Straight Pride

hairycakes wrote: »

Are they though? Not every person who voted no was/is an awful person. They just had different belief systems to you (and me for that matter).

Just like Hitler's belief system was that Jews are the scum of the Earth.

Since when did it "being your belief" make it ok?

StewartGriffin wrote: »

Or we could be stereotypically Irish and have a "Shame Parade," where we all march with our heads down and mutter about how crap we are at everything.

Tear stains on my stamp collection

hairycakes wrote: »

Are they though? Not every person who voted no was/is an awful person. They just had different belief systems to you (and me for that matter). Of course, there were some awful people voting no. But don't be as bigoted as them by tarring all no voters with the one brush.

As for Straight Pride, Gay Pride, Black Pride, White Pride, etc; it's the categories that we put ourselves in that keeps us apart. Everyone is different and it's a great thing to be proud of your difference but it is also the thing that keeps people separated. I'm a straight, white woman and I'm no different to a gay, black man. We are both people and isn't it great that we both have the capacity to love another person. How about People Pride?! Hopefully not too many animals will feel left out.

The people who voted no weren't necessarily homophobes or awful people, but the people who ran the No campaign were unspeakable.

And lumping gay pride in with white pride is monumentally offensive. I'm a straight while cisgender male, and in terms of how I get treated by the rest of the world, I'm massively different to people who don't fit that description. I have never been scared that I might be assaulted for holding my wife's hand in public. I have never been assumed to be a potential criminal because of my whiteness. I have never been treated as a woman on the basis of the genitals I was born with. I have never had my opinion treated as less valid because I'm a man.

Pride from a minority perspective is a reaction to decades or centuries of social structures and norms that define those minorities as inferior. Pride from the perspective of those in power is a reaction to demands for equality. They're not remotely the same.

Saipanne wrote: »

If you can't have your feelings hurt, based on what you are, you don't get a parade.

"Sorry guys everyones too nice to us now, there'll be no parade this year"
:pac::pac::pac::pac:

Enjoy Heroin Responsibly wrote: »

Perhaps the OP can give examples of times/places where hetrosexual people have faced stigma, oppression, discrimination, persecution and violence on a massive scale ?

Na thought not.

Countless times throughout history.

ixoy wrote: »

So provide examples of that.

Why should I?

desertcircus wrote: »

The people who voted no weren't necessarily homophobes or awful people, but the people who ran the No campaign were unspeakable.

And lumping gay pride in with white pride is monumentally offensive. I'm a straight while cisgender male, and in terms of how I get treated by the rest of the world, I'm massively different to people who don't fit that description. I have never been scared that I might be assaulted for holding my wife's hand in public. I have never been assumed to be a potential criminal because of my whiteness. I have never been treated as a woman on the basis of the genitals I was born with. I have never had my opinion treated as less valid because I'm a man.

Pride from a minority perspective is a reaction to decades or centuries of social structures and norms that define those minorities as inferior. Pride from the perspective of those in power is a reaction to demands for equality. They're not remotely the same.

My intention was not offend, it was to show that all the boxes we put ourselves in, all the labels we use, serves to separate us from each other and make us only see our differences. We seem to be losing sight of the fact we are all people regardless. All flesh and bone. It's celebrating our sameness that will change the world, not our differences.