Happy straight pride day!!

James Bond Junior · 30-06-2016 10:04am #1

Apparently Twitter is going crazy over this. I think it's a bit of harmless fun. What do you fine people of after hours think?

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/happy-heterosexualprideday-the-internet-is-losing-its-mind-over-this-troll-hashtag/news-story/c8c9c33b45fcd0df40e780f85e4373c0

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/why-i-support-the-idea-of-a-heterosexual-pride-day-a7109661.html

Renegade Mechanic · 30-06-2016 10:07am

Those f*cking STRAIGHT WHITE MALE WHITE SUPREMACIST BABY MURDERING CIS-SCUM WHITE RAPIST SH*TLORDS LIKE OMG I CAN'T EVEN RIGHT NOW LIKE ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME!?!?
HOW DARE THEY. AND I'M REPORTING YOU FOR TRIGGERING ME BY POSTING THIS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE :mad: :mad: :mad:

Walter H Price · 30-06-2016 10:07am

Sure why not , if for no other reason then it'll wind the SJW's and PC brigade up no end , i'm straight and i'm proud hahahahaha :P

Caoimhgh1n · 30-06-2016 10:08am

Nothing wrong with being proud of being straight.

RWCNT · 30-06-2016 10:09am

That indo article has some gas bits.

"And when I like a man very much, I want his P in my V with a physical intensity that could suction a broken-down bullet train across the country."

I assume the idea is meant to be a joke anyway. It's dumb and I can see how it would be annoying but I don't really see any harm.

moleyv · 30-06-2016 10:09am

That PIV bullet train bit....

Zombienosh · 30-06-2016 10:10am

This is stupid.

I don't think anyone has ever felt ashamed for being straight? The reason Pride exists is because people have lived or continue to live in shame for their sexual orientation.

sbsquarepants · 30-06-2016 10:11am

I'm no more proud of being straight then I am ashamed of it.
I had no choice, it's how I happened to turn out.

Gay pride / straight pride / little bit of both pride is fúcking stupid.

Caoimhgh1n · 30-06-2016 10:12am

Zombienosh wrote: »

This is stupid.

I don't think anyone has ever felt ashamed for being straight? The reason Pride exists is because people have lived or continue to live in shame for their sexual orientation.

Lighten up.

beach_walker · 30-06-2016 10:12am

James Bond Junior wrote: »

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/why-i-support-the-idea-of-a-heterosexual-pride-day-a7109661.html

a spell in a feminist group...

One member posited the theory that all PIV (penis-in-vagina) sex is rape, and that women who engage in it are handmaidens of the patriarchy, colluding in their own sexual assault.

Can you imagine being stuck in a room with that crowd? :eek:

And OP, the paper says it was yesterday. You're late!

30-06-2016 10:13am

I want my "I went to the toilet and washed my hands properly afterwards" Pride day. Because, in my experience, a lot of people don't.

Mr. CooL ICE · 30-06-2016 10:18am

Deleted User wrote: »

I want my "I went to the toilet and washed my hands properly afterwards" Pride day. Because, in my experience, a lot of people don't.

Thread went down the toilet quickly. Hur hur hur.

But seriously, every job I've had where I've bumped into my manager in the toilet, they have never ever washed their hands. I don't know if it's a lack of hygiene or they hate me and want to leave as quickly as possible, but dammit this annoys me and I'm proud to not be like them.

30-06-2016 10:21am

Nicolas Cage wrote: »

Thread went down the toilet quickly. Hur hur hur.

But seriously, every job I've had where I've bumped into my manager in the toilet, they have never ever washed their hands. I don't know if it's a lack of hygiene or they hate me and want to leave as quickly as possible, but dammit this annoys me and I'm proud to not be like them.

Exactly. The worst is when you've seen that someone likely hasn't and you might have to shake their hands later.

Management always seem to be the worst for it, in my experience.

