Heterosexual Pride Day

efb · 09-05-2013 09:16PM

NuMarvel wrote: »

We kind of have to look. It's hard to give the secret handshake if we don't look .

/lenny shuuut uppp....

efb · 09-05-2013 09:17PM

Right so I am a left handed gay culchie

If was a blind black jewish traveller trans woman I'd have the full set!

Crooked Jack · 09-05-2013 09:27PM

NuMarvel wrote: »

Some of it is rare, but some of it does happen every day. The average hetero couple can be affectionate in public with no repercussions. I've seen gay couples walk through Temple Bar during the day holding hands and every second or third person looking at them. Even if there is no malice intended, it's uncomfortable to be the subject of attention like that.

I can sympathise. Whenever my ex insisted on holding my hand in public I always got the feeling people were looking at us, although that's probably just my issues with public displays.

bodice ripper · 09-05-2013 09:28PM

efb wrote: »

Right so I am a left handed gay culchie

If was a black traveller trans woman I'd have the full set!

You'd need to be blind and a Jew as well. Check your privilege.

Crooked Jack · 09-05-2013 09:29PM

efb wrote: »

Right so I am a left handed gay culchie

If was a black traveller trans woman I'd have the full set!

There are probably all sorts of grants you can apply for.

Gummy Panda · 09-05-2013 09:31PM

Screw you 1ZRed

Panda pride parade was great success

becost · 09-05-2013 09:35PM

efb wrote: »

What rights are people deprived of for being a culchie

PS: I am a culchie!

It affects job opportunities.

efb · 09-05-2013 09:40PM

bodice ripper wrote: »

You'd need to be blind and a Jew as well. Check your privilege.

updated

dr.bollocko · 09-05-2013 10:56PM

mod:

KFK don't post in this thread again.

Others, please lets get back to topic.

aloyisious · 10-05-2013 09:52AM

I'd have thought it was natural to be str8 proud, and not needy of a parade to highlight a discrimination. Ponder's if we've upset the applecart and made str8s insecure

Pride, as a term-word, was chosen to show that lesbians and gays were longer going to accept that they should be ashamed of what and who they were, that bashing a person for being queer was wrong. It was a conscious decision to stand up str8, proud and shout it from the mountains.

old hippy · 10-05-2013 12:16PM

If straight people had a history of being attacked, abused, discriminated against all because of their orientation - then I could certainly understand the context and need for a heterosexual pride day. But I sincerely doubt that was on the OPs mind.

becost · 10-05-2013 12:24PM

old hippy wrote: »

If straight people had a history of being attacked, abused, discriminated against all because of their orientation - then I could certainly understand the context and need for a heterosexual pride day. But I sincerely doubt that was on the OPs mind.

What? Are you saying gay pride is about being proud of being attacked, abused and discriminated against??

old hippy · 10-05-2013 12:25PM

becost wrote: »

What? Are you saying gay pride is about being proud of being attacked, abused and discriminated against??

Yes. Clearly, that's exactly what I said.

kunst nugget · 10-05-2013 05:28PM

aloyisious · 20-05-2013 07:41AM

What flag would Hetero's wave about or display on their parade?

kiffer · 20-05-2013 08:41AM

aloyisious wrote: »

What flag would Hetero's wave about or display on their parade?

The sort of flag available on the Atari Jaguar

Terry1985 · 20-05-2013 09:09AM

aloyisious wrote: »

What flag would Hetero's wave about or display on their parade?

Keep it simple, so some form of a correct/tick symbol across a white background.

nc19 · 20-05-2013 09:16AM

My name is URL wrote: »

But being straight is the socially accepted norm. Hence the reason for Gay Pride marches and so forth... it's an attempt for those groups to attain social acceptance and equality.........

If social acceptance from the largely straight, white middle class is the aim i would suggest feathered boas may not be the best road to take

Imo

NuMarvel · 20-05-2013 09:26AM

mighty mechanic wrote: »

If social acceptance from the largely straight, white middle class is the aim i would suggest feathered boas may not be the best road to take

Imo

Acceptance doesn't mean conformity with the norm. Acceptance means acceptance for who people are, in all the variety and diversity that entails. You can't be accepted for who you are if you're hiding who you are.

