June is a tough month for many of us here. Between rainbow-dyed lattes sold at Starbucks, politically (but not grammatically or factually) correct emails from human resources, and roads blocked by another parade, we need to somehow get through the month of “celebrations” with dignity, sanity, and sobriety. I don't know your strategy, but I turn to nature, mindless youtube videos, and humor. Here is my ode to Pride Month. And please, share your non-violent coping strategies.
On the 12th day of Pride month,
the a-holes gave to me
Twelve "perfect allies",
Eleven dudes in dresses,
Ten girls with beards,
Nine meowing furries,
Eight nasty groomers,
Seven rainbow colors,
Six-pack Budweiser,
Five neopronouns,
Four rainbow lanyards,
Three Pride parades,
Two progress stickers,
And a pride flag in a pear tree.
😂😂🤣🤣😭😭😭
Gotta respect your countdown.
Jokes aside, I wanna kick the pride out of June so hard that it's butt aches for the next decade. Take that bizarre new kitch and God awful mismatched flag and shove it where it belongs.
To the more normal LG letters of the flag,it start working on something new and fresh to represent you. unhitch yourselves from this Marxist train wreck that has dismantled the hard work you put into getting freedom to love who you want. This new flag? This new THING? This is a whole different thing. Burn it!
I have LG(B) friends who fought hard to be able to live peaceful lives, without looking over their shoulders or hiding in the shadows. They never wanted to publicise or politicise their reasons for doing this, just quietly live their lives in peace. They are angry about the activism, theatricalisation, pushing their lives into public places and faces, and essentially the leeching into their years of hard work to be let be to live.
Plus angry about the pathologising of adolescence, creating mental health difficulties where there may not need to be angst, and for children who may yet discover their LG-ness; wiping out of new generations of vulnerable and sensitive young people who have yet to discover themselves.
Either way, I just see this as indoctrination and grooming on an alarming scale.
And I also see the irresponsibility of governments in not protecting the mental health of our children, nor safety of both women and children in society.
And in doing so, destroying so much for the original 'pride' communities.
The politicising and hijacking of women's, children's, and gay rights makes me FURIOUS.