Pride Month

*Cue businesses scrambling to replace Ukrainian flags with rainbow flags*

Saw a parade on the continent, like a Dublin Paddy's Day with S&M gear.

Kind degenerated into messy-ish drinking later on. Huge crowds which I avoided as I'm not really into massive crowds of any sort. No doubt drugs and cruising involved, whatever floats your boat.

What’s a lie? I said there are plenty of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender who share your opinions of corporate sponsorship and involvement, and there are.

The reasons THEY do, and the reasons I have been given, are not the same as the reasons you give, because many of them are employed by the same corporates from which they request sponsorship and want them to get involved in promoting the political movement.

Corporates aren’t going to turn down that kind of advertising if it presents an opportunity for them to increase their brand awareness at the same time.

I didn’t present any false dichotomy. You gave your reasons for your criticism of corporate sponsorship and involvement.

I said I’m sure there are many people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender who share your opinions, and I gave their reasons, which are not the same as the reasons you gave about tax avoidance and how in your opinion it could be put to better use.

It’s not a false dichotomy, it’s a false dilemma you’re presenting, as though corporates and people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender are entirely separate entities. They’re clearly not, and haven’t been for some time.

You’re not any more likely to purchase a Mercedes because you’ve seen them adorn their logo with Pride colours, but Mercedes are appealing to the market of people who WOULD. Maybe you’ve heard of ‘the pink pound’?

In 2019, LGBT adults globally held a combined buying power of approximately $3.7 trillion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_money

It’s not something I’d base my decisions on, but it wouldn’t put me off buying a Mercedes, that’d be cutting my nose off to spite my face, they’re still top engineering.

It’s not more lies. It was clear the first time I was talking about different people having different reasons for why they objected to corporate sponsorship and involvement, different reasons from your ideas about their employers accounting practices.

You’re accusing me of lying based upon your own misrepresentation of my opinion. You should have left it at the point where you said -

As a heterosexual, cisgendered white male I don't want to be opining about how the LGBT community or individuals should feel about things.

I was giving you the courtesy of overlooking your stupid identity politics nonsense for the sake of the discussion.

It’s true though. Some people just have some very odd ideas that people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender exist in some parallel universe, that they aren’t employed in corporate entities like ohh, I don’t know… Netflix, Sky, Mercedes… 😂

And it’s because of their own efforts within their workplaces and employers, that increased visibility and corporate sponsorship and involvement in Pride comes about. It’s no different than corporate involvement in anything else, like sports - there’s football on tv all year round. That doesn’t mean it’s being shoved in anyone’s face any more than the idea that Pride is being shoved in anyone’s face. Everyone has an equal ability to avoid it if they want, same as I don’t care much for football or anything else I have no interest in.

It’s 14 days into pride month so … I wouldn’t have known it was that until I saw this thread…. No events in our local pubs, or restaurants, no flags, no social media hoopla…on anything I’m following at least.

there is a gay couple around the corner who have an LGBT flag in their porch, but I think I’ve seen it there too before though .. so might or might not be for the festival or whatever it’s referred to as.

i don’t see it as a ‘month dedicated’ to a minority… How can you ‘dedicate’ a big space of time in the ether to any one group of people ?

I can say that Tuesday 14th of October is now dedicated to dwarfs… ? Actually maybe I can’t, 25th of October is national dwarf day.. actually, October is national dwarfism awareness month… I must put that in the diary.

we’ll be running out of months 🥵

I’ll bet you’d a clear view 😂

I couldn’t care less eskimo tbh, that’s my opinion on it. Children are exposed to all sorts on a daily basis, and it’s up to the adults in their lives to contextualise it for them in a manner which they feel is appropriate for their children.

God forbid hurting your profit margin.