Collie D · 30-06-2016 10:22am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I want my "I went to the toilet and washed my hands properly afterwards" Pride day. Because, in my experience, a lot of people don't.

Ha, and the worst bit is you have to use the door handle after them. What's the point in washing my own hands of my own penis germs just to touch where someone else has left their mark.

PistolsAtDawn · 30-06-2016 10:22am

I'm straight and white and proud of both.

Duggy747 · 30-06-2016 10:22am

Super Trigger Fighter 2 - Hyper Cis Edition

RWCNT · 30-06-2016 10:29am

PistolsAtDawn wrote: »

I'm straight and white and proud of both.

That's cute.

PistolsAtDawn · 30-06-2016 10:35am

RWCNT wrote: »

That's cute.

But is it as cute as as being gay, black and proud?

Mr. CooL ICE · 30-06-2016 10:38am

PistolsAtDawn wrote: »

I'm straight and white and proud of both.

Yeah, but do you wash your hands after you pee?

Beta Ray Bill · 30-06-2016 10:39am

Hahahahahahahaha!

The indo article is class!

I am straight, and when I fancy a man, it’s like having an EU-banned vacuum cleaner for a **** – my power draw could pull him towards me from space

PistolsAtDawn · 30-06-2016 10:39am

Nicolas Cage wrote: »

Yeah, but do you wash your hands after you pee?

Yes, with my tongue

Mr. CooL ICE · 30-06-2016 10:42am

PistolsAtDawn wrote: »

Yes, with my tongue

Another thing to be proud of!

PistolsAtDawn · 30-06-2016 10:44am

Nicolas Cage wrote: »

Another thing to be proud of!

No, i'm not proud of that, I just like the taste of my own p!ss. It's a dirty habit really.

I'm just proud of my sexuality and race.

_Kaiser_ · 30-06-2016 10:57am

I'm a straight white male with no tolerance for SJW or PC nonsense... and I'm very proud of that

sbsquarepants · 30-06-2016 11:05am

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I'm a straight white male with no tolerance for SJW or PC nonsense... and I'm very proud of that

Is that old horse face from sex and the city - I don't like her either.:mad:

storker · 30-06-2016 11:10am

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I'm no more proud of being straight then I am ashamed of it.
I had no choice, it's how I happened to turn out.

Gay pride / straight pride / little bit of both pride is fúcking stupid.

Agreed. Pride in your sexual orientation is as silly as pride in your nationality.

storker · 30-06-2016 11:14am

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I'm a straight white male with no tolerance for SJW or PC nonsense... and I'm very proud of that

Seconded, with the addendum..."and yet I still somehow manage to treat everyone with due respect and fairness."

Penny Tration · 30-06-2016 11:19am

Straight, white, no pride in either. I was born that way and wasn't ever made to feel like a lesser person for it, so why would I be proud? Gay pride, I can understand, given the homophobic sh!t they've been through.

But sure, let people have 'pride' days for whatever they like, I couldn't give a monkeys. It's taking the p!ss out of gay people, but I'm sure most gay people just see it as a little pathetic anyway.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 30-06-2016 11:24am

It's missing the point of pride but basically harmless. Don't think many straight people have ever felt they were in physical danger, not going to get a job, going to get verbal abuse, that they were perverted or mentally ill or disgusting or their family might disown them because they were straight. And yes I'm sure plenty of you have seen screencaps of gay people being mean to straight people on tumblr or had a gay man try to feel you up or ye just have a super funny original joke involving the words snowflake or triggered that you're just dying to make, but the point still stands.

Article is kinda funny though

K-9 · 30-06-2016 11:29am

Jaysus, how sad. I mean what kind of an extra "special" snowflake would you need to be to want a straight day.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 30-06-2016 11:31am

K-9 wrote: »

Jaysus, how sad. I mean what kind of an extra "special" snowflake would you need to be to want a straight day.

It's a pisstake.

RWCNT · 30-06-2016 11:36am

PistolsAtDawn wrote: »

But is it as cute as as being gay, black and proud?

