Blue Jeans

Mark200

So who else wore blue jeans on Friday only to see one of the many signs saying "If you wear blue jeans on Friday you're GAY!"

Boston

I wore a crotchless leather one piece.

Tricity Bendix

Ugh. Not that shiite again. Why is rainbow week always so ghey?

Oh, and I spent the majority of Friday not wearing any pants of any description.

Jonathan

Boston wrote: »

I wore a crotchless leather one piece.

That'll learn 'em.

tolosenc

I think it's awesome how the LGBT make out being gay as somehow being derogatory. Essentially, it's the one day of the year where you can pick out the insecure males at 40 paces, they're the ones wearing the creased pair of non-denim trousers that probably haven't seen the light of day since last Rainbow week.

Personally, I will not stand for having a pack of queers tell me what I can and can't wear in college. There are TV shows for that.

PurpleFistMixer

I didn't see any signs. Damn. I could have looked down at my trousers, exclaimed in surprise, then developed a sudden sexual desire for my female classmates. Gotta wait another year for a sign to determine my sexuality, now. : (

t0mm

I didn't see any, but had some guy come up to me and tell me with a big grin on his face. I just said "sorry, you're not really my type, I only date good looking guys" and walked on.

Do they think we're in Primary School or something? All they did all week was stereotype themselves, which is surely the one thing they are trying to break.

snappieT

It's not something that I agree with at all, but I do see the point. It makes you think when dressing yourself that morning "will people think differently of me because of how I dress?".

That said, I agree it is bloody immature, and adds futher negative connotations to the word "gay". Perhaps "Everyone who wears blue jeans on Friday likes men" would be more apt, though I guess it would only engage the guys.

Mark200

t0mm wrote: »

Do they think we're in Primary School or something? All they did all week was stereotype themselves, which is surely the one thing they are trying to break.

Well nothing wrong with being able to make jokes about it

jack90210

obl wrote: »

Personally, I will not stand for having a pack of queers tell me what I can and can't wear in college.

+1

Boston

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Blue_Jeans_Day

To my mind the concept behind blue jeans day was to actually rebuke stereotypes by having gay people and their supporters wear clothing traditionally seen as straight.

godtabh

Boston wrote: »

I wore a crotchless leather one piece.

Pics or gtfooh

rc28

Cantab. wrote: »

In fairness, for a lot of people, being "gay" is more than derogatory, it's an abomination.

So that's you and your priest 'friends', correct?

Awayindahils

Cantab,

I do believe we've been through this before. Massively offensive posting will get you banned.

-Awayindahils

the flananator

Personally I feel Rainbow is divisive and counter-productive. Someone's sexuality shouldn't even be an issue.

Mark200

the flananator wrote: »

Personally I feel Rainbow is divisive and counter-productive. Someone's sexuality shouldn't even be an issue.

I see nothing wrong with it, but the question is how many complaints would there be if a society decided to have a week for straight people.

Tricity Bendix

depends what you mean by a week for straight people. It isn't like rainbow week is a week "for" gay people. It's not like chanukah. It's more about hightlighting prejudices and disseminating information. That's my understanding of it, anyway.

shay_562

Mark200 wrote:

I see nothing wrong with it, but the question is how many complaints would there be if a society decided to have a week for straight people.

You mean, like the other 51 weeks?

I'm torn on Blue Jeans Day. From what I recall from the discussion about it this time last year, the original Trinity version of it wasn't postered for in advance; posters went up on the Thursday night so that people were surprised by them the next morning. The idea, as I understand it, was something along the lines of forcing people to question their perceptions of their fellow students; if you saw someone wearing blue jeans, you'd automatically wonder if they were gay. If everyone is potentially gay, it makes random predjudice a lot harder, and makes gay people seem much less like a minority of easily identifiable outcasts. There's some quote that if every gay person in the world were turned purple overnight, homophobia would die out immediately, because people would realise just how many gay people are around them and form parts of their lives. Blue jeans are a more workable version of that. There's also the idea that, by forcing straight people who wear blue jeans that day to be treated like a gay person, you get a kind of "walk a mile in my shoes" effect.

