Is Straight Pride a Real Thing?

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Is straight pride a real thing?

  1. Yes, straight culture is under relentless attack

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  2. Yes but it is actually a gentle mocking of identity politics

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  3. Meh?

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  4. No, the whole thing is ridiculous

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  5. No, this is an abomination from the one group in America which was never actually oppressed

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  1. Nonnie

    Nonnie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And if wasn't for a heterosexual couple, they wouldn't be here.
     
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    There is obviously no such thing as straight pride.

    The Boston thing was a satirical troll to bait the loonie leftists into showing up, acting like the rabid chimpanzees they are, and discrediting themselves in particular, and the leftist agenda in general.

    It worked like a charm.
     
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  3. Obamamania

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    Because it is not necessary. Heterosexuality is promoted in the media every day. Every time you watch a TV show or movie with a straight couple you are seeing an expression of the heterosexual lifestyle. This is like asking why there is a BET and why shouldn't there be a White Entertainment Television channel. Why no WET? Because every other news channel promotes White entertainment. Whites are the majority in America and the Western world. There is no point to a White channel when most actors, entertainers and news reporters are White.

    The only purpose that a straight pride parade could serve is to mock gay people. If they want to have their gay pride parade I personally don't see why anyone who is not gay should care. I also don't care if gays get married. That would not devalue my marriage. That doesn't have any effect on me at all. Why not just leave them to their lifestyle? I can look at Kim Kardashian in the privacy of my own room all I want and so can you without worrying about some guy looking at Ricky Martin or who ever turns them on. I don't need to flaunt the fact that I am straight. I can understand why gay people might feel the need to given the abuse and disrespect they as a community have suffered.
     
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    Well it's not necessary to promote homosexuality and homosexuality if FAR over represented in the media and entertainment from their actual numbers.

    "Based on the 2013 NHIS data [collected in 2013 from 34,557 adults aged 18 and over], 96.6% of adults identified as straight, 1.6% identified as gay or lesbian, and 0.7% identified as bisexual. The remaining 1.1% of adults identified as “something else[]" [0.2%,] stated “I don’t know the answer[]" [0.4%] or refused to provide an answer [0.6%]."
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ion-is-gay-lesbian-or-bisexual/?noredirect=on

    If we are going to highlight and celebrate sexuality then we should do so for all sexuality especially that which is so vital and necessary to our species and our society. The reason is so that people especially young people can see there is reason to be proud of being a heterosexualy and how important it is for us.
     
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    It seems to me more a troll parade, even if more extremist people could have been in the parade.

    @Obamamania There is a difference between being gay and the way some LGBT people act.
     
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    Being heterosexual is considered the norm so there is no point in doing that.

    I personally have never even seen a gay pride parade in real life, only clips of it on TV. I don't feel threatened by gay people at all. If a gay man sexually harasses me that would be the only real issue. Otherwise they can do their thing and I don't care. I'm not worried about my sons being taught to suck dick because nobody is doing that. Honestly if people want to have a straight parade and this parade includes women walking down the street half naked, flashing their breasts Mardi Gras style I am all for that, although I can get that at a strip club if I want public nudity. Otherwise I think the purpose of this attitude is to spread homophobia and considering how horribly some gay people have been treated I don't support that.
     
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    We used to enjoy the St. P Day parade (as we live in Boston), but it's just gross now.

    One poster on Reddit nailed it when they posted:

    "Gay Pride Parades are trashy."

    "Sexual orientation doesn't always mean who you **** in the bedroom. It also means who you have relationships with, who you bond with and love unconditionally. They should wear nice clothes at these parades, they should strive to look sharp and beautiful. If there were straight pride parades I would dress up as nicely as I possibly could, my very best clothes. You want to show the world that it isn't just about putting your dick inside somebody's *******. It's much more than just that, it's about being able to love someone and not be executed for it. Just like how it isn't always about putting your dick in a vagina when it comes to straight people.

    I always see gay pride parades full of people wearing BDSM gear or stripped to just about bare ass naked with a giant pink dildo strapped to their foreheads and dry humping each other. Those are fetishes, those have nothing to do with sexual orientation. They should enforce a dress code to ensure they dress nicely and sharp so they can represent the LGBT community under a positive light.

    There's nothing wrong with holding hands or kissing. Just don't dress up like you're about to commence a giant orgy. It does exactly the opposite of what they want to happen which is acceptance from the world and makes people see them as outliers."
     
