Anonymous #1 9w

I love the smell of deleted comments in the morning

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Anonymous #11 9w

There are many child friendly pride events. Intentionally bringing your children to a non child friendly pride event is your problem, not everyone else’s. Also, I don’t remember who said it but no one’s going there completely naked. I’ve also never heard of people going there with their genitals out. So, that leaves me to think you’re really talking about boobs when you call it flashing. Boobs are not inherently sexual, children are not harmed by seeing them

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You are. You keep using right wing talking points, with a right wing syntax, and using the terms “liberal” and “democrat” as if they mean the same thing as “leftist.” If you aren’t right wing, you sure act exactly like you would if you were. The “three” thing from inglorious basterds? That’s you.

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delusional people fr. also them just assuming what you actually mean or say based off of the vocabulary you use. they just want to argue and feel right about themselves. i have never seen so many lgbt people in one spot who are so insistent on excluding other lgbt people/families. it’s fucking sad that our community has come to this

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Anonymous #11 9w

There. Are. Child. Friendly. Pride events

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Anonymous #11 9w

Dude. No one who doesn’t consume right wing media writes like that, at least not without trying to. Like it or not, how someone communicates tells you more about them than what they communicate.

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Anonymous #1 9w

you need to get off the internet if you genuinely think that vocabulary is restricted to a political ideology. not everyone talks in a way that fits your idea of how someone believes politically. if you talked to anyone in real life, you’d see that easily. different people talk in different ways and automatically assigning a “side” to someone based solely off of how they talk shows how ignorant you are.

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It does to a degree. For example the “gay agenda” is right wing vocab people who aren’t right wing don’t have those words in their daily vocab….

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it’s actually brain dead how much mental gymnastics they’re using to justify this. there are lgbt teens, lgbt children, lgbt families, and they all have a right to go to pride and be comfortable. other lgbt folk who want pride to be more accessible to families does not mean they’re republican/right wing. pride does not belong to only one segment of the community, it is a celebration of the broad lgbt community, and that includes families.

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Anonymous #11 9w

There’s KID pride events and ADULT pride events for a reason😭 you guys are literally ignoring everything and just going in circles

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Anonymous #11 9w

I said “syntax,” not vocabulary. That’s an important distinction because syntax also includes grammar, framing, and voice, in this context. Your speech patterns (or dialect) are largely based on the speech patterns of those around you and the media you consume. This is very observable in real life, if anything it’s harder tell on the internet because it’s easier to fake a given dialect.

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It’s not about nudity. It’s never been about nudity, it will never be about nudity. To homophobes, girls kissing, men in drag, and all trans people are infinitely more obscene than nudity could ever be.

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Anonymous #11 9w

I feel like this conversation was already had but theres a difference between family friendly pride events (which is the parade and with all the tents outside, maybe there might be a tent that has stuff to educate ppl about safe sex with free condoms and maybe education about prep but they won’t give that to a child ofc) and the adult/21+ pride events which are at a different location/time and pretty hard to accidentally walk into, maybe your area is different but i don’t think anyone is-

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Anonymous #14 9w

-advocating for children to be flashed or harmed

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can yall like, go outside and touch grass? this conversation clearly isnt going to convince anyone of anything, so why keep is going?

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Wdym? No one here is saying children should be brought to these adult events where they could potentially be exposed to inappropriate things, ive only seen people saying theres a difference between the family friendly events and the ones made for adults/adult activities, like you wouldn’t bring a baby to a bar crawl

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Anonymous #14 9w

You made the assumption that every pride event is for all ages/crowds which is not at all the reality of these events and why its so important to have a good event planning team so these misunderstandings dont happen, ive never seen someone’s dih out at the events ive attended so again, may be your area having an issue, but its weird to project that onto the whole community & pride events

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Anonymous #14 9w

Tbh I don’t think this person has ever been to a pride event. I think they only know what Faux News told them…

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Anonymous #1 9w

Yeah I gotta agree, I hate that most of these open discussions just turn to bad faith shit slinging, like im sure theres an example or two of a mishandling or an individual doing something inappropriate but I hate how that is somehow used to ignore the reality of how these events are actually run and how the community actually functions, it seems like this guy thinks the community is somehow a hive mind with himself as an exception

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in what way would a child be harmed by seeing breasts? "LITERAL NUDITY" being the crux of your argument is so dumb. i went to events where there were nude adults in nonsexual contexts from the age of 8 or so and up. it's not actually damaging to kids to see a naked body if they’re not being put into dangerous or uncomfortable situations about it.

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also like its kind of irrelevant because like everyone on this thread has said over and over and over, there are some SFW pride events where kids are welcome, and some NSFW pride events where kids are not. bring your kid to the first kind if you're scared of boobs and butts

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Again, maybe im just in the dark about people being weird, but the events open to the pubic (like the actual parade and tents and such) do not have people exposing themselves any more than what a swimsuit would cover, no one has their bits hanging out in my experience. I’ve of course heard different things about some 21+ events, but again, you won’t just stumble into that while walking down the street.

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Kinda wanna block you and see who else disappears…

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Anonymous #14 9w

Not to mention that there is often the local police at these events so if anyone is exposing their bits in a publicly indecent way, they are dealt with. So im not sure where you get the idea that people are regularly doing sick things to children at these events.

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gotta add, some states you can be completely naked and its legal, some states you dont need to cover your tits. not just for pride, any time. if you’re moral outrage was with children seeing bits, why are you just limiting it to pride month?

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Anonymous #14 9w

funny you say cops will be there when everyone else is calling for cops to not be present. i’d hate to see what happens if someone decides to resort to violence and there’s no cops around. pick a struggle

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Anonymous #11 9w

Once again treating us as monolith, whether people feel safe around cops given how the law enforcement used to be used to harm & violate members of our community during bar raids is a different conversation, if you’re not ready for nuance and reality im not sure theres a point in continuing this

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Anonymous #11 9w

Most pride events I’ve been to have been local events that essentially boil down to gay flavored street fairs. These pride events where people show up in kink gear or are topless are ones in MAJOR cities. Though theres something to be said about certain events potentially creating safe places or times for kids, don’t act like every pride event has a topless lesbian prowling around the corner waiting to flash a child. Most of them are local and totally SFW from my experience

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Anonymous #22 9w

Conservatives call us perverts regardless, dumbass. To them, girls kissing is more obscene than nudity and violence could ever be

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