#HetrosexualPrideDay

[happyninja42]

The problem is that it's still celebrating someone else, and that seems to be the big thing. Pride celebrates the LGBT community, and it seems like that offends a lot of straight people.

I may be going out on a limb here, but I'd wager most straight people aren't offended by that.

Depends on what you mean by "a lot". 5000 people is "a lot" to me, but that still might only be a fraction of one percent of the population in question.

Note: quoting is acting weird today, so couldn't put these 2 posts in one thread and make it look accurate, so 2 posts instead. Sorry.

 

[wulf3n]

Depends on what you mean by "a lot". 5000 people is "a lot" to me, but that still might only be a fraction of one percent of the population in question.

It certainly raises an interesting point.

While 5000 may be the barest of factions with regards to the entire population of the United States of America (322,762,018)

If you are only exposed to X number of people and they all exhibit a certain behaviour, for all intents and purposes the majority exhibit said behaviour, and what others think is ultimately irrelevant.

That being said, it doesn't mean it's true for all.

Certainly a complex situation.

 

[Something Amyss]

I've never understood this. I've been to several gay bars over the years, and while I was probably the only straight guy there (that I knew of anyway), I hardly felt weird, or well, no weirder than I would feel at any club.

I know you qualified it with that you know of, but I'd almost guarantee you weren't the only straight person there.

It was actually really funny watching the guys' reactions when I would tell them I was straight, they'd do a mental double take, and you could see the "Straight guy in gay club? Does not compute!" expression pass across their faces.

Well, given how often they're exposed to massive insecurity, I imagine it does seem surprising.

I may be going out on a limb here, but I'd wager most straight people aren't offended by that.

Doesn't matter. We were talking about the people who complain about Pride, and the petulant "why isn't there a straight pride day?" mentality. This should be well-established contextually. What you have done, rather than address the issue, is basically say #notallmen. And that's particularly unnecessary, since I was quoting straight people who clearly don't feel that way.

Most straight people don't go out and complain about Pride in the first place, I imagine. We're nmot talking about them, because they're not the problem. At least, not here. They could be serial killers, puppy kickers, or mattress-tag-rippers for all I know.

 

[wulf3n]

Doesn't matter. We were talking about the people who complain about Pride, and the petulant "why isn't there a straight pride day?" mentality. This should be well-established contextually. What you have done, rather than address the issue, is basically say #notallmen. And that's particularly unnecessary, since I was quoting straight people who clearly don't feel that way.

What I was referring to specifically was the notion of "a lot".

I don't doubt there are those who find said behaviour offensive, but wether it's "a lot" is a bit more questionable.

 

[FalloutJack]

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Funny, but no. You see, homosexuality has been persecuted for years while hetrosexuality has been rampant forever. So, any case where hetrosexuality feels threatened means that people are really losing their grip, whereas that sortof thing has been normal for the other party without being paranoid.

 

[happyninja42]

I've never understood this. I've been to several gay bars over the years, and while I was probably the only straight guy there (that I knew of anyway), I hardly felt weird, or well, no weirder than I would feel at any club.

I know you qualified it with that you know of, but I'd almost guarantee you weren't the only straight person there.

Probably not. Not that I care if I was the only straight guy there or not, I wasn't under any allusion of being "converted to the gay" by being in close proximity to them. My love of vaginas is too deeply rooted to even worry about that. All I know is all the guys I did talk to while I was there were gay, or at least bi.

It was actually really funny watching the guys' reactions when I would tell them I was straight, they'd do a mental double take, and you could see the "Straight guy in gay club? Does not compute!" expression pass across their faces.

Well, given how often they're exposed to massive insecurity, I imagine it does seem surprising.

