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Do you consider "straight pride" T-shirts offensive?

Completely agree with AaronG, elvin, Críostóir!

Straight pride is redudant and pointless. No one is told they're going to hell for being straight. No one is disowned by their parents because they like the opposite sex. A man doesn't lose his job because he reveals he has a wife. No one bats an eye to a guy and a girl kissing in public. A straight teen doesn't receive insults and snide remarks because he likes baseball and rock music. A football player doesn't have to "play it gay" so no one will suspect he's dating the head cheerleader. There aren't any derogatory names for straight people and if there is, it isn't widely used. Heterosexuals are never made to feel ashamed or less of a person. When someone's straight, it's just a part of them. But when someone's gay, it's their whole identity. It's all straight people can think and talk about when they see "gay Travis" or "You mean Dana, the lesbian one, right?" Heterosexuality is ubiquitous, encouraged, and expected. There is no struggle or adversity they have to overcome because of their sexuality. It's supported by society.

Homosexuality, for the most part, isn't. We usually have to fight our way through a lot of crap in order to feel the way heterosexuals do about themselves. Gay pride means that I'm confident in myself, that I'm not ashamed of who attracts me, that I can brush off the homophobes and haters, that I have made it through the battlefield. We aren't whining or using our sexuality as a clutch. The message isn't "I'm better than you."; it's "I'm equal to you, and I'm damn proud of it."

As gay men, I don't see how you guys can't comprehend this.
 
saymyname said:
It's totally fucking homophobic and offensive. Yadda yadda ya. Heterosexism etc. People have already covered why and if you don't get it you don't look at things deeply enough. There is no need for the majority to "defend" themselves by making it known that they aren't ashamed. Our entire society is perpetuated by their ideology. They aren't marginalized like we are: those t-shirts translate to, I'm proud to be straight because I'm not a faggot.
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Right on!

stacyphierce said:
I think it is less about being homophobic and more about being jealous.

Straight people don't have the balls, the strength and the true pride to actually know the meaning of the word.

So they're copying the shirts thinking it makes them cool.

Really it just makes them more of a tool.
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Wow, that's an optimistic and charitable view. I'd have to be a better person than I am to buy it, I'm afraid.

Ephemeral said:
Completely agree with AaronG, elvin, Críostóir!

Straight pride is redudant and pointless. No one is told they're going to hell for being straight. No one is disowned by their parents because they like the opposite sex. A man doesn't lose his job because he reveals he has a wife. No one bats an eye to a guy and a girl kissing in public. A straight teen doesn't receive insults and snide remarks because he likes baseball and rock music. A football player doesn't have to "play it gay" so no one will suspect he's dating the head cheerleader. There aren't any derogatory names for straight people and if there is, it isn't widely used. Heterosexuals are never made to feel ashamed or less of a person. When someone's straight, it's just a part of them. But when someone's gay, it's their whole identity. It's all straight people can think and talk about when they see "gay Travis" or "You mean Dana, the lesbian one, right?" Heterosexuality is ubiquitous, encouraged, and expected. There is no struggle or adversity they have to overcome because of their sexuality. It's supported by society.

Homosexuality, for the most part, isn't. We usually have to fight our way through a lot of crap in order to feel the way heterosexuals do about themselves. Gay pride means that I'm confident in myself, that I'm not ashamed of who attracts me, that I can brush off the homophobes and haters, that I have made it through the battlefield. We aren't whining or using our sexuality as a clutch. The message isn't "I'm better than you."; it's "I'm equal to you, and I'm damn proud of it."

As gay men, I don't see how you guys can't comprehend this.
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Well said, my friend. Well said. :gogirl:
 
>>>Wow, that's an optimistic and charitable view. I'd have to be a better person than I am to buy it, I'm afraid.

Yeah, the first term I thought of when she said "it makes them more like a tool" was "charitable". :)

Lex
 
G-Lexington said:
>>>Wow, that's an optimistic and charitable view. I'd have to be a better person than I am to buy it, I'm afraid.

