What do you think about pride month?

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[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 29 insightful - 2 fun29 insightful - 1 fun30 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I can't really add anything that hasn't been said here already, but opinions are free on the internet, so here we go.

  • I have never been to a pride parade, but when I see people parading around in fetish gear it makes me distinctly uncomfortable. Hasn't the LGB community spent decades trying to convince the general public that we aren't sexual deviants? Of course what consenting adults get up to behind closed doors is their own affair, but the classic 'I'm not homophobic but don't shove it down my throat' rings true when men are wandering around in jockstraps and those awful, creepy dog masks.

  • It has become diluted by all the gender nonsense. All these made up genders and sexualities read like a right-wing parody of what people think the LGB movement is about, and yet the truth is stranger than fiction. 'Grey Asexual demi-girl day of visibility'? Piss off and go back to Tumblr.

  • Corporate pandering makes the whole thing seem hollow. I'm not stupid enough to think that a trillion pound global financial services group actually cares about me and any issues I face, they just want me to think 'Ooh, Lloyds has a rainbow now, gosh, how relatable, maybe I'll bank with them now' and I get quite annoyed by the naive idiots who want more corporate woke virtual signalling. 'Microsoft hasn't released a statement in support of BLM!? Outrageous. Boycotting immediately.'

  • Finally, and perhaps most controversially, I don't think pride month is necessary. Being LGB is not as integral a part of my identity as people want it to be. Without sounding like a failed high-school poet, my identity and my sense of who I am is incredibly complex and built on many different pillars. I don't feel particularly 'proud' of being homosexual any more than I feel proud of being born where I was born, or speaking the language that I speak.

[–]CJLez 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Corporate pandering makes the whole thing seem hollow. I'm not stupid enough to think that a trillion pound global financial services group actually cares about me and any issues I face, they just want me to think 'Ooh, Lloyds has a rainbow now, gosh, how relatable, maybe I'll bank with them now'

The most annoying part for me are that people fall for this. You have corporations like Blizzard who will go all-out celebrating pride in countries like the US but literally change the sexualities of their characters to make them straight in countries like Russia and people will praise them for how wonderful they are for celebrating the 'queer community'.

If the pendulum somehow swung so severely that being LGB in the US was considered deviant by the majority population again you can bet these corporations would never turn up at a pride march again. Mind you, neither would 90% of the participats.

[–]fuck_reddit 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Who was it also, Bethesda? that changed all their logos to the rainbow flag except their Middle East and either Russia or Africa branches. Like performative woeness to the extreme.