Petition to Ben "Queer" Flags

[SourdoughMama]

I'm not entirely sure I personally endorse this, and in any case I think doing a gov UK petition would force me to out myself.

But given the Governments action against Palestine Action, Shouldn't we consider ( or at least talk about ) banning these misogynist homophobic religious flags?

I think everyone here recognises the harm done by gender ideology,

Firstly, I don't know how i feel about this, a friend showed me a video of some American Politico saying they should declared Antifa and Transgenderism as terrorist organisations.

Transgenderism isn't an organisation though.

I want to make some points though :
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you say " People are still free to fly Palestinian flags, wear keffiyeh" - yes, but isn't there a debate that exists around the hajib and other forms of wear as misogynist oppression?

Debate sure, but we haven't banned the hajib here in the UK.

"Are you suggesting that the displaying of any and all queer flags is supporting a specific proscribed terrorist organisation?" aren't those wearing and flying the trans flag promoting homophobic and misogynist hate?

Are they though? I know that we see TRAs carrying signs calling for violence, and have all read enough of the MRA arguments here to know the ideology is inherently homophobic and misogynist, but that doesn't mean that every person with a trans identity is homophobic or misogynist. I see a lot of vulnerable or traumatised young people who aren't homophobic or misogynist (or the misogyny is internalised misogyny in the young girls), these young people have been lead up the garden path.

Edited because I posted earlier by accident without adding my comments.

It’s not the flags that do the harm. Banning symbols just feeds persecution complexes.

I've just used the advanced search function and now I'm wondering too, I thought at first it was maybe someone who just hadn't really thought this through and had overreacted, but I think it's possible I might have been wrong about that.

No, I think this is a bad idea.

They are stupid flags imo but I think people can put them up if they want to.

It's a bit differernt than the flag of a terrorist organisation (whether anyone agrees or not about particular organisations I think a terrorist flag might be reasonable to ban.).

There’s a gender critical flag now? Are you sure you’re not just imagining things there?

Maybe they mean the suffragette colours? I’d really hope that GC women are far too sensible to want another bloody flag.

Re the OP, are they from the US? Hopefully not posted in bad faith to smear FWR.

There is absolutely no reason to ban the trans flag or its many ridiculous variations. The way forward is with facts, evidence and reason.

Agree with this though: I'd like to see the LGB community reclaim the rainbow flag at some point though.

Depends which Ben, I'd imagine?

In Scotland, Bens are mountains. So one could put a flag on a Ben, but not the other way round.

OP, this is daft.

Tbh the suggestion of banning a RSOH flag is the ultimate catnip for any TRA/teenage kid.

No need to ban any flag. Let misogynists and homophobes out themselves in this way, if they need to, rather than with violence.

Let's just KBO.

(And obviously if any Ben is going on a flag it's Ben Cooper.... no debate)

A flag with a wren! On top of a Ben.

I'm imagining the flag wrapped around the cartoon character Mr Ben. It would make perfect sense. Pretty sure he fancied the shopkeeper, and also that there were lots of 'dressing-up adventures' that didn't make it into the kids' TV series.

(On a more serious note, the suggestion in the OP is so weird and extreme that I think it may be designed to incite intolerance and make MN look ridiculous. )

Having seen the OP's contributions on at least one other thread, I think you have hit the nail on the head.

Palestine Action are a violent terrorist organisation whose actions, among other things, include attacking police officers with sledgehammers. The LGBT flag, while distasteful, is not in the same league.

It is under the 'progressive' (if ever there is an oxymoron, this is it!) flag and especially the transgender flag that crowds are whipped up to 'punch a terf' and do all sorts of violence to women and girls. Personally I agree they should be declared terrorist flags and banned. But it's never going to happen, so trying to ban them is a waste of time. What we'd like, and what will actually happen are two entirely different things.

I'd imagine people would assume you were either GC, or possibly less accurately, homophobic if you raised such a petition.

If it's to point out the injustice of banning Palestine flags, then two wrongs don't make a right do they?

Oh dear OP you’ll have to think of something a bit more creative to get screenshots from. And maybe proof read before posting next time too.