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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 170 points 1 year ago

If I saw this, I'd immediately assume it's a variation on the bi pride flag.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 74 points 1 year ago

"Nice flag. So you fellas go both ways?"

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Missing the purple, though.

Having only two colors, clearly delineated, makes the flag worthless as a means of conveying anything, so they had to broadcast what it means with big, braindead-obvious symbols.

Frankly, that definitely looks like a straight pride flag, in that it's boring, binary, with absolutely zero sense of style, subtlety, or iconography.

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[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 119 points 1 year ago
[-] Godort@lemm.ee 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"So which one of you is the 'girl'?"

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 year ago

The one on the right, don't you see the flag?

[-] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 year ago
[-] ray@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago

The far right

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

You’re both right!

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[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 86 points 1 year ago

The two guys holding up the straight pride flag look like they unhappily fuck their wives at home once every quarter to prove that they don't love the cocks that they shamefully suck every weekend.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 73 points 1 year ago

They don't look very proud.

[-] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 60 points 1 year ago

Isn't being proud of your sexuality mostly a response to being shamed by bigots for your sexuality? Like: parts of society look down on my sexuality? Well fuck you, I'm proud of it! If you're not being shamed at all, isn't a bit weird to be proud of such things? As if you did anything to become a heterosexual. No one cares, nor should they.

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 32 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that is the whole point. The whole point is not "I am proud of who I am attracted to", the point is "I am proud of being open about who I am attracted to despite the bigots and social challenges".

Which is why there is no "straight pride", "blond pride", or "high school student pride". There is no glory in doing something that is statistically speaking, completely devoid of interest...

[-] Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Yup. This is essentially the same as people suddenly screaming about "WHITE PRIDE!!!!" in response to things like Black Live Matter.

The entire point is a minority not letting the majority shame or otherize them. The the majority freaks out and responses with "ME TO BUT BETTER THAN YOU DID IT!".

It's pathetic.

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

You're not wrong but all the gays I know have way better taste than that abomination.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 46 points 1 year ago

Looks like two guys holding it up. Kind of ironic

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They look like two Russian brothers who have bought a third tier football club purely as some sort of elaborate tax evasion ruse.

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[-] Daerun@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago
[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Ain't no women proud of being straight. "I have to put up with dudes to get off 💪" - nobody ever

[-] franklin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

These people are douches but that's a really toxic attitude

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I wish tone carried better in text, it was not written in earnest. But if you have to explain or defend a joke it's not a good one, so I apologize.

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[-] Luminocta@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Go speak for yourself maybe?

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[-] M500@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago

I always thought it would be funny if “s” was added to “lgbtq” for straight.

Then when someone has a problem with “lgbtqs”, you can be like “you’re not straight?”

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[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago

So, I have a few issues with the design.

Setting aside for a second how dumb this shit is, the design has some very questionable decisions.

First I couldn't care less about the "man" and "woman" signs, they're linked, and gold, which I assume is some reference to marriage? I've never understood the symbology of those symbols. I think they're tacky and archaic. I don't inherently have an issue with their use in the design. My main issues with the design are with the colors. That's not a super great shade of blue or pink. On top of that, the "man" symbol is almost entirely on the pink side, and the woman symbol is almost entirely on the blue side. Additionally, representing a boy as blue and girl as pink is pretty questionable as well. I would have expected something like this in the 80's or 90's, but today? What? It's just strange.

Why a slash? Why is it going from top left to bottom right? I have to many questions. It's like there was no thought in the brain of whomever put this together, and they didn't ask anyone to review it before having it made.

Now, flipping the coin here, what exactly do straight people have to be proud of? I'm straight, and I don't know. Is it pride in the decisions that we've made which facilitate the perpetration of humanity? Is humanity really something we should be proud of and continue to perpetuate? We've committed an untold number of unspeakable horrors to eachother, animals, and nature. Are we perpetuating the species so we can continue to rape and kill the planet and eachother? Either figuratively or literally? Don't get me wrong, humans have achieved some remarkable things despite our obvious issues; but still, does any of that outweigh the horrors we've inflicted? I'm not so sure that perpetuating humanity is anything to be proud of.

Are we proud of our heritage? Our lineage? The long genetic lines of aforementioned horrible people? Who enslaved others and called it progress? Who committed all those previously mentioned terrible things?

So historical pride is questionable, and pride of purpose is questionable.... What's left? Just being proud of who you are? Pride in being a human who is straight? What for?

I don't understand. I have no pride for who I am naturally, and who I am attracted to. I have no pride in the things my race, gender, or sexual orientation has done. The straights have been responsible for pretty much all the pain and suffering of everyone who is "deviant".

I don't know why anyone would be proud of that.

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago

I think people like this believe that non-straight folks have an agenda to make straight folks* feel ashamed of being straight. As in - if you're proud of being gay, that means you must think being not-gay is a bad thing. And so they feel attacked. It's so brainless and reactionary.

* Or white, or Christian, or insert whatever not-really-persecuted-but-thinks-they-are group here

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[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

They totally finger blasted each other after this

[-] match@pawb.social 36 points 1 year ago

if you fuck under the straight flag it's like super no homo

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[-] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

That's not the straight flag. The straight flag is horizontal black and white stripes and has been around for about 20 years.