I didn't say surprising, I said amusing. They were more offput by my presence there than I was. It didn't last long after the initial gear shifting in their heads, but it was still amusing to watch. Though they might've been partly confused by who I was back then. I was...well I wouldn't say frequently mistaken for gay, but it was not uncommon for gay guys to hit on me, and then be surprised when I told them I was straight. This is out in public mind you, not specifically in a gay club. So apparently I gave off a false positive when I was younger on a lot of guys gaydar. *shrugs* Apparently being comfortable around them, and genuinely not giving a shit who they had sex with, and being comfortable enough to joke with them about such things = gay guy to many of them. At least back in the 90's early 2000's.

 

[ThatOtherGirl]

Doesn't matter. We were talking about the people who complain about Pride, and the petulant "why isn't there a straight pride day?" mentality. This should be well-established contextually. What you have done, rather than address the issue, is basically say #notallmen. And that's particularly unnecessary, since I was quoting straight people who clearly don't feel that way.

What I was referring to specifically was the notion of "a lot".

I don't doubt there are those who find said behaviour offensive, but wether it's "a lot" is a bit more questionable.

If we are answering the question of how many heterosexual people complain about pride day, if we consider the last 15 years it is the vast majority of heterosexual people I know. Almost all of them made at least one comment about how it is "disgusting" or something like that. My parents, my siblings, every important adult I knew who ever said an thing on the subject. Most of my friends. Everyone at work and church.

It is better now, but it isn't gone.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I never got pride about sexuality, since people are just born as it, it isn't like they did something to earn it. It'd be like having blond hair or tall legs pride days. Being proud over something you chanced into is just dumb and arrogant. Be proud of your achievements.

But it IS about achievements. Its not really merely about being gay, but about being yourself despite adversity. About getting to where we are now compared to where we were. It would be like criticizing Black History month as merely celebrating being black. Did you know its in Febraury cause its when Lincoln and Frederick Douglas was born? Its about celebrating humanity, since before Lincoln, in the US, black people were not considered human, but property.

If people are considered inhuman or lesser for being blonde or having long legs, and then they work to make that change, then they would have an understandable celebration too.

Its dumb and arrogant to ignore history.

First and foremost, I never specified I talked about gay pride. It is interesting how in a topic about straight pride, you took me to be talking about gay pride. Being honest, I was addressing both, equally, as that is the way to paving true lack of discrimination, you may wanna examine why you only saw me talking about gay pride here.

Not all gay or black people had to go through equal hardship to simply be themselves. A gay guy in LA will have a much easier life than one in the bible belt. You ape the difference and equalize everything in an irrational way with your approach.

Black people always were human despite what a portion of primitive conquerors thought of them btw, the way you put it sounds like hey were given humanity by benevolent white people who decided to do so one day, which....is quite offensive to celebrate. No, they always were human, they just lost wars and had to endure the hardships that all human war losers endured since history immemorial, whch includes being treated inhumanely cause you should have been dead for losing so your life is already forfeit. It is actually surprisingly unoriginal, and not limited to black folks either.

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

Come on guys, let's just all admit that both groups have come under hardship in their time. Gay people have been put to death, castrated, forbid to marry or engage in sexual relations, and fired if their sexuality is revealed for thousands of years only having improved in the last couple decades, and straight people are forced to read someone on Tumblr saying they're terrible every once in a while.

Both groups are entitled to an occasion to tell the world they have the right to exist and express their sexuality no matter how much the world (or the occasional person on Tumblr) tells them they shouldn't

As an aside, I want to congratulate whoever came up with this on the classiness of starting it weeks after the largest mass murder in the history of the US targets a gay nightclub. This is a time for straight people to be strong and united

 

[Saelune]

I never got pride about sexuality, since people are just born as it, it isn't like they did something to earn it. It'd be like having blond hair or tall legs pride days. Being proud over something you chanced into is just dumb and arrogant. Be proud of your achievements.

But it IS about achievements. Its not really merely about being gay, but about being yourself despite adversity. About getting to where we are now compared to where we were. It would be like criticizing Black History month as merely celebrating being black. Did you know its in Febraury cause its when Lincoln and Frederick Douglas was born? Its about celebrating humanity, since before Lincoln, in the US, black people were not considered human, but property.