Yeah, the first term I thought of when she said "it makes them more like a tool" was "charitable". :)

Lex
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I think it's more charitable to think they're just dumb kids trying to climb on the "X Pride" bandwagon than to think, as I do, that they're homophobic shitheads.
 
It's not offensive, but it's pointless. The breeders own the whole damn world and we are still second class citizens. Wearing a gay pride T-shirt (outside of the gay village) can be a huge step for one us.

I'll never forget the Saturday day night I wore a gay pride t-shirt into a rough, straight Latino, thug bar on hip-hop night. The security guard sitting on the stool outside nearly choked, but i was determined to do it anyway. I still think about that night today. I think I earned some respect from that crowd, which was accepting.

A "straight pride" T-shirt pales in comparison. It's a great, big, meaningless nothing.
 
No. I guess the straights thought it was a catchy saying and adopted it. After all, didn't we adopt if from Black Pride?

Oh I know, you're talking about the straight community's militant affront to our sexuality. So, yeah. It is offensive.
 
Come on. I hate homophobes as much as any of you, but "straight pride" probably doesn't even exist like that. I think it's more of a "lol, gay pride? how about straight pride?" parody. It's something you'd probably find on BustedTees.
 
My father told me that any man who uses his clothes to express his thoughts doesn't have anything worth hearing anyway. *shrugs
 
Aaron and Elvin hit the nail on the head.
Thanks for saving me all that typing guys.
(and you said it better than I could too)
 
Can't say that I find it offensive at all, a bit funny but not offensive. If they wanna make an idiotic statement like that is their right to do so, just like its our right to make our statement.
 
I like this shirt best.
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Actually, to be "on topic" ... why destroy someone's "feel good" feeling about him/herself! It's not something that's going to hurt someone ... so, why not ... go for it! ENJOY!

:gogirl:
 
I'd say pointless more than offensive.

Have straight people traditionally been persecuted or made to feel ashamed of themselves just because of their sexuality? The answer is no – so why bother promoting 'Straight Pride'.

Having said that, straight people are entitled to be proud if they like, as we all should be able to be proud of who we are (even if we don't have to advertise it on a T-shirt).
 
hornyshauny said:
I'd say pointless more than offensive.

Have straight people traditionally been persecuted or made to feel ashamed of themselves just because of their sexuality? The answer is no – so why bother promoting 'Straight Pride'.

Having said that, straight people are entitled to be proud if they like, as we all should be able to be proud of who we are (even if we don't have to advertise it on a T-shirt).
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( straight people are entitled to be proud if they like )


Theres is a JUST PEOPLEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

but lot minoritys keepin lock up in labels till WORLD FIGURE IT OUT#-o

#-o
 
hornyshauny said:
I'd say pointless more than offensive.

Have straight people traditionally been persecuted or made to feel ashamed of themselves just because of their sexuality? The answer is no – so why bother promoting 'Straight Pride'.

Having said that, straight people are entitled to be proud if they like, as we all should be able to be proud of who we are (even if we don't have to advertise it on a T-shirt).
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I agree with your "pointless" comment as well as anyone being "entitled to be proud." I also agree with the fact that we don't have to advertise it on a T-shirt to be proud. So, why respond? Simple ...

For everyone who's out there showing off his/her pride for whatever reason in the way of a T-shirt, it gives important to anyone and everyone else who does. So, whatever the "pride," it makes "our" pride more significant in the grand scheme of things -- and, as a person who enjoy a diverse community, it helps signify a sense of "community" among diverse human beings.

Just my thoughts and opinions.
 
asadoyayunta said:
Well you would say that wouldn't you! As a bisexual, presumably you can "pass".
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And so it begins.


On topic, I don't find it offensive.

I do think that we read the shirts differently to them, though - we see it as stupid at worst, some sort of massive satire at best. They see it as something else entirely. In a way, everyone wins.

Also, being a white guy in Africa and constantly blamed for all manner of things from droughts to AIDS, I don't find a white pride t-shirt offensive either. I'm tired of being apologetic and held accountable and I'm tired of being treated like shit for the sins of the proverbial father.

-d-
 
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