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

JotaroKujo said:
I feel I have to add a bit to my original sentiment: the main reason I feel "straight pride" is offensive is because gay pride was born out of the oppression that gay people have (and still are) endured. With all of the reasons I posted above (marriage, adoption,etc), what explanation can be given that would make anyone believe that heterosexuals have been oppressed like gays/lesbians/transgendered, and thus feel the need to have any kind of "straight pride"?
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You are absolutely right! Every one of your points is completely spot on

This is just another way for judgmental homophobic d-bags to further mock the LGBT community
 
I have seen the photos of the two T-shirts. How many were screen-printed? Twenty perhaps, thirty?
Has anyone here seen one being worn?
 
Both "Gay Pride" and "Straight Pride" offend me! I would not wear any of them.

I'm with Magaret Cho...I prefer to wear "Slut Pride" :lol:
 
BADgreek said:
It's a T-shirt. I don't find clothing offensive.
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I find clothing offensive!

At least when it's on hawt people -- they shouldn't be allowed to wear any. :badgrin:

rareboy said:
Always remember that pride is the deadliest of the 7 deadly sins.

And it goeth before a fall.
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That's why Gay Pride festivals are in the summer -- they go before Fall. :p


I think we should get a thousand or so of them, and add one small modification, in small print down at the bottom:

Don't you just hate dicks that curve?​
 
"Straight Pride" is as offensive as "White Pride," and for the same reasons.

When the dominant group expresses "pride," what they're really expressing is bigotry. Their position in society is not equivalent to that of one of the downtrodden groups, and pretending it is is ridiculous at best.
 
The other day I see this guy wearing a yellow tshirt and in black letters it says "Bareback"(!) Then I look again and it said "barback". #-o
 
pat grimshaw said:
^ I was going on Críostóir's earlier-expressed views in that controversial thread about the 'Tomahawk Chop' and assuming he was generalising to mean that ANY pride expressed by ANY dominant group is bigotry.
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Pride in their membership in the dominant group. Yes, it is. They're not talking about pride in, say, being white...but in NOT being nonwhite.

I recall a radio piece covering a KKK rally somewhere or other. Their rejoinder to being called a bunch of idiots (and other things) was the very clever "at least we're white!"

"Yeah," was my reply (at the radio), "well, so is bird shit."
 
pat grimshaw said:
^ OK. So it's OK to feel Hoboken Pride, or NY Pride or American Pride.
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You're being silly again, pat. Regional pride is entirely different. And Hoboken isn't dominant in ANY sense!

I'm an American patriot, though I probably don't mean what you'd assume. The "Proud to be an American" folks are not my friends, because they're not talking about pride or patriotism as I understand either, but about their belief in American exceptionalism, which is a repulsive philosophy.
 
I used to be proud to be an American, but the aftermath of 9/11, especially but not only the invasion of Iraq and the atrocities committed at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay (and other less well-known sites) have shamed us, and me. If I went abroad now and told people I was an American (like they wouldn't know!), I'd add "...but it's not my fault!"
 
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^ yes Críostóir, I knew you'd come around with that line. As long as you're not a 'fifth-columnist'. :)
 
pat grimshaw said:
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^ yes Críostóir, I knew you'd come around with that line. As long as you're not a 'fifth-columnist'. :)
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1. I went to the anti-war marches, wrote extensively about what would happen in Iraq (it did), and even campaigned for John Kerry (a hamster, but it was ABBA at that point).

2. More than four columns make the page hard to read. I know what you meant!
 
It seems like the only type of people who'd where straight pride shirts are homophobes who want to send the message "Marriage is only between a man and a woman, couples should only be between a man and a woman!"

It's sort of like white people who are all "White power!!!" You're already in the majority and have it better than all the minorities with every having right available to you, why would you need it?

Especially for the straight pride. When is someone EVER discriminated against for being straight?
 
Not really offended. It just looks stupid on the person.

Although the white one with the medieval lettering gives me a weird white supremacist vibe.
 
Frosty said:
It seems like the only type of people who'd where straight pride shirts are homophobes who want to send the message "Marriage is only between a man and a woman, couples should only be between a man and a woman!"

It's sort of like white people who are all "White power!!!" You're already in the majority and have it better than all the minorities with every having right available to you, why would you need it?

Especially for the straight pride. When is someone EVER discriminated against for being straight?
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This is pretty much how I feel. I don't have a problem with it, but the intentions behind the person wearing that rubs me the wrong way. Just like other people said, it's like people who wear ''white power'' stuff. Most of the time they are not only wearing it because they are proud, but also because they want to wear it in spite of people wearing ''gay pride'' shirts. They are more so doing it to show how wrong the other people are, as opposed to showing how proud they are to be whatever. It would be like if gay people wore the "gay pride" shirts because they hated straight people or thought being straight was wrong.

Would it make me a hypocrite to say I find these shirts offensive? Yea. But it's not the shirts I find offensive, its more so the sentiment behind them. But I'm sure any person wearing a straight pride shirt, just like a white power shirt, would say that they are just proud and have no harsh feelings against others :rolleyes:
 
I think it depends on who is wearing it. If I saw one of my friends wearing that, I probably wouldn't care because I know they're wearing it as a joke. But at the same time, 'gay pride' only exists because there is homophobia. No one is prejudice against straight people, at least not on a level that they would need to have a pride parade to fight against discrimination. As an earlier poster is said, everyone is just assumed to be straight anyway so there's no need for it.
 
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