If people are considered inhuman or lesser for being blonde or having long legs, and then they work to make that change, then they would have an understandable celebration too.

Its dumb and arrogant to ignore history.

First and foremost, I never specified I talked about gay pride. It is interesting how in a topic about straight pride, you took me to be talking about gay pride. Being honest, I was addressing both, equally, as that is the way to paving true lack of discrimination, you may wanna examine why you only saw me talking about gay pride here.

Not all gay or black people had to go through equal hardship to simply be themselves. A gay guy in LA will have a much easier life than one in the bible belt. You ape the difference and equalize everything in an irrational way with your approach.

Black people always were human despite what a portion of primitive conquerors thought of them btw, the way you put it sounds like hey were given humanity by benevolent white people who decided to do so one day, which....is quite offensive to celebrate. No, they always were human, they just lost wars and had to endure the hardships that all human war losers endured since history immemorial, whch includes being treated inhumanely cause you should have been dead for losing so your life is already forfeit. It is actually surprisingly unoriginal, and not limited to black folks either.

The discussion has been about "straight pride" vs "gay pride" for pages now, don't act like I'm being presumptuous.

And you really just want to belittle the advances in equality, don't you? Yes, black people were always people, when they were sold to Europeans by their fellow Africans, and all the time before and after then. And being gay was never actually a mental illness, but it was treated as such for a long time. The celebration part is for the wider recognition of such, usually by government powers. Even if the average person doesn't care for you, not having the law against you is a pretty big deal.

No, not all gay people or black people went through the same hardships. Nor did all Jews get thrown into German internment camps, nor all Americans ignored or shot at by the British, or Armenians killed by ottomans or Turks, etc. Hell, most people in the US aren't New Yorkers, but 9/11 is still a big deal to them.

But I suppose you are allowed to miss the entire point of this discussion.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I never got pride about sexuality, since people are just born as it, it isn't like they did something to earn it. It'd be like having blond hair or tall legs pride days. Being proud over something you chanced into is just dumb and arrogant. Be proud of your achievements.

But it IS about achievements. Its not really merely about being gay, but about being yourself despite adversity. About getting to where we are now compared to where we were. It would be like criticizing Black History month as merely celebrating being black. Did you know its in Febraury cause its when Lincoln and Frederick Douglas was born? Its about celebrating humanity, since before Lincoln, in the US, black people were not considered human, but property.

If people are considered inhuman or lesser for being blonde or having long legs, and then they work to make that change, then they would have an understandable celebration too.

Its dumb and arrogant to ignore history.

First and foremost, I never specified I talked about gay pride. It is interesting how in a topic about straight pride, you took me to be talking about gay pride. Being honest, I was addressing both, equally, as that is the way to paving true lack of discrimination, you may wanna examine why you only saw me talking about gay pride here.

Not all gay or black people had to go through equal hardship to simply be themselves. A gay guy in LA will have a much easier life than one in the bible belt. You ape the difference and equalize everything in an irrational way with your approach.

Black people always were human despite what a portion of primitive conquerors thought of them btw, the way you put it sounds like hey were given humanity by benevolent white people who decided to do so one day, which....is quite offensive to celebrate. No, they always were human, they just lost wars and had to endure the hardships that all human war losers endured since history immemorial, whch includes being treated inhumanely cause you should have been dead for losing so your life is already forfeit. It is actually surprisingly unoriginal, and not limited to black folks either.

The discussion has been about "straight pride" vs "gay pride" for pages now, don't act like I'm being presumptuous.

And you really just want to belittle the advances in equality, don't you? Yes, black people were always people, when they were sold to Europeans by their fellow Africans, and all the time before and after then. And being gay was never actually a mental illness, but it was treated as such for a long time. The celebration part is for the wider recognition of such, usually by government powers. Even if the average person doesn't care for you, not having the law against you is a pretty big deal.

