I don't think it speaks to its inclusive nature. Sometimes I feel if I say anything or pass comment on the fact that it is actually an exclusive month dedicated to a minority, I am deemed a bigot which I am not. Discuss....🤔
Due to most of the influence being from religious influences than state persecution. Religious idealologies at the centre of Orthodox Christianity preach anti gay sentiment. The Ukranian state thought has banned discrimination in the workplace on grounds of sexual orientation, has hate crime legislation on its books and sodomy is legal. Those are for a start. The method by which you make a blanket statement is too black and white.
Ive seen the wedding invites go round and invites to stag parties. BTW Why are there scantily clad women in music videos, why is this being pushed in my face??
Sex sells. What are the gays selling?
Fabulousness..and a cheeky finger behind the bins on Capel St if you play your cards right
Jaysus is that all you're selling 😆
Id be down the park otherwise but weather is too unpredictable !!
You obviously need to read the instruction manual of the appliances doing this to you.
I'd say that age and experience plays a lot into this. I'm middle aged now, and it does affect my perception both Pride and society in general. And I do consider having some degree of cynicism as being healthy in the rather complicated society we live in today. When I was young, I accepted more without seeking to see the layers involved. I can't do that anymore. Nor would I want to.
Oh, and the freedoms we received came from the LGBQ community.. not the Trans. I'm always amazed at the desire to shoehorn the Trans into everything. Their numbers are tiny, even after two decades of LGBTQ being promoted together, and the broadening of the term to include more groups... back in the day, their numbers were far smaller again. And yet, you would say that the Q/T gained all these freedoms for the rest of us? haha.. yeah. Right. No.
As for what is shocking or not, actually I'd say that the sexualisation in the gay fetish/kink communities would shock most people. But then, I'd say the same of the fetish/kink heterosexuals. Most people are not exposed to such things, and seeing it in media isn't the same as seeing it in front of you.
Two points you made there interested me.
First is the experience/ age thing. I agree and I believe I mentioned it before that's it been there done it mentality. This is not what I want but got the rocks off. Kinda boring to be honest.
Then onto the kink/fetishism stuff. I looked a porn site there and som of the stuff made me go huh? Each to their own, as long as consensual and legal, and everything but some just plain strange to me (mom and son, family matters, barely legal...).
Not my bag. This is hetero stuff, but I imagine it's the same for any other sexuality selection.
I spent some time in Berlin. Wonderful city. Particularly wonderful if you're LGBTQ, curious, energetic, etc. Amazing clubs, but also a lot of dungeon clubs. Great for the fetish groups. I've experimented a lot, but when you have a city that open to everything? I was shocked more than once (enjoyed it too).. and I'm bisexual.. open to both genders. Now.. put a normal guy or women in my place? haha.. Good lord. People are often very conservative when it comes to sex, or the psychology of it all.. The LGBTQ community often likes to take what normally goes on behind closed doors (or niche areas), and expose normal people to it. The shock value matters to them. Sure, it's fun.. but.. there's negatives to such behaviour.
That's a curious one. I love Berlin. Probably my favourite city in Europe. Definitely a city thats all over the place, depending on districts.
I'm no prude and have a few kinks (very tame) myself and stuff that makes me go hmmm, that might be interesting.
It's more the how mad can we get kinda thing that I don't get. We've all experimented with stuff, not just sex, but it's more the feeling its a competition. Again, I'm not as eloquent as you, but it's a more a feeling post.
You described it fine... 😁 and I understand where you're coming from. TBH I'm kinda jaded with all that kind of living.. middle age and all that. More interested in settling down, and chillin.
I'm just waiting for the next rugby match!
But in all seriousness, would you choose mature cheddar or edam in your toasted sandwich (trick question)
I don't get why this lasts a month. PRIDE month, Black History Month, I mean there really isn't a month's worth of stuff to drag the arse out of is there?
Sure, you could fit all the parades into one week, but what would you do to make the rest of June special in any way? It's a long way to Halloween and Christmas yet. Black History month is not a thing in Ireland afaik, but it could be interesting to have a Traveller's History month.
There's a lot more going on than just the parades. I don't participate in it myself, but there is quite a broad selection of activities (such as community workshops, or small concerts/art displays/exhibitions/etc) available for those interested.
I agree that a Pride month is too much. But nobody is forced to participate. Just ignore it if it's something you're not bothered involving yourself in it.
If you need 1/12th of everyone's lives, every year, to sell an idea, you've got to wonder about the quality of the idea.
Close enough.
https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/heritage/gypsy-roma-and-traveller-history-month-2022/
It doesn't bother me at all. I'm just curious about how some things went from a day to a weekend to a week to a month long thing.
No need. The point is a gigantic over representation versus a significant under representation.
People don't need to be reminded of logical things, and vice versa.
Government support, would be my guess. Some public servants or politicians thought it would be a great idea (probably in competition to what other countries were doing), offered funding to the various LGBTQ groups/NGOs, and.. there we have it.
I've noticed that when it comes to a variety of topics, countries seek to out-virtue each other.
Campaign for it. None of this is difficult to understand. The LGBTQ community have an established and active group of people who will seek further representation, and support. They did the legwork...
But then, you're not really interested, and you won't campaign for it... and so they won't get their month of awareness. Simple enough really.
If you’re that passionate about it why don’t you start something yourself? Instead of whinging
My point is over-representation, a megaphone. That's all it is.
Downs syndrome people don't need a month dedicated to them as a minority with bonafide challenges, and if they don't, nobody does.
I'm not passionate about it, I'm not whinging.
I'm pointing out, very easily, over-representation. That's all.
What harm is it doing, exactly?
That's the approach we need to life, "why not?"
Looking forward to the dedicated 6 months of every year for victims of stubbed toes. "Stub Season is upon us".
And why not? What harm would it do, exactly?
This some amount of petty whinging.
No. It's a ridiculous concept of over-representation backed up with "why not?" getting it's due put-down.
See you at Golden Chimps Painted Blue fest next week. And why wouldn't you be there, after all? What's your problem, you're not an anti-chimper are you? Not going to whinge about it, are you?
I've lost interest in this, I'm afraid. I'm not sure why you're this triggered by Pride. I suggest putting down the internet for a while.
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