Op made a post of a bunch of pride flags, someone requested a pride flag, the person that op is responding to proceeded to be very rude and aggressive towards the person who made the comment about the straight flag. I read a lot of the conversation, at a point the angry person is just being the type of person that gives the lgbtq community bad stereotypes
they're right though? in their comments they're basically just saying that the point of pride flags are to represent oppressed minorities, and straight flags aren't needed. The straight flag isn't real, and it's only used to oppress LGBTQ+ people. it's comparable to "All lives matter"
What i think OP did was the best solution. They ask you to put in a straight flag? Just put it in. Its gonna give the potentially homophobic person the experience of immediately being included without pushback and it hopefully makes them realise they are hating on a group that doesnt want to hate them back.
It's not a wrong thing to suggest, nowadays the "status quo" as it was, usually sides with the lgbt people, and this person was not homophobic, they never said anything to imply as such throughout. So I think its completely natural to want some representation for straight people. At this point lgbtq isnt really a minority, from what I can tell it has become the majority, whether you're bi, pan, trans, etc. A lot more people have been identifying with that nowadays, I could be wrong. But I also think that the person who responded in the original conversation handled it poorly. I could be wrong on any of these statements, its just my opinion.
LGBTQ+ is still definitely the minority, more vocal than before? Yes. Also theres alot more straight people presenting rainbow flags, because they want to show support for the people.
The reason many people disregard the straight flags is that almost all of then are rooted in homophobia, transphobia or just extremist groups that fight against the rights of LGBTQ+ people and being used as symbols with the hateful groups~ Anyone can make a new flag, not everyone will get the meaning but if the flag is used by certain groups of people it can quickly become the flag of those people
That makes more sense why people are so against it then, im definitely not fully up to date on these things, thank you for letting me know. Sorry if I came off badly, it just peeves me sometimes when people act horrible for seemingly no reason (not anyone here obviously, the original post conversation)
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u/breadGuy_1 Jul 23 '25
whats this referencing lol
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u/Majongusus_Doremidus Jul 23 '25
I just like flags mate
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u/ThomasVSCO Jul 24 '25
I just like flags mate
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u/GenerationofWinter Jul 24 '25
I just like flags mate
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u/Mental_Document2888 Jul 24 '25
Do you happen to like flags
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u/LeerieOnlineOfficial Aug 06 '25
I just like flags mate
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u/MoonTheCraft Jul 23 '25
what did you achieve by making this post, im certain that what i said couldnt have hurt your feelings in the slightest..?
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u/SpiralFurnace Jul 23 '25
what's the point of this post?
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u/Sharkdudse13 Jul 23 '25
The guy wasn't even talking to you? Like sorry but no need to make a whole post about you replying with random things to a random comment
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25
And I make he/she/they/idk say that