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Originally Posted by 1987

gay pride month is happening now, can’t overlook it when every major corporation has decorated their logos with rainbows. it used to be it’s own thing where most people just like “ahh whatever, let them have their parade” i really didn’t care about it, but now they are desperately trying to make it mainstream.

It's been mainstream for the last few years already. In fact, I believe it was 2020 when it began to really, really ramp up in 'popularity' with lots of corporate grandstanding.

do you think it’s bigoted how it’s called gay pride month, instead of lgbtqia+ month, cause the term “gay” mainly focuses on cisgendered homosexual men, right? what about the other members of that community, lesbians, transgenders etc, shouldn’t they be represented?

You're right, and wrong. Sort of. A lot of it is exclusively gay (and lesbian, really) focused. A lot. Some places make an effort to include the rest of the community, though not often. Like I've said in other posts on here, I do see a lot of the gay/lesbian community turn their noses on the rest of the 'alphabet groups', and there's a lot of animosity between the groups in reality.

however i think they are taking things a bit far this year, the left is trying to normalize “drag shows for kids” and schools are forcefully indoctrinating a lgbtqia+ woke agenda on their students wtf? for the .01%. how have times changed to this extremism? like they’re trying to force kids to be transgender, it’s sickening, nothing against transgenders, but they shouldn’t be forcing that ideology on kids, let them decide on their own. wow didn’t know the left was so hell bent on abolishing the nuclear family, it’s bigoted.

I think there's a huge difference between educating children on homosexuality, and...'drag shows for kids'. I'll say this right now, I've never liked beauty pageants and the like, especially for children. Little girls being paraded around in very skimpy outfits, and being judged on their looks and weight is gross to me. I see drag shows being more or less the same, it's treating children like playthings and fashion accessories. In both instances, parents are using their kids as well, to show them off like purse poodles. It's just that in the case of these junior drag shows, there's an added component of parents also showing off how 'open minded' and 'accepting' they are. Trust me, my mother tried to turn me into a beauty queen as a kid, so I understood a lot of the 'psychology' behind this stuff. Luckily, I never got accepted into any beauty shows.

Anyway, back on topic. I may or may not be roasted for this here. Though I think banning all education and talk of homosexuality is excessive. Homosexuality and transgenderism and the like all exist. Most kids know they exist, even when parents try to hide it. I know mine did, and I still grew up knowing what gayness was, and am bi myself. Almost as if...trying to hide this stuff from people doesn't work. The healthy medium, of course, is to make it known that they exist, and lightly educate children on it little by little. No, I'm not saying we should teach kindergartners about different gay sex positions either. Obviously, as kids get older, the education on sex becomes more varied, and complicated.

I got most of my sex education in late elementary school (fifth grade) into middle school. It was exclusively heterosexual, and honestly, it was pretty trash. I don't have a very good opinion of the educational system, and I think most people in general are awful teachers, and even worse at teaching sex education of any kind. My experiences are probably weird because I became sexually active as a young teen, and a lot of my 'education' came from early 2000s internet. Even then, I went through a lot of unnecessary stress because I still didn't 'get' certain aspects of biological sex (aka I'd freak out over late periods and thought I somehow got pregnant even if I hadn't had actual sex). My religious parents, predictably, did jackshit to educate me either, and basically tried to paint all sex as deviant and evil (joke's on them, it didn't stick to me the way they wanted it to ). Anyway, a lot of people, even those involved in the LGBT+ community, don't 'get' it.

For instance, I think some kids do suffer from gender dysmorphia. I've witnessed firsthand from people I used to know that it can be crippling and depressing. But then there's kids that got through phases, and believe that preferring a Hot Wheels car to a Barbie makes them trans. In high school, I knew a kid that cycled through phases: he thought he was gay, then he thought he was bi, then he thought he was straight, then he was gay again, etc. We all, him included, would joke about it. "Are you gay or bi this week?" I'd ask him, and he'd go, "Hm...bi? I think?" I feel like...the way things are now, people expect kids who are questioning themselves and their bodies/sexuality to conform to a label IMMEDIATELY AND FOREVER. Thus, to many in the LGBT+ community, a child questioning whether they are trans or not prompts them to immediately pressure that child into conforming to being trans.

It's really not different from other groups. I remember the pressure in church for everyone there to be Christian and become Baptized. As a child, the other churchgoers actually tried to force me to get Baptized. There were a lot of reasons I refused, though they were wholly unsympathetic to it. If I came to church, I needed to be like the rest of them, and get Baptized. The pressure was tough on me. I didn't get Baptized in the end, though I know others who would give in, and do it so they could be considered a part of the group.

the left claims to be the party of love and diversity, stand with ukraine, they love their muslim neighbors etc. even though muslims hate gays, the left will quickly label you bigoted and islamaphobic if you speak out against the barbaric practices of the muslim taliban. but what happens when 2 woke ideologies collide?

https://i.imgur.com/DTLYhTp.jpg?2

I mean.

The right also claims to be the party of love and acceptance. I've had conservatives tell me I deserve to burn in hell for being a 'SJW', bi, being a minority, not being religious, etc. I honestly hate both sides, and their hypocrisy is both hilarious, and sad. Humanity is going down a really dark path right now, and the political discord is going to screw us all over in the end.

To specifically address your hypothetical about Muslims and homophobia, and how the left react to it? I've seen them mostly deflect that notion because, yes, it is contradictory. Thing is, they don't care, and they don't really ponder those notions too deeply. Many of the followers of leftist ideology just follow what they're told by their political overlords. Same with the right, honestly. If you really look into both political ideologies with a magnifying glass, you'll soon discover there's a lot of contradictions in beliefs they follow.

Anyway, going back to the main topic... I don't mind the idea of having themed months like black history month, and the like. It would be a nice opportunity, especially for kids, to learn more about other cultures, and the accomplishments of people within those groups. That's not what these months are for nowadays, and the corporatization and politicization of it all makes it very obvious what the real motive behind it is.