No, not all gay people or black people went through the same hardships. Nor did all Jews get thrown into German internment camps, nor all Americans ignored or shot at by the British, or Armenians killed by ottomans or Turks, etc. Hell, most people in the US aren't New Yorkers, but 9/11 is still a big deal to them.

But I suppose you are allowed to miss the entire point of this discussion.

The fact remains I was talking about both prides, equally chastizing both, not just the gay one.


How does one belittle the advances of equality by acknowledging that equality should have been the obvious thing and only primitive ignorance which was shared by all groups of people living in that era is to blame.


I just see it in the context of it being something human civilization achieved by advancing its culture. Celebrating that and being proud of it is not the same. It'd be like being proud you got antibodies and can't catch the chickenpocks a second time.


Ultimately, I just don't see it as a gay issue, being not dumb enough to make life hard for a group of innocent people is good for the person who once did the harm too, and equally worth being happy over.

 

[Leg End]

....your avatar...it....it disturbs me. I...don't know why.

Haha, I know right!

I've seen people with avatars on this forum that are gifs from a hentai where some crazy eyed alien woman literally eats the guy she was about to have sex with...and yet...your thing...I...I won't sleep tonight. It's going to follow me into my dreams

YOU'VE DESTROYED MY MIND WITH THAT ABOMINATION!

I apologise. I saw it on one of the facebook things where it's like "tag a mate who eats like this" and immediately thought "I must have this!".

Just thought I'd chime in and say I'm about 90% sure it's from a Nicktoons short from around the mid 2000s.
I miss those days.

EDIT: Yup, Purple and Brown.

 

[9tailedflame]

As an immigrant, when a racist fool tells me to go back home, I just respond, "FINE!! I'll go back to my island of sun, sea, sand and fucking relaxation." Dumbass.

Congratulations you horny hetros. You finally get a day to yourself. To celebrate your rageing genitals and 30sec thrusting. I mean, straight people have had it tough these past couple of decades, maybe even centuries. Having people speaking to the opposite sex, being civil around the opposite sex, trying to avoid being "friendzoned". The struggle is real, man.

I mean, hetros cant even show any signs of affection to their other half without verbal abuse thrown at them, they struggle to marry the one they love and the most recent issue surrounding bathrooms.

I mean... could you image the opposite sex sharing bathrooms with them? Thats like, totally eww. Men will just mess it up more and the women will be disgusted. And dont get them started on the whole toilet lid war. Up or down, up or down. The war is real, man.

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Parasondox here with a very special nessage for you folk. Either social media is bored or just running out of ideas but this shit is funny in a stupid way. Or stupid in a funny way. I am a trained professional dumbass who is willing to take the risk of being unfunny. So please be responsible and don't try this at home.

Thank you.

We get it, you're prejudice against heterosexual people, the proper response is actually to try and fix yourself so you aren't prejudice though, instead of parade how much of a hateful bigot you are.

I mean to be fair, there are some very legitimate criticisms to be made about heterosexual courtship rituals and the overall relationship between heterosexual males and heterosexual females, sure, there can be lack of respect on either side, gold digging and dehumanizing behavior, miscommunication and sexual incompatibility, it's why i'm single, but what you're doing is kicking people while they're down. I don't want to be a virgin despite being tall and handsome because straight women are absurdly hostile to potential suitors so I'm afraid to try. I'd love to be gay, i could have sex with people who i could be on equal terms with, who wouldn't pressure me to get married after 2 good dates and then try to take all my money, and the people who would hate me for being gay already hate me for being an atheist, so it's not like I'd be garnering that much more hate, and i could have a better sense of what my partner wanted sexually, instead i'm stuck with internet porn forever despite having above average physical assets.

Where on the other hand the concept of a heterosexual pride day is a petty passive aggressive concept used to reinforce the cultural dominance of straight people who wish to marginalize GSM folk.