The ally flag is the straight flag with a rainbow "A" on it. If you've been to Pride, you have probably seen flags or pins with that design.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_flag#:~:text=A%20flag%20composed%20of%20alternating,originating%20in%20the%20early%202000s.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

I'm straight and I disavow this flag because it's fucking boring.

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[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

NEWSFLASH!!! People scared of homosexuality are actually scared that they'll become homosexuals. That's right, they're so insecure with their own sexuality, they're concerned that by allowing homosexuality, they'll be the first to succumb to gayness.

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[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Alex Jones and Andrew Tate have seen much better days...

[-] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago

That's not a "straight pride" flag, that's a "doubling down on our anti-LGBTQ+ agenda because they dare to defy us with their own flag" flag. I'm straight, that flag does not represent me, it represents bigoted fucks. There are already several flags for that.

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[-] jadero@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 year ago

That flag is a horrible design, but how does something "look gay?"

[-] Glowstick@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's (unintentionally?) lots of symbolism here that reads as lgbtq. The male symbol being in the pink area, the female symbol being in the blue area, the male symbol has its erect phallus arrow pointing away from the female symbol, the parts of both symbols that are the same (the rings) are the only parts that touch each other, the overlapping rings create a shape that's very evocative of a butt, the background color field is at a steep angle making it very much not straight with the horizon of the flag and not straight with the orientation of the gendered symbols.

Plus in this particular photo it's two men holding the same flag which is supposed to be representing a sexuality, and the phallus of the male symbol points right at one of the men, and the material of the flag looks very satiny which is considered a very effeminate look.

All in all, it's harder to find symbolism here that actually reads as straight rather than lgbtq.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

All in all, it’s harder to find symbolism here that actually reads as straight rather than lgbtq.

It's much harder to come up with something genuinely more gay. This is possibly the gayest image I have ever seen.

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[-] weariedfae@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No shade intended but by any chance are you Gen Z or younger?

If so, there's some ingrained toxic social more context you might not understand because you grew up in a better society than we did.

But if you're genuinely asking...

  • Anything that acknowledges women exist? Gay
  • Anything that recognizes men in relation to others instead of as the default? Believe it or not, gay
  • Anything that involves sharing? Gay
  • Pink? Gay
  • Blue? Also gay
  • Pink and blue? Liberace
  • Diagonal lines? Gay
  • The male/female Mars/Venus signs? Gay
  • The Venus sign on a blue background? Lesbian
  • Mars sign on a pink background? Flaming gay
  • Two men standing near each other? friends of Dorothy
  • Two men holding a flag together? Gay
  • The way the one guy is pinching the corner? Super fucking gay
  • Wearing a teal shirt? Gay
  • Wearing a yellow tie? Gay

I could keep going but I think you might get the picture.

Edit: formatting

[-] CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

I still have relatives that say "ugh that's gay" to mean "I don't like that".

I don't speak to these relatives anymore.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It took me years to break that habit. I also worked really hard not to use the r word to mean I think something is fucking stupid.

It was common to use both of those when I was a kid. It didn't occur to me at the time that it might hurt someone (again, stupid kid). I've still caught myself using the r word on a rare occasion but I can keep trying.

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[-] CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

I'm 40, and when I first opened the image, I was overwhelmed with how hilariously gay it looked. But not in a bad way - almost at if it were made unironically for lgbtq.

The other person that replied to you with a lengthy list is spot on.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Except for white its the same general colors as in the trans flag, maybe thats why people associate it with lgbt+ flags

[-] Ioughttamow@kbin.run 14 points 1 year ago

Guess you’re not a 90s kid!

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago
[-] Stern@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

Those flags look like shit imo. That article is quite something though

In 2019, the American organization Super Happy Fun America led a straight pride parade in Boston, in the United States, in August of the same year

Super Happy Fun America

Super Happy Fun America (SHFA) is a Massachusetts-based right-wing political organization. SHFA and its leaders are known for their ties to white nationalism and the far-right

That name and logo combined with that description, wow

In 2021, a social media trend called "super straight" emerged on TikTok on 21 February and later spread to other websites like 4chan, Reddit and Twitter. Supporters stated that "super straight" was a new sexuality describing heterosexuals who would never have a sexual relationship with transgender people. Its originator said he created the term because he was tired of being called transphobic.

From TikTok to 4chan. Future is now, old man.

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Its originator said he created the term because he was tired of being called transphobic.

Yep, definitely the only sane response to being called transphobic because he couldn't keep his shitty opinions to himself.

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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Gold?

You idiots! There's nothing gayer than gold!

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 points 1 year ago

I though the official Straight Pride flag was in black and white (no grey areas or ambiguity), with a male symbol on top of a female symbol (depicting the hierarchy of dominance the sorts of people who would have such a flag consider the only acceptable order)

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[-] Cipher22@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I'm confused at why an LGBTQ community wouldn't take the strategy of forceful adoption. Mostly under the point that they offer a home to all. However, it would negate any exclusion arguments against those communities.

Take your adversaries symbols and make them yours kinda thing. A Yankee Doodle approach.

"Where's muh straight flag?"

"Right here sparky."

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