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[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I get the feeling but don't agree about this flag. It means something else when we cede it. So don't.

I do feel this way about the 500 other flags that have tried to supersede it.

So I don't really get this sort of defeatist thinking. Why surrender?

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I never felt a connection to the rainbow flag, probably because of internalised homophobia and my general belief in down-head-keeping and on-with-getting. It always struck me as a little loud and, frankly, unnecessary.

But the author is right, I now have even less inclination to associate myself with the rainbow flag, especially since the Rainbow Reich got their acrylic claws on it, and corporate pinkwashing is so trendy nowadays.

[–]Dadscloaca 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Honestly, the rainbow flag was always kind of dumb.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This explanation of what the colors mean might be interesting.

https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-the-rainbow-flag-become-a-symbol-of-lgbt-pride

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

"The good gays who now claim that flag as their own are the ones that have bought into the strict ideology that is working against the interests of same sex attracted men and women. They are the ones that will post historical revisionism that erases lesbians from the Stonewall riots and replaces them with a transwoman who according to his own account was neither trans and was not there. The good gays circle the bad gays and punish them, call them names, and threaten them with rape or violence simply because we will not be gaslit into sleeping with the opposite sex. Yes, we have the receipts, and the lesbians have been complaining about this for years."

More on Link.

[–]pacsatonifil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hello no! I’m flying that homosexual symbol of love and hope in June!

[–]Retardation_station 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hate to break it to you, but the rainbow symbolism was old before the LGB began using it.

Like, old testament, old.