Diff set of circumstances really.

PistolsAtDawn · 30-06-2016 11:40am

RWCNT wrote: »

Diff set of circumstances really.

Accepted, but whats "cute" about a straight white man being proud of his sexuality and race?

OldNotWIse · 30-06-2016 11:44am

Why is anybody fúcking proud of anything? We have no input into our genetic makeup/skin colour/sexual orientation. So regardless of how we ended up, we've nothing to be proud of. Proud implies that we actually worked for and achieved something. The whole world needs to get over itself ffs.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 30-06-2016 11:52am

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Why is anybody fúcking proud of anything? We have no input into our genetic makeup/skin colour/sexual orientation. So regardless of how we ended up, we've nothing to be proud of. Proud implies that we actually worked for and achieved something. The whole world needs to get over itself ffs.

Because for a long time those inherent, unchangeable traits were something which people were told made them lesser; something they should feel shame about, despite as you point out, the fact that they were born that way. If there were no homophobia, there would be no need for pride. If there were no racism then James Brown telling people to 'say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud' would be meaningless. It's not the traits themselves which create the need for pride, it's the context.

OldNotWIse · 30-06-2016 12:12pm

Lilly Skinny Lightning wrote: »

Because for a long time those inherent, unchangeable traits were something which people were told made them lesser; something they should feel shame about, despite as you point out, the fact that they were born that way. If there were no homophobia, there would be no need for pride. If there were no racism then James Brown telling people to 'say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud' would be meaningless. It's not the traits themselves which create the need for pride, it's the context.

Those are reasons for standing up to oppression and supporting each other and propagating change and celebrating diversity etc. - they are not reasons for feeling "proud" imo.

biko · 30-06-2016 12:21pm

I dunno. I don't feel particularly proud to be straight.
I was just born this way.

RWCNT · 30-06-2016 12:24pm

PistolsAtDawn wrote: »

Accepted, but whats "cute" about a straight white man being proud of his sexuality and race?

The fact that I sincerely doubt you've ever been made to feel you should be ashamed of either. That's what I take "Pride" to mean in this context, it's pride in the face of people who'd like to put you down. Fair play if you're just proud of who you are in general, but I don't see why you'd be especially proud of being straight and white.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 30-06-2016 12:28pm

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Those are reasons for standing up to oppression and supporting each other and propagating change and celebrating diversity etc. - they are not reasons for feeling "proud" imo.

"You should be ashamed to be the way you are, you should hide it or bad things will happen"

"well fcuk off I'm not, and you saying I should be, makes me proud to be myself and not hide it, because you're making that difficult and I'm not backing down"

Makes sense to me. I've never marched in pride, but I'm a middle class bisexual from a liberal family and the way I'm comfortable presenting myself means that people usually assume I'm straight. I've had about as much of an "easy ride" (heheh) as an LGBT person can get, and I connect with pride a lot less than many of my friends, I suspect as a direct result. But I can easily see why it means more to people whose experience has been different.

Lt Dan · 30-06-2016 12:33pm

We are here, we are straight, lock up your adults daughters....

Bout damn time. All these haters trying to stop us from expressing ourselves. What about our feelings? hmmm? Straightphobics the lot of ye

There was I under the impression that all those hippies from years ago were lecturing us on how we will all be the same and one happy family with no distinctions. Yet, the desperation to label everyone now a days ...........

Lyaiera · 30-06-2016 12:42pm

I'll tolerate it. Today only though. I don't want to see any in your face heterosexuality any other time. It's turns my stomach. I just don't understand it. And don't be pushing your straight agenda and sexualities on innocent kids. They don't need to know about that stuff until their much older.. I actually once saw a straight man ask a little boy who was playing with a little girl, "Is this your girlfriend?" A fully grown man teaching young kids that being straight was... He's lucky I was the only person who noticed. There's even talks of teaching kids what being straight means when they're in fifth and sixth class. I wouldn't let any of my kids near that class. And if I find out they start talking about being straight without letting me excuse my children from the class, I'll pull them from the school. I know plenty of solicitors who would love a case like that. They're my children, I'll be the only one telling them what's right and what's wrong. As is my right as a parent.

