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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 174 points 4 weeks ago

So you're the one who stole my bath towel.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 126 points 4 weeks ago

Yes I collect gay bath towels

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 32 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

How can you tell the sexuality of a towel?

edit: I think some people thought I was asking about identifying the gender of the towel. As much as I never thought I'd have to write anything like this sentence: I was asking how to identify the partnership preferred by a towel, rather than anything to do with its hypothetical undercarriage.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 23 points 4 weeks ago
[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

Wow, toweldar.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago

If you notice they get wet before you've used them to towel off, congrats, they're into you. If they're dry as a bone when you use them, they're really not enjoying it, at all. It's not rocket science.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 weeks ago

Ugh, I can't believe my towel is only into me after it's been used by my partner.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

This might help determine whether or not they enjoy the company of a particular gender, but you couldn't use this method to identify, for example, bisexuality. Unless you take group showers, I guess.

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[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 weeks ago

Well, there are worse hobbies...

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

So you're saying my bi bath towels were taken by someone else?

[-] artifex@piefed.social 119 points 4 weeks ago

Don't tempt them. It's hard enough to cross the street as it is.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 61 points 4 weeks ago

lol .... conservatives would be the first to happily just get rid of cross walks altogether ... both to not acknowledge LGBTQ+ and also to give more freedom to vehicles and get rid of "pedestrians"

[-] SGforce@lemmy.ca 29 points 4 weeks ago

A good wholesome road needs to be safe for our traditional family SUVs and free of these dangerous ((pedestrians)).

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[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 5 points 4 weeks ago

"It's for the children! No more crosswalks! Just frogger it, kids!" -Ron DeSantis

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[-] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 70 points 4 weeks ago

I like this idea. It’s like depressed version of pride flag, indicating LGBTQ people are repressed and in pain

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 weeks ago
[-] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 4 weeks ago

Perfect for Florida!

[-] Steve@startrek.website 35 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, a distress flag

[-] aramova@infosec.pub 44 points 4 weeks ago

To be honest those twats would already be on board with that.

"Crosswalks? The fuck, you ain't driving your truck across the street to get there? It too damn far!"

-- Florida Man

[-] warm@kbin.earth 24 points 4 weeks ago

Just adopt red and white stripes. See what they do then

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[-] Cevilia 17 points 4 weeks ago

Nobody tell them about the cishet ally flag which is almost exactly this... ;)

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

Having just checked that flag, damn, we don’t get any fun colors?!?

[-] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 13 points 4 weeks ago

The ally flag gets fun colors! It’s the black and white background with a rainbow ∧ shape. I wear this as a pin sometimes. Also my favorite restaurant has one hanging proudly inside.

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 weeks ago

I am 100% in favor of the message behind this flag, but holy crap it's a real eyesore. Same with the Progress Pride flag and some of the other LGBTQ flags. I keep hoping some skilled graphic designers out there will come up with cleaner designs.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Idk, I like the Progress Pride flag. Imo it makes sense and represents pretty much everyone. Yeah it has a lot of colors, but the design itself is pretty straightforward

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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah tbh. And it aligns better with the concept of sexuality/gender being more of a spectrum than rigidly designated buckets.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 36 points 4 weeks ago

Isn't the rainbow meant to represent the spectrum. Like how rainbows show the visible spectrum of light?

[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 27 points 4 weeks ago

It would be a lot prettier that way

[-] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 19 points 4 weeks ago

Are you trying to get the entire dcip3 banned??

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 weeks ago

I thought of this because of your comment.

[-] birdwing 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Ironically Bryan doesn't even understand the Bible, as God in the very Bible is described with not just masculine but also feminine and neutral attributes.

They for example are described as being beyond humankind, yet the latter proceeding forth from them. Guy, gal, all proceeding forth from God; in other words, God isn't a man, woman, but beyond either.

It's ragebait that he posts and either he knows what he's doing (likely), or he's just that dumb/hateful (also likely).


The Bible itself is also pretty contradictionary. For example. God punishes slavery, by releasing the refugees from Egyptian servantry; yet he rewards Adam for snitching on Eve, and makes Eve a slave to him.

The closest analogy to the fictional God is a power-tripping CEO like that of United Health.

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[-] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago

Sure it has every color but does it have our specific color?

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[-] birdwing 4 points 4 weeks ago

These are all straight lines, give me the real gay flag

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 weeks ago

It... is kind of a giant mess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBTQ) is a good summary but the modern rainbow color scheme is a somewhat recent iteration.

But much as "LGBT" has become "LGBTQ" and "LGBTQIA" and "LGBTQIA+" and so forth, so too have the flag added and removed stripes. And... a lot of that is intentional animosity since a shocking number of LGBTQIA+ folk are actually REALLY bigoted (the old "jokes" about how bisexual people need to "choose a side" and so forth) and it becomes a whole thing.

[-] Cevilia 7 points 4 weeks ago

I love the intersex-inclusive progress pride flag, which adds designs to the left that explicitly include three under-represented groups (BIPOC, trans+, and intersex).

I once had someone, in earnest, complain at me that if we kept adding chevrons, the flag would have to get wider, and showed me an image that was like 1000 pixels by 20.

And then got mad at me when I asked if I could have that as a scarf :)

[-] birdwing 5 points 4 weeks ago

Personally, the way I view it, the rainbow is most flexible, as it literally includes everyone (queer and nonqueer), and the progress pride (as in, pride + triangle with whatever is in there) mostly functions as an acknowledgement of especially repressed groups.

View it like how countries have their national days, or how there are weeks of reading focused on a particular theme or subject (school homework included). That, but for queer stuff.

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[-] s@piefed.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

It’s giving “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”

[-] twice_hatch@midwest.social 8 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago

Don't give Florida ideas

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago

Florida always at the ready for ideas that can harm children.

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[-] RedStrider@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

beatles pride flag

[-] BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social 4 points 4 weeks ago

Why is Red on the left and Blue on the right? Don't tell the MAGA crowd or they will try to pass another law...

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[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Just adopt the Florida state flag?

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