City council removes plus sign from LGBTQ+ Pride proclamation after deciding it promotes BDSM
City council removes plus sign from LGBTQ+ Pride proclamation after deciding it promotes BDSM
One council member said the plus sign had to be removed due to his personal discomfort...
“Until the age of 18, I believe you belong to your parents,” this is a disgusting view.
People who hold this view: "Why don't my children talk to me anymore?"
This is the start of the idea that a man owns this wife and the rest of his family. This is just the start of the domination and control for hierarchial power. Keep this in mind for all the talk about school choice
In a world where every man is a rapist, and every woman is incapable of fending for herself... "protection", control, hierarchical power, are just pieces that fall into place by themselves.
Once inequality gets entrenched as a fact, nothing good can come out of it.
More like a reactionary return to than the the start of.
@sludge @BuddyTheBeefalo Homer Simpson mindset.
Can we please move past this puritanical fear of the existence of sexual acts between consenting adults?
Edited to add:
Stewart added, “I personally don’t feel comfortable with the plus category only because I don’t understand it and I have never gotten a clear answer.”
I doubt this person has ever had an honest conversation on the subject. Aside from that, "I don't understand this" is not an excuse to vote against something, either bring in someone to explain it to you or abstain from voting because you aren't qualified.
I don't understand how gears work and never got a clear answer either.
Nobody understands how magnets work either, we should ban those too.
(obligatory: https://youtu.be/MO0r930Sn_8)
I'm really resisting the urge to post a question on !asklemmy@lemmy.ml on your behalf :)
edit
I'm sorry for writing this, reading back I feel it's in bad taste. Sorry, again.I think the second one involved physical pumping your rubber body to make your blood circulate faster? Each one is fairly unique tho?
Better ban 'em.
None of this newfangled machinery to enter our lives. Toil & the Lord shall provide!
Ah yes the Ace community, famous for it’s acts of bondage. Yup the those asexuals, really out here tying each other up and whipping each other completely non-sexually just for shits and giggles.
...many asexual people still have a libido and might experience sexual desire. Asexual people might still masturbate or have sex. After all, sexuality doesn't always mean someone doesn't enjoy sex. It just means they don't experience sexual attraction.
https://www.healthline.com/health/what-is-asexual
BDSM doesn’t have to be sexual in nature—some people like it for the power only.
I know, I’m asexual, I’m just pointing out that the I and the A which are so often added and that the plus is often substituted for to cover even more bases, are really weird things to associate with BDSM.
Kinda missed the point there dude.
Axs, nbs, and the rest of the soup aren't well known for their spanking proclivities
Eh. I'm in the ace umbrella and I'd be honored to be associated. One of the most important tenants of BDSM is consent. And if everyone is consenting, I won't be forced into situations I'm uncomfortable with. These people probably associate BDSM with Fifty Shade of Gray, which the BDSM community, last I checked, hates with a burning passion because it's very nonconsensual.
r/BDSM_Aces would like to have a word with you. :)
Today i learned that, despite being a cis man who is exclusively attracted to women, this city council considers me to be a part of the LGBTQ+ community
Mmmm i hear those G's promote butt stuff. Better remove that one too. And the Q's a slur don'tcherknow. And better take out the T, i hear they bust into women's toilets wildly waving their penises.
And why don't we add an "S" for straight in order to not exclude anyone? After removing the letters we remain with LBS which doesn't sound bad, it looks like a household brand...
Oh, the B can also promote butt stuff so let's remove that one as well. The L takes away from the S men so we should remove it so everyone gets an equal share. Ahhh, there we go. S. The acronym is complete.
What do you mean we're right where we started?
I don't know what world you're living in, but God I wanna live there too.
had to be removed due to his personal discomfort...
Waiting for the next politician to feel personal discomfort with one of the other letters. Is the bar really that low?
Even if it did stand for BDSM, so what?
Folsom street represeeeeeent!
So what? If BDSM folks feel represented by LGBTQ+ they have every right to be part of it. What's wrong with BDSM anyway?
Not like LGBTQ+ promotes anything at all besides that it is okay to be who you are.
I feel like the vast majority of LGBTQIA2S people would be upset by zoophiles and pedophiles* feeling included by LGBTQ+. Personally I don't care if they're included or not. They're definitely GSRMs imo, so I don't think they need to be included in LGBTQ+. But a lot of them have the same issues of realizing their sexual attraction is not like their peers at some point and dealing with the fear of ostracization and violence if people found out what thoughts they have.
*Not to be confused with people who practice bestiality or child molestation.
"We accept you for who you are after we have judged you"
Even if it did, what's wrong with it?
I think the state has a responcability to act impartial. I find lgbt flags (or any none state or national flag, the confederacy flag would be inappropriate) on government buildings and the pledge of allegiance in school to be uncomfortable uses of state privilege to push agendas. Teaching kids in school about the existence of gay people and their normality, to me, is the time and place for the state to be both impartial while normalizing an important group of American citizen
Except that we are talking about a group that is being actively targeted by political and religious groups within the country (and the world tbh). Manifesting support for minorities falls well within any state's prerogatives.
I would concede that this is a mostly empty gesture in most places if not followed by actual tangible measures.
Why do these people hold a position of power?
Because 18-25 demographic never fucking votes.
They do. They are by far outnumbered by most older generations though.
Because there's not rank choice voting and no leftist options to vote for
Y'all do my eyes deceive me or is the "L" using the lipstick lesbian flag instead of the sunset?
Looks like the right one to me
I honestly have no view about this I just think there are a thousand more important problems than what attracts you and what you do in bed.
Gonna feel silly when they find out all the other letters represent BDSM too. Every community has a sub-set of people interested in BDSM. Cishet ppl too. :/
Who gives a fuck, even if it is? The people in this article are obviously homophobic but are cowards about going the whole way. BDSM isn't like that scene from Pulp Fiction. And BDSM is probably much, much more prevalent per 100k people as a straight thing, on raw numbers alone. And that's fine as well. Stop being so curious about what people are into. It's boring af.
Are we not doing the I in LGBTIQ+ anymore?
Has anyone checked with the Intersex crowd?