It could be that - doesn't mean it has to be. It could just be a 'Yay Us!' type of thing.

Except it's not a 'Yay Us!' type of thing, it's coming of a place of competitiveness towards the GSM community, with the intention of lessening the importance of LGBT pride events. It's basically a means of being dismissive towards the whole concept outside of gay pride. As a 'Yay Us!' type thing it's meaningless, useless, and pointless, because cisgender heterosexual people haven't been told to be ashamed of their sexual orientation or gender identity for their entirelives. GSM folk have and being told to be ashamed of ourselves for arbitrary things we can't help is still a pervasive part of culture today.

Actually, there's still huge levels of shame associated with any sexuality really. Straight women might have slut shaming worse than anyone, since for straight men, and homosexual people, at least there's a sense that you could congratulate each other for successfully finding someone to have sex with, while straight women are viscous to each other in this regard, and straight men are taught that their sexuality is violent and wrong pretty regularly, media shows rape all the time, and it's almost exclusively man on woman, and straight men have been taught that any time you approach a woman in a sexual context, you could be committing a crime, even something so banal as asking if she want to you back to your place could be considered sexual harassment. It's sort of along the same lines, but not as intensely, as being African American, you're kind-of assumed guilty, wrong, and a predator by default.

I mean the overall view of LGBT people is worse, but the idea that there's any sexuality that society is completely accepting of is pretty much just wrong.

 

[Parasondox]

As an immigrant, when a racist fool tells me to go back home, I just respond, "FINE!! I'll go back to my island of sun, sea, sand and fucking relaxation." Dumbass.

Congratulations you horny hetros. You finally get a day to yourself. To celebrate your rageing genitals and 30sec thrusting. I mean, straight people have had it tough these past couple of decades, maybe even centuries. Having people speaking to the opposite sex, being civil around the opposite sex, trying to avoid being "friendzoned". The struggle is real, man.

I mean, hetros cant even show any signs of affection to their other half without verbal abuse thrown at them, they struggle to marry the one they love and the most recent issue surrounding bathrooms.

I mean... could you image the opposite sex sharing bathrooms with them? Thats like, totally eww. Men will just mess it up more and the women will be disgusted. And dont get them started on the whole toilet lid war. Up or down, up or down. The war is real, man.

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Parasondox here with a very special nessage for you folk. Either social media is bored or just running out of ideas but this shit is funny in a stupid way. Or stupid in a funny way. I am a trained professional dumbass who is willing to take the risk of being unfunny. So please be responsible and don't try this at home.

Thank you.

We get it, you're prejudice against heterosexual people, the proper response is actually to try and fix yourself so you aren't prejudice though, instead of parade how much of a hateful bigot you are.

I mean to be fair, there are some very legitimate criticisms to be made about heterosexual courtship rituals and the overall relationship between heterosexual males and heterosexual females, sure, there can be lack of respect on either side, gold digging and dehumanizing behavior, miscommunication and sexual incompatibility, it's why i'm single, but what you're doing is kicking people while they're down. I don't want to be a virgin despite being tall and handsome because straight women are absurdly hostile to potential suitors so I'm afraid to try. I'd love to be gay, i could have sex with people who i could be on equal terms with, who wouldn't pressure me to get married after 2 good dates and then try to take all my money, and the people who would hate me for being gay already hate me for being an atheist, so it's not like I'd be garnering that much more hate, and i could have a better sense of what my partner wanted sexually, instead i'm stuck with internet porn forever despite having above average physical assets.

If that was a joke, then well done sir or madame.

If that weren't a joke then... you and many people here took my thread too fucking seriously. We are on 9 pages. 9!! Going back and forth, back and forth on the same thing and...

Why do I bother. This will either be ignored or just throw slurs. Thanks team.