Grayson · 20-05-2013 09:42AM

NuMarvel wrote: »

Acceptance doesn't mean conformity with the norm. Acceptance means acceptance for who people are, in all the variety and diversity that entails. You can't be accepted for who you are if you're hiding who you are.

And a lot of guys at a gay pride parade are not hiding a lot.

20-05-2013 09:59AM

NuMarvel wrote: »

Acceptance doesn't mean conformity with the norm. Acceptance means acceptance for who people are, in all the variety and diversity that entails. You can't be accepted for who you are if you're hiding who you are.

Im straight but thats not who i am.

Annasopra · 20-05-2013 10:45AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Im straight but thats not who i am.

when did you decide to be straight?

Grayson · 20-05-2013 10:51AM

mango salsa wrote: »

when did you decide to be straight?

I applied to be gay but I failed the fitness test. Now it's a long life of dull clothes and mediocre dancing

Daith · 20-05-2013 10:56AM

Grayson wrote: »

I applied to be gay but I failed the fitness test. Now it's a long life of dull clothes and mediocre dancing

Hey me too..but I still passed the gay test in that I like men.

crockholm · 20-05-2013 11:30AM

remember.....Positive stereotypes= Good,

Negative stereotypes = Bad

NuMarvel · 20-05-2013 01:31PM

Grayson wrote: »

And a lot of guys at a gay pride parade are not hiding a lot.

As someone in favour of freedom of expression, I have absolutely no objection to men who have spent many many hours getting fit and staying fit displaying the results of all their hard work. Nope, no siree, no objection whatsoever

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Deleted User wrote: »

Im straight but thats not who i am.

Your sexuality isn't the entirety of your being, but it's a significant part. And more importantly, you don't encounter any discrimination because of that part of you. You're allowed to marry your partner, you're not stared (or worse) at because you hold your partner's hand in public, your ability to be a good parent isn't questioned simply because of your heterosexuality, governments aren't introducing "Kill the Straights" laws or trying to outlaw heterosexual "propaganda", and if you work in a religious-run school, hospital, or business, it's unlikely that your heterosexuality allows your employer to legally fire you.

It would be great to live in a world where being gay is as unremarkable as being hetero, but we're not there yet.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 20-05-2013 02:30PM

Grayson wrote: »

And a lot of guys at a gay pride parade are not hiding a lot.

Key words there being "at a gay pride parade".

NuMarvel wrote: »

As someone in favour of freedom of expression, I have absolutely no objection to men who have spent many many hours getting fit and staying fit displaying the results of all their hard work. Nope, no siree, no objection whatsoever .

As someone who favours freedom of expression, I have absolutely no objection to men dispalyed themselves dressed up in feather boas or whatever takes their fancy. Might even brighten the pale up a bit!

NuMarvel · 20-05-2013 06:12PM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

As someone who favours freedom of expression, I have absolutely no objection to men dispalyed themselves dressed up in feather boas or whatever takes their fancy. Might even brighten the pale up a bit!

If you didn't see it, Dublin 4 (and probably beyond) was awash in pink-feather-boa-clad men last Friday -http://static4.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/a_scale_large/2000-8/photos/1368831211-fans-during-amlin-challenge-cup-between--leinster-and-stade-francais_2062098.jpg

UCDVet · 20-05-2013 07:00PM

I personally don't care about someone else's sexual activities. That's their business. I don't think other people should care about mine.

I wouldn't attend a public Heterosexual Pride Day for the same reason I wouldn't attend a public Homosexual Pride Day for the same reason I wouldn't discuss my particular brand of turn-ons or fetishes at work.

To be honest, I just don't see anything to be proud of about having sexual desires (or even not having them). It's like being proud of eating pizza.

You like pizza? Great! But really, is that something to be proud of? I prefer sleeping on my side more than on my back - should I take pride in that? I like Coke more than Pepsi....but again I don't have any sense of pride.

It's a preference. Everyone has them. Be proud of noteworthy things you've done....accomplishments or good deeds. Those are things to be proud of. But what you like in the bedroom? Meh....

Corkfeen · 20-05-2013 07:04PM

Ehhh nobody has ever gotten condemned or disowned for eating pizza..... Look at the reaction a pride march got in Russia.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/georgia-homophobic-violence-mars-tbilisi-pride-event-2013-05-17

The reaction is basically condoned by the government........

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