Straight Pride?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6oW4U9_eZg

 

You clearly don't understand what Pride is all about.

There is no need for straight pride. Straight people have never been discriminated against. Fact. For a lot of the LGBT community, Pride is the only place in which they can truly be themselves and feel safe around people of whom they know will not judge them for being who they are. Discrimination and violence against the LGBT community is still highly prevalent - in some places crimes against the trans community are on the up. Pride is our way of fighting this without the need to extend to violence. When straight people need to show solidarity against a horrific crime against one of their own, you be sure to message me.

Well, you can feel free to be marginalised by the majority... not that straight people even want pride events in the first place. Just don't involve me in that, thanks.

 

It's ridiculous in my opinion.
Straight people are the majority.
Lgbt pride is a way to show people that we exist and are human beings just like them and that we are not ashamed of being lgbt.

 

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This.

 

@eMei: Nope, that is your definiton. Since when does pride require a qualification?
Actually if you say, you can't be proud because you're white, straight and middle class you discriminate against them. Check your maslow pyramid. Most of us are safe so the core desire of most people is respect. So this is not just a little of the usual complaining.

 

I think of "straight pride" the same way I think of "all lives matter." No one is doubting that white lives matter. The point of the Black Lives Matter movement is to emphasize that the lives of people of color matter as well. Similarly, no one is doubting that straight people should be confident in their identity as straight people. Queer people have often been taught that their queerness is something to be ashamed of, and that is why LGBTQ+ pride should be emphasized.

 

You're wrong. :eusa_clap

 

Maybe one day we can have a general pride that celebrates all sexuality and gender identities.

What I don't want to see and what I will forever think is digusting is lgbtq people bashing our Allies. That is not cool.

 

Pride events are fundamentally about bucking negative beliefs regarding those marching. LGBT pride originated as an act of resistance and continues as an affirmation of social acceptance in the context of that history.

Straight pride, then, is purposeless. It has no self-evident reason to exist. So that leads to us having to conclude that, if it can't serve the same function as LGBT pride, it's about something else.

It's geared around spitefully opposing LGBT pride and trying to delegitimise LGBT people by trivialising those events and decontextualising LGBT history and the current social realities we live in.

At best, straight pride is pointless. As it's intended, it's malicious but thankfully largely unsuccessful in the public sphere because of how evidently spiteful it is.

 

UGHHHHHHH they are just people who want to feel ~special~ when being LGBT is no cakewalk. They want the inclusion, they don't want to deal with the homophobia; they feel like being an ally isn't good enough so they have to co-opt lgbt/queer and, no offense, take something away.

 

I personally don't think the ideology alone is discriminatory at all. I just dont really find it necessary but they aren't doing any wrong. :icon_bigg

 

And that is a completely acceptable stance. You don't see the point, but you respect the right that they have to throw such an event.

I would go to a straight pride rally as an ally... Some of us have to keep the whole heterosexual society from thinking that we (LGBT+ people) all hate them and don't believe they should be able to have pride in their orientation.

Plus, I could actually go to a pride rally without being disgusted by the lack of discretion part of the LGBT community shows for once. It does not look good to see a parade with people in leather ass-less chaps and whips in public regardless of orientation. Keep your kinky :***: at home where it belongs. Its called discretion and common courtesy that normal people don't want to see that... We are not the :***: village people so why does that niche part of our community get over-represented in parades? (Every pride event I've been to)

 

@TXTurbo:
Yes, precisely. We haven't done shit for being LGBT. We're not special. You are special if you accomplished something. We are different. Like attached vs unattached earlobes. Left handed vs right handed. Sometimes I feel like it's all about revenge and gaining profit out of being born different which is sad.

 

I wouldn't mind "straight pride" if it didn't seem to me as if it is inherently disingenuous.

"Straight pride" doesn't seem to form because straight people feel proud of who they are, it forms because straight people who are vexed by LGBT pride want to "show up" LGBT pride. It's spiteful, the motives are disingenuous, and as others have said, for some, it is probably a vehicle for homophobia.

In its pure form, "straight pride" could be no different than LGBT pride, but even then, if LGBT pride is about standing up in the face of discrimination for being LGBT, then straight pride will never be equal to LGBT pride.

 

By that logic, you can't take pride in following laws/not being a criminal/not being a rapist/not being homophobic either. You don't catch crap for not breaking the law, or for not being homophobic, and you will be a part of the majority... So you shouldn't be able to march for compliance of our laws and a peaceful society as the majority of people support not being a criminal?

See how that argument can be easily proven to be invalid? We as a community need to realize that thought process is going to get us nowhere. Its like people don't realize every type of diversity includes a majority, and they are a part of what makes up the diversity of said group. (In real life, not hypothetical equal numbers of each group for those who want to point out it is technically possible)

 

TXTurbo, you seem to be equating those who question the motives of "straight pride" with "they shouldn't be allowed to do it". Few people are actually claiming that straight pride should be illegal or shouldn't be permitted in some way. They are expressing valid concerns about the motives for straight pride. As I said in my response, is it purely an expression of pride in this particular facet of your individuality? Or is it a reaction to gay pride? If the latter, then there is cause to believe it to be ridiculous. And believing straight pride to be ridiculous is not the same as believing it shouldn't be allowed.

 

@ Libertino: I believe it's not that important either, but shouldn't be prohibited either.