 

[shrekfan246]

I'd love to be gay, i could have sex with people who i could be on equal terms with, who wouldn't pressure me to get married after 2 good dates and then try to take all my money, and the people who would hate me for being gay already hate me for being an atheist, so it's not like I'd be garnering that much more hate, and i could have a better sense of what my partner wanted sexually, instead i'm stuck with internet porn forever despite having above average physical assets.

Wow. You seem to have some very skewed perceptions of heterosexual relationships. Maybe ease off the internet porn a bit?

There are tons of women (in fact, I dare say probably the majority who aren't ardently religious, and probably even some who are, though obviously there are always exceptions) who wouldn't pressure for marriage "after 2 good dates". And marriage is not all about "trying to take all [your] money". And if you don't think you can be on equal terms with a woman... why not? They're half of the human race. They really aren't some magical alien species that is completely unfathomable to the male mind, literally all you need to do is actually listen and pay attention to them. You might find that women are actually pretty happy to let you know what they like and don't, and that it doesn't tend to be all that different from what men like because, hey, they're people too.

 

[johnnyboy2537]

I think the whole thing is hilarious. Considering it's just trolling SJWs and I love to see those bastards show their true colors I'm all for it. Even it wasn't we cocksuckers get how many stupid pride parades and awareness days? I couldn't care less about it if it was legit but since it's making the right people angry I love it.

 

[happyninja42]

Just thought I'd chime in and say I'm about 90% sure it's from a Nicktoons short from around the mid 2000s.
I miss those days.

EDIT: Yup, Purple and Brown.

Knowing the source doesn't make it any less disturbing!! xD

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

Actually, there's still huge levels of shame associated with any sexuality really. Straight women might have slut shaming worse than anyone, since for straight men, and homosexual people, at least there's a sense that you could congratulate each other for successfully finding someone to have sex with, while straight women are viscous to each other in this regard, and straight men are taught that their sexuality is violent and wrong pretty regularly, media shows rape all the time, and it's almost exclusively man on woman, and straight men have been taught that any time you approach a woman in a sexual context, you could be committing a crime, even something so banal as asking if she want to you back to your place could be considered sexual harassment. It's sort of along the same lines, but not as intensely, as being African American, you're kind-of assumed guilty, wrong, and a predator by default.

I mean the overall view of LGBT people is worse, but the idea that there's any sexuality that society is completely accepting of is pretty much just wrong.

No there aren't huge levels of shame associated with heterosexual sexuality...

While slut shaming is an issue, it's mostly an expression of either; possessiveness, cliquishness, religious extremism, or sexual insecurity... For the most part though, since at least the 1990's the concept of a woman being sexually liberated has been at worst an artifact of sexism, but is usually empowerment... Mind you that media is something like three decades behind the common culture. In the first case, that's an expression of toxic masculinity and sexism, revolving around the idea that women have no bodily autonomy, or sexual freedom, and are property. The second is an expression of the status heavy sexualized world women have to operate in, which links back to the first point. The third is an expression of repression as a method of violating people's rights... The last is an expression of again sexism regarding the sexual prowess and sexual preference of men. They all call back to a toxic masculine idea that women hate sex and a man is only a man when he conquers a woman... All of which are failing ideas in modern society.

The concept that male sexuality is "violent"? Again a concept of toxic masculinity, which states that women only submit to males for sex for the sake of survival. Really since the sexual liberation of the 1910s, 1920s, 1960s, and 1970s... The idea that all male sexuality is an assault? Well in media that's pretty much restricted to Law and Order: SVU... In a social setting? That's pretty much a limited idea of sexist internet "MRAs" and militant lesbian extremist feminists... In common culture, hook ups between consenting heterosexual adults is perfectly acceptable, except to repressed idiots with unhealthy ideas about sex. That's to the point where "wanna come back to my place?" was an acceptable code word for "wanna have sex" under the code for films in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s...

