Happy straight pride day!!

drunkmonkey wrote: »

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drunkmonkey wrote: »

The don't in everyday life though, were back to hanging your arse off the back of a truck in spandex and then crying discrimination. Pride does sweet fa to bring everyone and I mean everyone together it has the opposite effect.

“How come there’s no straight pride?”

When I was a kid around 10 years old, I had a brace on my leg a-la Forrest Gump… I wore it for about two years to correct a hip disorder called Perthes disease. I spent those two years either hobbling around in a prototype brace (which I was lucky to be in the test group for), on crutches, or in a wheelchair. I wasn’t able to play much outdoors, not able to run around and be a kid, and not able to walk faster than an uncomfortable waddle. I was really lucky, but honestly - from a kid’s perspective? it sucked. A lot.

During this time, there were a handful of kids - not a lot, but five or six out of the thirty or so in my class - who were actually ****ty to me about my situation. Seriously - they actually teased and bullied the kid in the leg brace like the antagonists in a bad 80′s coming-of-age movie. They were mad because I “got to be” pushed around in a wheelchair all the time. They were pissed that I got “preferred” seating near the restroom so I could manage more effectively. They were frustrated because I got attention that they perceived as something they deserved. They viewed the elements of my medical care as a “privilege” that they were being denied. They were actually jealous that I was stuck in a goddamned leg brace.

The point of all this back story is this: every time I see people moaning and whining about the lack of “straight pride”, this is the part of my life that provided my understanding of why. These kids were so jealous and ****ty and selfish that they could completely overlook the discomfort and struggle (and outright misery, at times) of my situation because they wanted the attention I was getting. They took their health and their freedom completely for granted because they valued attention and privilege above all else, and had a complete inability to look any deeper at the consequences of the situation. If the attention wasn’t on them for one second, they did whatever it took to get it back.

I suspect that these kids grew up to become the jealous douchenozzles who write the posts bemoaning the lack of “straight pride” celebrations that show up everywhere around this time every year.

drunkmonkey wrote: »

How is it, if we had a straight pride parade the straights would be at the same crack, arse and boobs everywhere. They don't though, they don't feel any need to parade their sexuality or even the fact they've no sexuality. All modern pride does is say look at us were gay and proud. Why would someone feel the need to distinguish themselves like that and then give out about the struggle being different. Your only different as you've got caught up in a bubble thinking that's how people define what makes each other, gay pride is right up there with straight pride, divisional nonsense. How about a poor pride day or traveller pride day there both more discriminated against in Ireland, we hear very little in comparison about them.

uch wrote: »

I can't wait for the West Wicklow Sheep Shaggers Pride day myself

Sand wrote: »

Not entirely sure what the direct link between straight and white is, and acknowledging that the idea of straight pride is not really relevant, but for the part in bold, there are examples of white people being discriminated against for being white and being targeted by attackers for being white.

I.E. that 'cultural appropriation of dreadlocks' incident (all of the 'cultural appropriation' issues are down to the target being white). In the Duke lacrosse case the DA targeted the accused because they were white and he wanted to win over African-American voters (he was later disbarred such was his misconduct), and Karla F.C. Holloway (the faculty member who led the Gang of 88 witchhunt against the accused) openly admitted she would not deal with a white funeral home director when it came to burying her family members because he was white. And there was the murder of Denton James Ward by a mob when bystanders indicated he was targeted because he was white. They are just cases I remember but they were all cases of white people being targeted for being white.

There is a whole school of thought dedicated to invalidating those incidents because of 'priviledge' or some other nonsense, but its usually pushed by those carrying out the discrimination or trying to excuse it. At the end of the day, whatever characteristics define you, someone out there hates or resents you because of it.

Sand wrote: »

True, but that's the case for most targets of impersonal hate. Whilst in a particular area people will happily learn about their neighbours so they can divide each other up into categories to better hate and discriminate against, should those people leave that particular area and journey to some far off land where no one knows or cares about their particular cultural values they might not face any specific discrimination other than being foreign which they will share with everyone else not from there.

There are exceptions to that though, homosexuality is one which does face institutional discrimination around the world - from being specifically denied the right to marry, up to and including death. In that sense, the various gay pride festivals are vastly more necessary and relevant than straight or white pride is.