If I saw this, I’d immediately assume it’s a variation on the bi pride flag.
“Nice flag. So you fellas go both ways?”
Missing the purple, though.
Having only two colors, clearly delineated, makes the flag worthless as a means of conveying anything, so they had to broadcast what it means with big, braindead-obvious symbols.
Frankly, that definitely looks like a straight pride flag, in that it’s boring, binary, with absolutely zero sense of style, subtlety, or iconography.
It looks like a flag for transphobic bisexuals who only date cis people who fall firmly within the gender binary.
Cute couple.
“So which one of you is the ‘girl’?”
The one on the right, don’t you see the flag?
My right or your right?
The far right
They’re both right.
You’re both right!
Isn’t being proud of your sexuality mostly a response to being shamed by bigots for your sexuality? Like: parts of society look down on my sexuality? Well fuck you, I’m proud of it! If you’re not being shamed at all, isn’t a bit weird to be proud of such things? As if you did anything to become a heterosexual. No one cares, nor should they.
Yeah, that is the whole point. The whole point is not “I am proud of who I am attracted to”, the point is “I am proud of being open about who I am attracted to despite the bigots and social challenges”.
Which is why there is no “straight pride”, “blond pride”, or “high school student pride”. There is no glory in doing something that is statistically speaking, completely devoid of interest…
Yeah, but the more we demonize normal people, the more interesting they become.
There is no glory in doing something that is statistically speaking, devoid of interest…
Wait, I thought this was about being proud of standing up to bigots?
Is it about being a statistical anomaly and special, or about being a progressive activist?
Cuz I’ll tell you what pride month is to me, as a straight man. Pride month is one of many placative gestures performed by corporations in order to manipulate my empathy into buying their products. It’s a nice set of makeup that corporations get to wear while you go out and suffer the consequences. You, as someone who is a part of the LGBTQ+ community, should be painfully aware of the damaging effects that corporate usage of the pride month aesthetic has had on public perception of the people in that group.
Yet, here you are. Concerned about establishing why you’re more fucking special than straight people.
No no, pride is not about being “special”. Nobody is special. It’s about people embracing who they are, despite having a tougher going than others.
It’s about not staying in the closet in a country with bigots. It’s about being a woman in a working culture that favours men. It’s about going to university in a country that favours manual labour. It’s about being trans… and daring to say out loud “this is not my gender”.
Being a white, straight, cis man is not very difficult. Being a non-white, straight, cis woman is statistically more common, but harder. Normally, “statistical anomalies” have a harder going, but this is definitely not about being special. It’s about being whoever you are, despite the adversity.
Also, to clarify - I haven’t mentioned anything about not being straight. My sexual orientation has nothing to do with my response.
Everything you’ve said I appreciate, I fully recognize that the LGTBQ+ community should be proud of itself for the reasons you’ve listed.
I also maintain that pride month has been perverted into something else by corporate interests. Mark my words, the longer the LGBTQ+ community adheres itself to corporations; the worse the inevitable damage will be. I have nothing else to add.
Corporations leech off cultures and communities, sure. but that doesnt have to devalue them. Its a separate issue entirely.
I disagree, when corporations have infinitely more reach and influence you have no hope of controlling any narrative they’re a part of.
They own pride month. The LGBTQ+ community does not.
Fundementally as long as pride month’s story is linked to stonewall and that story is always told, pride month will always have a bigger symbolism with the counterculture than any corporate influence.
There’s a reason American labor day explicitly does not happen in May.
So your saying I can be proud to be white then?
You can be proud about anything.
Most people are proud to be useful idiots, for example.
Ahh that’s me then!
Yup. This is essentially the same as people suddenly screaming about “WHITE PRIDE!!!” in response to things like Black Live Matter.
The entire point is a minority not letting the majority shame or otherize them. The the majority freaks out and responses with “ME TO BUT BETTER THAN YOU DID IT!”.
It’s pathetic.
I agree with your statement, but I would like to point out that “as if you did anything to become a heterosexual” is… yikes. That implies the LGBTQ+ community is not born how they are and have to do work to become lesbian, gay, bi, etc.
Diction is important; while that doesn’t ruin the overall argument for me because I am an ally, I don’t think that’s something to say going forward because it’s very easy to latch onto and discredit the argument as a whole.
I actually meant that as: as if you did anything to become a heterosexual/homosexual/any-kind-of-sexuality.
The two guys holding up the straight pride flag look like they unhappily fuck their wives at home once every quarter to prove that they don’t love the cocks that they shamefully suck every weekend.
They don’t look very proud.
You’re not wrong but all the gays I know have way better taste than that abomination.
They both look like they really hate this flag.
Gold?
You idiots! There’s nothing gayer than gold!
That’s not a “straight pride” flag, that’s a “doubling down on our anti-LGBTQ+ agenda because they dare to defy us with their own flag” flag. I’m straight, that flag does not represent me, it represents bigoted fucks. There are already several flags for that.
“There are already several flags for that.”
Yes. And in fact, a couple of those flags plagiarize ancient Hindu symbols… See if you can find which (hint: it’s not the lotus…)
When I learned about that one is when I figured out all symbolism of anything good is doomed to stray from it’s original meaning. Fools and assholes will ultimately adopt them in an attempt to appear more credible on the surface, when people start figuring them out, they associate that symbol with that behavior, and it’s game over. They do it to flags, religious totems, words, anything that might be able to grant them a benefit-of-the-doubt buff for a while.
The one from decades ago was fine and kind of funny actually - it was the gay one but grayscale. This one is shoplifting the trans colors. Also only chuds will ever fly this, so at least it functions as a do-not-interact signifier.
If the “stop calling me a homo” kid was a flag
Alex Jones and Andrew Tate have seen much better days…
Trojan…
I always thought it would be funny if “s” was added to “lgbtq” for straight.
Then when someone has a problem with “lgbtqs”, you can be like “you’re not straight?”
Why is this funny?
Makes it really easy to defeat their “you include everyone but us” argument and call homophobes gay at the same time.
Like when a homophobe says they hate lgbtqs, you can respond as if they are saying they hate straight people.
That’s not worth it at all lol
2-Spirit already took the S, lol.
*in Canada (and perhaps parts of the US? not sure)
They totally finger blasted each other after this
if you fuck under the straight flag it’s like super no homo
That’s where the no homo chant comes in.
I thought the chant was
“Bro job! Bro job! Bro job!”
Only if you wear the flag like a cape.
