Tainted Rainbow
I used to be a festival going rainbow coloured hippie.
It upsets me so much how the rainbow bright colours have been appropriated and mean absolute trauma and deep anger to me (and many other parents). And all the recent woke BS can be “triggering”.
When my eldest child saw a blue-haired character in a cartoon we were all watching she laughed "woke" out loud! That was weird coming from her. She is either being ironic (because I often make comments like that) or maybe she's seeing the performative woke bullshit for what it is in real life now?
The picture above is me dressed as my hubby one year for Halloween, tandem feeding on the multi-coloured blanket that became a hooded cape in the evenings or in the rain wandering about fields of music.
There's me breastfeeding my middle child inside that colourful sling, sitting next to my eldest. She used to choose her own colourful, interesting clothes. Now she's the antithesis of that, sporting black clothes, boy shorts, sleeveless vests with piercings or chains. Not to mention the flattened boobs and literally hundreds of scars.
Is that their childhood legacy now? Is that going to be their colourful queer altered past? Scars and ideology?
Whatever they will be healing from in their future I hope and pray it's not from medical or surgical harm.
Is the rainbow tainted for you too?
Ten years ago I thought Pride parades were quirky and fun. Now they are horror shows.
Every time I see the "trans" flag, I feel nauseous. I was okay with the rainbow flag before it was appropropriated by "TQ+". The forced teaming of that group with LGB tainted whole concept that was originally meant to be supportive for gay rights and people. Now I would like to see any and all rainbow flags go away because they have lost all positive meaning and have been replaced with radical ideology and harm to kids and vulnerable adults.