Will you avoid spending your money at places that exemplify pride? (legal, radical)

[kayanne]

Originally Posted by tinytrump

The Religious Right Wing Control Brigade is out in full force now. Be careful not to wear any multicolored clothes in public, might get wacked by some nut case.

Originally Posted by UNC4Me

Nope. They believe in banning books, pretending people other than white/straight don’t exist, and controlling women’s bodies. They believe the have the right to force their beliefs on all of us.

Originally Posted by Uconn97

Yes - for sure. I saw a rainbow after a rainstorm last week and I was like - "F" you sky! I will never patronize the sky again!

Do you really think that only extreme right, religious kooks get tired of seeing same-sex promotional stuff? Can you really not grasp that many people, of various political leanings, are weary of being told how special certain people are because they prefer to have sex with people possessing matching body parts? Does a whole month devoted to "gay pride" (though it's front and center year round actually) not strike you as just a little bit puzzling, exclusionary, and unnecessary?

When do "love to have my nipples stimulated by my vibrator" people get their own special month? When do "into foursomes in a hot tub" people get their special displays in Target?

I'm not being facetious. I DO NOT CARE about anyone's sex life or love life, and the fact that you ridicule me with ignorant posts like I quoted above, is absolutely baffling to me. I have absolutely nothing against gays, or swingers, or poly's, or whatever else people do for their sexual pleasure and relationship needs. I like people to be happy, however they need to live their lives. Truly. But I am tired of all the announcements of how special gays are. They just aren't special, ok?

Do you have anything more intelligent than narrow-minded jabs to bring to the table? I'd seriously like to hear it.

[Charlie&Rose]

To those few who voted yes....why would you want anything shoved in your face.?

[ChrisC]

Originally Posted by tinytrump

If I walk by 18 rainbows at target, I keep walking past it, ...

But what if there are 365,813,456,709,346,567,611,498,444,356,201,546 rainbows? And rather than walking past the damn things, you are wading through them? As with most anything else, this is really all about money for the most part. Can you imagine how much those "pride" flag/paraphernalia companies are raking in? And laughing all the way to the bank?

Originally Posted by Charlie&Rose

To those few who voted yes....why would you want anything shoved in your face.?

Ummm, I'm not sure I'm following your post (did you really mean to say "voted yes"?), but... that's the whole point of voting "yes" here, right? Yes I will avoid spending my money in peacock stores because I don't like that or anything else shoved in my face.

[Uconn97]

Originally Posted by kayanne

Do you really think that only extreme right, religious kooks get tired of seeing same-sex promotional stuff? Can you really not grasp that many people, of various political leanings, are weary of being told how special certain people are because they prefer to have sex with people possessing matching body parts? Does a whole month devoted to "gay pride" (though it's front and center year round actually) not strike you as just a little bit puzzling, exclusionary, and unnecessary?

When do "love to have my nipples stimulated by my vibrator" people get their own special month? When do "into foursomes in a hot tub" people get their special displays in Target?

I'm not being facetious. I DO NOT CARE about anyone's sex life or love life, and the fact that you ridicule me with ignorant posts like I quoted above, is absolutely baffling to me. I have absolutely nothing against gays, or swingers, or poly's, or whatever else people do for their sexual pleasure and relationship needs. I like people to be happy, however they need to live their lives. Truly. But I am tired of all the announcements of how special gays are. They just aren't special, ok?

Do you have anything more intelligent than narrow-minded jabs to bring to the table? I'd seriously like to hear it.

Do you expect to type the above and have anyone actually take you seriously? And you call out others "jabs"? Righhhtttt.....

Why EXACTLY does it bother YOU so much? Too many colors in your face?

[kayanne]

Originally Posted by Uconn97

Do you expect to type the above and have anyone actually take you seriously? And you call out others "jabs"? Righhhtttt.....

Why EXACTLY does it bother YOU so much? Too many colors in your face?

I thought I explained my position quite clearly. I did not intend for my examples to be "jabs." But since you do, please explain why the sexual preferences I used as examples are less special and deserving of pride than same-sex preference.

[Taratova]

Originally Posted by Uconn97

I would explain how light/water droplets work together to create an actual rainbow, but I know that doesn't fit with your Noah's ark story. Since the world should be ending any day now - does it really matter?

And God created that effect, not man. Man had to figure that out how God created the prism of colors and how we actually see with our eyes colors.Science is the mere study of what God created. Man still has many things to find out about God's creation.

[Rakin]

I have a gay son. pride parades have been gone on for over 20+ years.

Why now must they get kids involved. That's where you have problems.

[ChrisC]

Originally Posted by Uconn97

Do you expect to type the above and have anyone actually take you seriously? And you call out others "jabs"? Righhhtttt.....

Why EXACTLY does it bother YOU so much? Too many colors in your face?

It's a legitimate point. If you are the type of person that can handle seeing the same BS over and over and over and over 24/7, fine. But others are not. They grow weary of the peacocking and overdoing it. If I played the B52's Love Shack in your ears a hundred times a day every day, maybe you'd finally get it. Maybe you'd begin to understand.


I'm going to be crude now to make a LEGITIMATE point. If any of you are easily grossed out, stop here.

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Let's say I'm an "autosexual." (for those unaware, autosexuals are those who basically get off on themselves or by themselves). So I live alone and I masturbate every chance I get. That being the case, why shouldn't I have my own flag that I get to wave in front of everyone's face? Why shouldn't I have half a store devoted to my "lifestyle"? Why shouldn't everyone be swooning over me because I'm so brave in pounding my chest and telling the world that my sexual preference is masturbation?

And I'll tell you right now, I've brought this point up in other places before and without fail 90% of the "pride" types are typically grossed out by my comment or implication. Why? They expect to be embraced, so why can't they embrace autosexuals? Their typical response is that... wait for it... "It isn't natural."

Oh really? Not natural, eh? But you didn't answer the question: why is there no flag or pin or graphic on a beer can for the brave autosexuals out there that have to live their lives in the shadows of a darkened closet?

[cowboyxjon]

I usually try to avoid overtly Democrat-aligned companies when I shop, although it’s tough and I’m inconsistent with it.

Will I boycott a company because they want to pander to the gay community (and/or help their ESG score) by making a rainbow version of their logo? No, but I’ll laugh about it.

Editing to add: However, if a company is overtly promoting gender transitions for children or age-inappropriate material for children, yes, I’ll boycott/not shop there.

[james112]

It's the end of Target, my opinion. They can't survive this. Unless it's sold and re-branded. Use to shop at Target, not any more. They have misguided leadership.