On the other hand, I think the perception of it across campus is significantly different to either of those. A very small minority aside, I doubt anyone chose their wardrobe for Friday based on the LGBT's posters. In the years since it was first used, there's significantly less social stigma attached to being gay, so there's less capacity for something like this to shock or provoke or inspire thought and discussion. Instead, it just looks kinda pathetic, as well as (like people mentioned above) giving off the impression that it's somehow objectively 'bad' to be viewed as gay.

Peleus

shay_562 wrote: »

You mean, like the other 51 weeks?

I'm torn on Blue Jeans Day. From what I recall from the discussion about it this time last year, the original Trinity version of it wasn't postered for in advance; posters went up on the Thursday night so that people were surprised by them the next morning. The idea, as I understand it, was something along the lines of forcing people to question their perceptions of their fellow students; if you saw someone wearing blue jeans, you'd automatically wonder if they were gay. If everyone is potentially gay, it makes random predjudice a lot harder, and makes gay people seem much less like a minority of easily identifiable outcasts. There's some quote that if every gay person in the world were turned purple overnight, homophobia would die out immediately, because people would realise just how many gay people are around them and form parts of their lives. Blue jeans are a more workable version of that. There's also the idea that, by forcing straight people who wear blue jeans that day to be treated like a gay person, you get a kind of "walk a mile in my shoes" effect.

On the other hand, I think the perception of it across campus is significantly different to either of those. A very small minority aside, I doubt anyone chose their wardrobe for Friday based on the LGBT's posters. In the years since it was first used, there's significantly less social stigma attached to being gay, so there's less capacity for something like this to shock or provoke or inspire thought and discussion. Instead, it just looks kinda pathetic, as well as (like people mentioned above) giving off the impression that it's somehow objectively 'bad' to be viewed as gay.

deep

Mark200

Peleus wrote: »

deep

Yeah, I'd like to see them get all that across in next year's posters for rainbow week

Karlusss

If everybody in college conspired to wear blue jeans on blue jeans day, it'd sting the LGBT people through tolerance. How cool would that be.

Crash

Karlusss wrote: »

If everybody in college conspired to wear blue jeans on blue jeans day, it'd sting the LGBT people through tolerance. How cool would that be.

Yeah man, lets totally pound those gays in the ASS with tolerance. BOO YEAH!

...poor choice of words?

Boston

Its not gay if the balls don't touch.

the flananator

Being gay is fucking gay.

Boston

Nah mate, it's the new indigo.

Sir Ophiuchus

I had a guy I knew in school come up to me and tell me with a grin on his face that wearing blue jeans meant I was gay.

My response: "And?"

Shut him up.

Borneo Fnctn

the flananator wrote: »

Being gay is fucking gay.

I'm going to go with flananator on this.

rc28

Sir Ophiuchus wrote: »

I had a guy I knew in school come up to me and tell me with a grin on his face that wearing blue jeans meant I was gay.

My response: "And?"

Shut him up.

Lol, brilliant:D

shay_562

Peleus wrote:

deep

I'm going to choose to take that utterly sincerely, so thank you!

Mark200 wrote:

Yeah, I'd like to see them get all that across in next year's posters for rainbow week

Or, as I was basically saying, they could just not have posters next year. What good can Blue Jeans Day actually do? I'm all for random militancy, but I like it to be vaguely focused.

Sir Ophiuchus wrote:

I had a guy I knew in school come up to me and tell me with a grin on his face that wearing blue jeans meant I was gay.

My response: "And?"

Shut him up.

Ha! Nicely done, man.

Pet

I'm all for random militancy

I'm tempted to put this in my signature. I'm ALL ABOUT the random militancy, hurrah.

shay_562

But the more random the better. If you go to the militant place too regularly, people get sick of it and don't believe you any more, but if you use it at seemingly random intervals it can be wildly effective.

Agent Smith

let me get this straight (ho ho!)

If a person was wearing blue jeans, they were gay?

surely this brings (some) peoples mentality back to being 5,

"omg your wearing blue jeans, thats sooo Gay!!!"



in other news, my dad could beat up your dad!

Epic Tissue

Agent Smith wrote: »

let me get this straight (ho ho!)

If a person was wearing blue jeans, they were gay?

surely this brings (some) peoples mentality back to being 5,

"omg your wearing blue jeans, thats sooo Gay!!!"



in other news, my dad could beat up your dad!

I always though the point was that it makes some people make a conscious decision.

"gonna wear blue jeans!"
"oh **** blue jeans means I am gay today"
"wait, who cares?"