OldNotWIse · 30-06-2016 12:48pm

Lilly Skinny Lightning wrote: »

"You should be ashamed to be the way you are, you should hide it or bad things will happen"

"well fcuk off I'm not, and you saying I should be, makes me proud to be myself and not hide it, because you're making that difficult and I'm not backing down"

Makes sense to me. I've never marched in pride, but I'm a middle class bisexual from a liberal family and the way I'm comfortable presenting myself means that people usually assume I'm straight. I've had about as much of an "easy ride" (heheh) as an LGBT person can get, and I connect with pride a lot less than many of my friends, I suspect as a direct result. But I can easily see why it means more to people whose experience has been different.

If someone said this to me, I'd just think they were an ásshole. It wouldn't change how I feel about myself (for better or worse) and wouldn't make me feel suddenly proud, or that I should big up my sense of pride in order to counteract their ignorant warbling, but I do see the merit of pride of course.

I don't do pride anymore, though I embraced it thoroughly in my youth and have nothing bad to say about it. Maybe when I decide what I am I'll march again!

drunkmonkey · 30-06-2016 12:50pm

Lyaiera wrote: »

I'll tolerate it. Today only though. I don't want to see any in your face heterosexuality any other time. It's turns my stomach. I just don't understand it. And don't be pushing your straight agenda and sexualities on innocent kids. They don't need to know about that stuff until their much older.. I actually once saw a straight man ask a little boy who was playing with a little girl, "Is this your girlfriend?" A fully grown man teaching young kids that being straight was... He's lucky I was the only person who noticed. There's even talks of teaching kids what being straight means when they're in fifth and sixth class. I wouldn't let any of my kids near that class. And if I find out they start talking about being straight without letting me excuse my children from the class, I'll pull them from the school. I know plenty of solicitors who would love a case like that. They're my children, I'll be the only one telling them what's right and what's wrong. As is my right as a parent.

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Stealthfins · 30-06-2016 1:02pm

I'm very proud of the job I finished today.
I was STRAIGHT up in the morning,went STRAIGHT into work.

I planted a hedge STRAIGHT away,and it was STRAIGHT.

Now I'm heading STRAIGHT to lunch,and eat my dinner STRAIGHT down the hatch,excuse the pun....

STRAIGHT forward or wha....

PistolsAtDawn · 30-06-2016 1:09pm

"The fact that I sincerely doubt you've ever been made to feel you should be ashamed of either. That's what I take "Pride" to mean in this context, it's pride in the face of people who'd like to put you down. Fair play if you're just proud of who you are in general, but I don't see why you'd be especially proud of being straight and white."

Thats a good answer, covered everything, i've no qualms with you good sir.

I guess i'm a proud white man who happens to be straight.

Stealthfins · 30-06-2016 2:06pm

The bigger the pride the harder you fall.

The_Valeyard · 30-06-2016 3:24pm

Stealthfins wrote: »

The bigger the pride the harder you fall.

How about a lions pride?

Boom_Bap · 30-06-2016 3:29pm

I prefer Steak and BJ day followed by Chipper Day.
I like my days to have food themes.

wp_rathead · 30-06-2016 4:24pm

DEFTLEFTHAND · 30-06-2016 4:27pm

The_Valeyard wrote: »

How about a lions pride?

There's been cases of bisexual male lions documented in the wild.

Some prides seem to tolerate it and others don't. It depends on how the Alpha pride leader feels about it.

Stealthfins · 30-06-2016 4:32pm

I'm organizing a fisherman's pride day,those effing hippies giving out about me catching fish....

I'll wear a hippie beater fishnet vest and be lacing up the boots

Happy straight pride day!!

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