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[–] sircac@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Sounds like some insecurities need reaffirmation...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

It would be great to see them do this, march around with their "straight pride" bullshit, only to have the LGBTQ+ community cheering them on with signs about the first amendment and acceptance.

Really drill into anyone who hasn't been paying attention, who the good guys and bad guys here are.

Probably a pipe dream since this would 100% be more about hate than acceptance.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Being a bit of a pragmatist.

I'm probably as liberal as they come but I'm also older. When I do vote compasses I'm always square in the social and fiscal liberal columns.

That said, I am friends with people from all walks of life and I can tell you the general consensus is that things have swung too far to the left and what we are seeing is a swing back to the right. It's all a pendulum. I've had this conversation with pretty much every one from every background so it's not just a white people thing. People need to understand that people from many different backgrounds being their own flavour of hatred and bigotry to the conversation. Asians are notoriously racist. Black people are notoriously homophobic (my African girlfriend doesn't like my earrings or the fact I wear colourful socks for Christsake).

What truly amazes me is how fast and how hard the pendulum has swung the other direction in America and damn does it not look good. In Canada it's swinging right but far more measured and the hope is not much farther.

Even as progressive as I am my daughter has an after school program called "Girls Inc" and I have thought to myself why don't my sons have a Boys Inc to which the response in my head is it's still a mans world and if I tried to make one I'd be accused of something negative I'm sure so I never pursue it.

I will say right now if the expression is "a rising tide lifts all ships" we have not been paying adequate attention to the ships that are not rising as fast or as much. This is what is causing the pendulum swings IMHO and without addressing the deep underlying and systemic issues it's only going to get worse.

[–] Rustic_Fry@literature.cafe 18 points 1 day ago

Grinder crashes immediately

[–] apocalypticat@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pride: "equal rights for all".

Straight pride: "all people are equal, but straights are more equal than others".

[–] Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These things always feel like someone shouting “I have a birthday too!“ at someone else’s birthday party.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

I like that analogy, might use it one day (⁀ᗢ⁀)

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 141 points 2 days ago (4 children)

That's the gayest sounding name for a festival.

[–] choking_the_dolphin@lemmynsfw.com 72 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Three cool dudes looking for other cool dudes who wanna hang out in their party mansion. Nothing sexual. Fitness encouraged. If you’re fat, you should be able to find humor in the little things. Again, nothing sexual.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That should be on a flyer, but it should have an attention grabbing shape. Like maybe a bicept.

[–] Postingllamas@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Don't forget the veins

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[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 134 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Gonna be a lot of gross people that no one wants to fuck at that event.

I guarantee it.

[–] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yep as a queer I wish to reassure them, I wouldn't touch any of them with a pole

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What if they fuck each other?

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 64 points 2 days ago (4 children)

That's... how Conservatives are made.

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while talking about how not gay it is

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[–] Allero 37 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Honestly, if done without any hate to LGBTQ+, I'm all for it. We need a nice hetero representation, and hetero relationships are beautiful. This does include trans people forming hetero couples, and hetero-demi-/asexuals, and many more, so it can even intersect with LGBTQ+ in some cases.

All relationships and sexualities are beautiful, and hetero ones are no exception.

But I doubt it'll be done this way.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

the point of pride is it’s about visibility: relationships in pop culture are almost entirely hetero… you just don’t see queer relationships at the ratio they exist in society… pride is all about celebrating the existence of queer existence and our relationships and culture

if you add similar things for heterosexuals, it’s saying “we have everything most of the time and this 1 time where you’re seen, we want to be part of that as well”… or worse, want to draw attention away from it by being bigger

[–] Allero 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I agree that hetero relationships get quite a lot of visibility, but it gets little positivity, which some people are quite sensitive to, especially among teenagers. Also, it enforces LGBTQ+ and cishets as two opposing sides, which they are not.

Faced with (undoubtedly important) messages about how queer folks and their relationships are awesome and worthy of appraisal and attention, some of the hetero teens and even adults feel left out, like they're not "cool" for just being the default.

Obviously, they are no less cool than anyone else, and their relationships are no less beautiful. And we need to talk about that too, in no way to silence the rest, but to underscore that truly any relation to gender and sexuality is equally valuable. The very pushback on LGBTQ+ is partly fueled by the resentment for this lack of hetero positivity, and we need to remove any ground for it.

