shinyelf said:
Dizchu said:
When there are hate attacks against "the straight community", rights taken away from straight people, "corrective rape" by gay people against straight people, a stigma against straight people that doesn't only exist on shitty blogs by edgy teenagers... only then I might entertain this "straight pride" nonsense. But until then, all I can really see it as is... well... people being butthurt that they can't be the "special snowflakes" they think gay people are.
Isn't the hate of gay people mainly amongst idiots? Are you telling me that just because fewer idiots dislike straight people we shouldn't be able to tell them to piss off? That probably isn't what you're saying, but I think it is a valid point. So, gay people should be proud because they're oppressed, or have been, why is it that straight people can't take the opportunity to celebrate? Celebrating being average (yeah, straight is the average, nothing to say hurrah for, but nothing else either.). You seem to be implying that gay people enjoy some special privilege?
EDIT: I seem to have written "gay" several times when in fact I meant to refer to the LGBT(and the other members of the letter group) community, so if anybody wants to be offended about that, go ahead. To the rest of you, sorry.
First off, I was gonna respond to your other post, but wifi shenanigans and a reboot caused the post to be eaten. Dizchu though made my point better, but not perfectly. LGBT pride events are earned by the discrimination, they're an expression of the necessity of visibility and dispelling ignorance. Your response to what I said to THM, well it was putting words in my mouth, or at least making leaps of logic based on what I said in response to another person's post... I was challenging THM on the point that they jumped into political affiliation, as if being gay is a political stance, or that basic civil rights are negotiable because people on one side of the political spectrum
think another group's existence is immoral.
Anyways most people who hate GSM[footnote]Gender and Sexuality Minorities[/footnote] folk aren't idiots, most of them are ignorant, in the absence of any real experience, or education, they default to fear. Then the real scum bags exploit that fear, because those people decided to hate a group for arbitrary reasons. Those people aren't idiots either, they're very savvy manipulators, who use people's lack of understanding to breed hate.
Still pride isn't so much about celebrating being Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, Asexual, Intersex, or whatever else... It's about being visible, about standing up proudly against a culture that tells us to be ashamed of ourselves, it's about making a stand against ignorance and hatred. That's what pride events are about, they're about being proud to be ourselves despite the hatred, shaming, and prejudice. That's also what makes the concept of "straight pride" and "cis pride" absurd and insulting, because cisgender straight folk are accepted by society and permeate every level of culture. Cisgender heterosexual people simply don't need a visibility event, because they're already visible and accepted.