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    Since when does something being the norm prohibit it's celebration? Why is that? Why shouldn't we celebrate and encourage the norm if we do so for the abnorm?
     
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    To be fair Mardi Gras is pretty trashy too. People still have fun seeing women flash their breasts for beads. That doesn't bother me and neither do Gay Pride parades. I have never given them enough attention to really see what goes on. That simply doesn't concern me.

    You can have a straight pride parade if you really, really want to. I won't oppose it and if you have hot women flashing their breasts in the parade I am all for it. Do you want a White History Month too?
     
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    It's not trolling, it's satire, they're demonstrating the silliness of identity politics.
     
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    That's not contradictory.

    There is a strong link between the internet meme culture and that parade. I'm not sure people can understand that culture without understanding internet meme culture.
     
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    Not where I live which is it's birth place. Even the New Orleans area has more "cleaner" parades in the suburbs. The sexualizing of the downtown area especially the homosexualizing drove the locals out and they have been trying to clean it up.

    The issue is government and groups who do not want them to happen and even "counter protest" ie shiw their heterophobia.
     
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    I wasn't aware that this was actually a thing that is getting enough attention for people to protest it. I have a friend who is a feminist who has talked about women's rights activists. She doesn't like transgenders and how they are pushing acceptance for themselves as women including biological males wanting to be allowed in women's bathrooms and transgender athletes like Fallon Fox in MMA competing with natural women. I admit that issues like that can be very tricky. I'm pro-equality and I don't like to see anyone being oppressed but I'm not a supporter of the "gay agenda" in the sense that I'm pushing for all of their ideas on sexuality to be accepted as the norm. There are issues to consider.

    For example I would not like a gay man hitting on me. I've never been to a gay bar. I don't have any interest in that culture. In high school one of my friends was openly bisexual and one was a closet bisexual (outed by a girlfriend who told people he admitted his first sexual experience was with a boy). I also have a few family members who are bisexual. A Straight Pride parade just seems like a transparent attempt to snub the LGBT community by saying "Ha! Look at us! We are exercising our right to flaunt our sexuality too!" This is kind of like the "All Lives Matter" movement as a counter to Black Lives Matter or wanting a White History Month and White Entertainment Television. Whites are the majority in America and the Western World just as being heterosexual is the norm. I don't think such a thing is necessary. I think we basically have that with strip clubs, Mardi Gras and Spring Break parties. Straight people know how to have fun without having a politically motivated parade. The Heterosexual lifestyle is not under attack.
     
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    Yes there have been city counsels and mayors trying to stop them and counter protestors trying to stop them and shout them down. And those things you cited are not some can of exclusive or specific celebration of heterosexuality, homosexuals do just as much celebrating at them as anyone.

    And yes we are inundating our younger generations that homosexuality is a normal behavior and should be celebrated and even encouraged in schools and entertainment especially. Let's do the same for heterosexuality since that is VITALLY more important.
     
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    Do you believe people can be turned gay? or straight for that matter?
     
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    All pride is self serving. The more you have to advertise it the more self doubt you project.
     
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    What does that have to do with celebrating either?
     
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    Wow, body shaming and tacit admission that Trump rallies are large, by a lefty.

    Awesome.
     
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    Just a question, you surmised that we should be celebrating and encouraging heterosexuality which indicates that encouragement leads to a specific outcome.

    Gay pride is an event that has roots in severe oppression, murder, and prosecution simply for being gay.
    Heterosexuals have never faced such issues. To many it is a memorial.
     
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    So many lies, strawmen and assumptions in such a short post.
    A new low for you. Bravo! :applause:
     
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    Point taken.
     
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    I don't agree with his position on this. I don't think we need Straight Pride parades as I believe the real agenda is to mess with gays like All Lives Matter messes with Black Lives Matter protesters. I also don't listen to Bruce Springsteen and know nothing about him. But Kim Kardashian is hot as hell. The man was on put with his selection!
     
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    …………..This...……………..:winner:
     
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    Strange world we live in, where liberals not only support Displays of abnomalcy but celebrate it, while denigrating public supports of normalcy.

    Am I being insulting to gays "NO"!!!! I am merely speaking the truth.

    If being gay was normal, they would be 95% of the population and not 5%

    Only liberals could find fault in americans being proud of being normal
     

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