LGBTQ+ and cishets are not on the opposite sides, they are all parts of the same spectrum, and so any confrontations between the two are as odd as bisexuals attacking homosexuals. To translate this idea, we should include cishets into the same positivity movement, while remembering the groups inside LGBTQ+ are still unjustly discriminated against.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

We (white people) gave black people the shortest and shittiest month to celebrate their heritage which a segment of us still bitch about them celebrating a month meanwhile bitch every month is White Heritage Month and this is what a large segment of the population feels and you cannot argue with feelings.

Why do they feel this way? Let's get to that and work to solve the problem.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

id be ok with it as long as they don't push it in my face

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't want to walk past and see them holding hands or anything

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Holding hands implies they're trying to have sex. A penis, in a vagina? How do I explain that to my 4 year old?

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'd say, if hetero people need an excuse to have fun and celebrate something, I'm all for it. But I have a sneaky suspicion that this is going just going to be used as a hatefest towards LGBTQ+ people instead. I would love to be proven wrong but I have a feeling that straight cis people who are open minded and accepting and not bigots, aren't the ones who feel the need to go "what about straight pride / international men's day?" whenever anyone else gets a bit of attention.

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm cis-het and fully intend to go to the pride parade with friends in a different state. It's going to be a great time! Idk why the largest groups feel like they need extra special attention.

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[–] Allero 7 points 2 days ago

On the other hand, the concerns themselves are real, and if they will be addressed in a way positive to everyone else, this will be great!

So, we'll see. Under current administration, the risks for it derailing into the hate fest are quite high, but fingers crossed.

[–] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most likely no one shows up.

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[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It sounds like the most cringe thing ever. So yeah, let them do it, I wanna see it (mostly to point and laugh).

[–] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'll see you there! I'll be the one snogging random women while wrapped in a pride flag

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago

I mean, ok. Pride isn't exclusionary. Most gay people have straight parents, siblings, friends and so on. If you feel the need to celebrate being straight, that's cool. If you think you're a victim because you are straight then I might suggest some therapy.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hundred bucks says the grinder app's going to get a lot of traffic that weekend. There's going to be very busy bus station bathrooms, and maybe Airport bathrooms? I don't know if they have airports in Idaho.

[–] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yep profile name "ImNotGay69" and will cry when he finishes

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

is it just a bunch of white guys standing around talking about how potato's are neat

[–] Eggyhead@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago

Fuck. Now I want potatoes.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You know what would be the fucking best thing ever? If everyone showed up and was totally supportive. Like those hateful bigots are all marching and hollering and then here comes the pride parade with hetero banners and signs saying "Heteros Are Awesome!" and other really positive shit. And they'll be all like "We don't want your support," and we'll be like "Fuck you, pride is for all!" And maybe like one or two of them would be like, "Oh..." and then the world is a better place for a moment.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For a moment I thought you were headed inthe direction of LGBTQ rebranding "All Lives Matter".

Like some hateful biggot is chanting "DOWN WITH QUEERS" and then the Pride Parade marches in, and starts supporting them. And the hate parade tries to resist, and then the Pride people start saying they love everybody, and ALL lives matter. And then the hateful side says "WAIT! NO! THATS OURS, AND IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT!" And then the Pride people say "Too late! We've rebranded it now! We love you, baby!" And the hateful people are just confused like "what.....what just happened??"

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[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He, more like hetero sausage fest

Ayooo

my wife came up with this

[–] Luouth@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This sounds like something a group of Incels would plan to get their buttocks to accidentally touch the buttocks of another young man.

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 25 points 2 days ago

I'm a straight dude and would love to socially meet more hetero women... but this sounds like the lamest and (ironically) gayest event I've ever heard of. Guaranteed it's going to be filled with ugly, un-fun, angry people counter-protesting. You know the type, critically concerned with what the fuck other consenting adults do...?

[–] Gowron_Howard@lemm.ee 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Honestly, there’s no punchline better than this just being a thing.

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 23 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Straight people celebrating being the ones to perpetuate the human race give argument for not perpetuating the human race

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

My generation called that kind of party a “sausage fest.”

And not the fun kind.

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Fyre Festival 3? They didn't even have 2 yet

[–] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I’ve never seen it, but I’m already sure their flag sucks.

[–] Frog@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They hate rainbows so it's just a white flag.

They should name it the White Pride Parade.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago

Actually, there has been a straight ally flag for quite a while now it's not bad straight ally flag

So i looked it up and that without the rainbow 'a' is actually on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_flag

It's resemblance to old prison uniforms is quite ironic:

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[–] missingno@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago

"No hate at all, it's a love thing."

But also LGTBQ+ people are "disgusting and criminal".

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