• apocalypticat@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Pride: “equal rights for all”.

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

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    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.

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      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.

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        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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        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.

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      3 hours ago

      I want you to say the same thing about black history month so you can understand how ridiculous this is.

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    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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      And then like 3 people show up, because of course. They’re incels. They were never going to go anywhere.

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    13 hours ago

    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.

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    15 hours 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.

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    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.

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      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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        Or we can show up and convince them that there is an ongoing class war and politely let them know they’ve been used to fight themselves and that we have more people on our side of the class war.

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      I mean, my first thought was “Aww… sweety… yes, you are awesome. Have a cookie and let mommy watch her stories.”

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    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…?

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    16 hours ago

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

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      I’m hetero, but I’m also happily child free.

      But also I wouldn’t attend this event. If people want to be gay, be gay. If people want to be christian, be christian. If people want to be a dinosaur, be a dinosaur.

      I don’t give a fuck what other people do. As long as they’re respectful to everybody, and don’t hurt anybody, that’s cool. You be you.

      Except for Andy Dick, whose last name is apt.

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        False advertising! I want to be big strong fearsome dinosaur. Instead am fat disabled furry. 0/10 I’ll leave an angry review on yelp! And the bbb will be hearing about this!

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          Nah, liberal Christians that don’t foist their beliefs on others are cool. I used to hate Christians generally for the myriad harms that religion has caused. But I’ve learned humanity is plenty capable of being shitty to one another and justifying it regardless of the belief system.

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        Happy child free, may I ask how old you are roughly? Because to me it seems that this number and that happiness correlate strongly inversely. People are more and more lonely. Less family, fewer siblings, no children, …

        There sure are people of any age that are happy without children (or generally with or without anything). But since you mention this and me seeing that correlation: I have to ask. If you are 30 that is essential meaningless, like saying you do not care about pensions. If you are 60 both statements carry a lot more weight.

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          Fwiw, I have only one ‘real’/local/irl friend that has children. They have been living in hell, to put it bluntly, for the last… 14 years. Everyone else is in a much better state of mind and happiness, and without children… so you could say from my perspective, that number of offspring is inversely related to the enjoyment of life. We can, have, stand back and say ‘holy shit, fuck all that’ - and so far, the message has stuck with the rest of us.

          I feel sorry for the guy, I’ve known him for ~25 years, but he really could have solved many, many, many of life’s problems with the use of a few condoms. Like, so many… so fucking (heh) many. Now he’s stuck with a couple exs, a dead-end job, a couple of vehicles that are almost-literally falling apart, child support up to his eyeballs, and is headed towards his third bankruptcy. He nearly dragged me down trying to help him out financially. The rest of us are taking detailed notes of how life can go to shit with just one decision.

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          Nice anecdote. How about you give some data for that instead of making people tell you their anecdotal ages?