On the other hand? Homosexual sexuality is still absolutely taboo today, unless it's lesbian, which is "hawt" and panders to the "male gaze"... The "male gaze" being a sexist rejection of female sexual autonomy and an entitlement of men to have sex with all women they meet. Still the concept of real homosexual romantic and sexual relations is seen as "sick", "gross", and "unnatural". If it's not fetishized for the male masses it's unacceptable... Which means honest lesbian romance is out, as is all gay romance and sex, and any transgender sexual expression... Well that's just 30 minutes worth of barfing...

Also heteronormative sexuality is used to sell fucking everything, from soda to condoms to vegetables and everything else. When was the last time you saw a same-sex couple in a milk, housing, or any other mass market commercial? Basically never I bet... Don't say that heterosexual sexuality is massively shamed, when it's the medium to push market sales and political messages. As the disbelieving friend of the inventor of the feces powered helicopter said; "that shit will not fly!"

 

[Gengisgame]

Here many of you are whining about heterosexuality

Oh? Who is actually doing that?

The OP for one

Proud of who I am, never considered the idea of celebrating my sexuality as it's normal but the idea of this all seems to be about finding pride in the idea that others of a group that you belonged to suffered, I find that loathsome. Belong to a group that's suffered but that's never really been popularized by American media, grateful for that as it may have given me that horrible sense of entitlement that some seem to have in these cases.

 

[Something Amyss]

I didn't say surprising, I said amusing.

For them.

Almost all the talk in media has basically been "ew, I don't want no homo trying to hit on me!" for the last...30-40 years. Because being gay or bi is all about wanting to fuck literally everyone, or something, I don't know. Still, it's likely surprising because...well, what we constantly see is straight people acting all insecure and histrionic, possibly even aggressively so.

Apparently being comfortable around them, and genuinely not giving a shit who they had sex with, and being comfortable enough to joke with them about such things = gay guy to many of them. At least back in the 90's early 2000's.

Well, that's the thing with straight people. When you don't rub our faces in it, you practically blend in...>.>

sorryicouldntresist

It's actually an interesting application of the notion of assumed default. In the greater population, people are assumed to be straight because somewhere around 96% of people are straight. Go into a gay bar--and what straight person would, mirite--and the assumption switches because it shifts to a same-sex clientele.

"Gaudar" is really just inference from a series of social cues. Altering the setting changes the nature of those cues. Generally speaking, we don't have to dance around our sexuality in a gay bar, for example.

If we are answering the question of how many heterosexual people complain about pride day, if we consider the last 15 years it is the vast majority of heterosexual people I know. Almost all of them made at least one comment about how it is "disgusting" or something like that. My parents, my siblings, every important adult I knew who ever said an thing on the subject. Most of my friends. Everyone at work and church.

It is better now, but it isn't gone.

It's worth throwing out there that something like a quarter of Americans don't think it should be legal for non-straight people to exist. I forget the exact number, and Im too hungry to bother looking for poll results right now, but it took until 2012 for same-sex couples to reach majority approval or apathy in this country. In 2016, depending on the poll, we're looking at around 50-55% approval.

To repeat: in this year, only slightly more than half of Americans are okay with gay people.

I didn't really want to get into the "a lot" thing, but given it's already going on...I imagine that constitutes a lot.

Come on guys, let's just all admit that both groups have come under hardship in their time. Gay people have been put to death, castrated, forbid to marry or engage in sexual relations, and fired if their sexuality is revealed for thousands of years only having improved in the last couple decades, and straight people are forced to read someone on Tumblr saying they're terrible every once in a while.

Both groups are entitled to an occasion to tell the world they have the right to exist and express their sexuality no matter how much the world (or the occasional person on Tumblr) tells them they shouldn't

As an aside, I want to congratulate whoever came up with this on the classiness of starting it weeks after the largest mass murder in the history of the US targets a gay nightclub. This is a time for straight people to be strong and united

But is it enough? I mean, merely acknowledging the obstacles heterosexual people face daily, like...seeing two dudes kissing in public, or only 95% of the attention going to them?

Perhaps we could build some sort of memorial....