Does Pride seem a little...monochrome this year? Parades are cancelled. Just Stop Oil are protesting against Pride. Maoris blocked a parade with a Haka. Corporations previously eager to hitch their wagons to the parade floats are suddenly going hetero again. Kids are actually learning things in school instead of having glittery testicles dangled in their faces.
What's behind the fall of Pride?
It started as a defiant march through brickbats and bigotry; then became a technicolour tyranny, an orthodoxy policed by rainbow zealots. The acronym is now longer than a Welsh railway sign. The LGB rebellion swelled bigger than Sam Smith's hammy bumcheeks in a jumpsuit, hoovering up asexuals, men dressed as puppies, heterosexual interlopers and gender contortionists who insist their pronouns must be memorised under threat of prosecution. Children became targets too, subjected to drag shows and dragged to marches by lefty parents, blurring boundaries that should stay razor sharp.
Regimented flags echoed fascism; children were arrested for disrespecting crosswalks; corporations hoisted flags out of fear of criticism - it all felt a bit forced, as if progressive ideologues had captured our institutions and were using our money to force their rigid worldview on us.
Then Trump revealed that's exactly what had happened. And he turned off the taps.
Money was behind corporate Pride-mania too, with companies using rainbows to make themselves eligible for ESG funding. As the tide went out on woke investing, businesses discovered that pandering to a tiny market of far-left gender goblins didn't boost beer or swimsuit sales.
Incredibly, Pride even turned on gays, with lesbians excommunicated for the "bigotry" of refusing to "try a girl dick". Stroud Pride warned that "We will be taking extra care not to allow performers who hold harmful views such as lesbian, gay and bisexual views." Police threw lesbians off a parade in Cardiff. Roxanne Tickle used the courts to bully his way into a lesbian dating app. Pride started as a backlash to homophobia - now the homophobes are in control.
Parents started questioning whether drugging, sterilising and maiming children really was "kindness" and if the strange men desperate to wear fetish gear in the school library and inform children that they're born in the wrong body really have the noblest of intentions.
Now, fatigued from virtue's excess, people are pulling down flags, boycotting beers and leaving the rainbows in the closet. What's the cure for Pride Fatigue? Given the state of Western society, perhaps what’s really needed next year isn’t another Pride Month, but a simple, honest week of shame.
Hippo's Opinion: I'm bisexual and I wholeheartedly agree with Leo's opinion; the original Gay Pride movement has been hijacked by the deranged, the unhappy, and the unhinged. Being Heterosexual, Homosexual, or Bisexual are sexual orientations - it defines who you like to fuck. Nothing else. But this recent Queer pandemic has (dare I say) perverted something that originally sought equality for all into something that screams for individuality, indignation, and insanity. I feel no pride for what PRIDE has become.
What's behind the fall of Pride?
It started as a defiant march through brickbats and bigotry; then became a technicolour tyranny, an orthodoxy policed by rainbow zealots. The acronym is now longer than a Welsh railway sign. The LGB rebellion swelled bigger than Sam Smith's hammy bumcheeks in a jumpsuit, hoovering up asexuals, men dressed as puppies, heterosexual interlopers and gender contortionists who insist their pronouns must be memorised under threat of prosecution. Children became targets too, subjected to drag shows and dragged to marches by lefty parents, blurring boundaries that should stay razor sharp.
Regimented flags echoed fascism; children were arrested for disrespecting crosswalks; corporations hoisted flags out of fear of criticism - it all felt a bit forced, as if progressive ideologues had captured our institutions and were using our money to force their rigid worldview on us.
Then Trump revealed that's exactly what had happened. And he turned off the taps.
Money was behind corporate Pride-mania too, with companies using rainbows to make themselves eligible for ESG funding. As the tide went out on woke investing, businesses discovered that pandering to a tiny market of far-left gender goblins didn't boost beer or swimsuit sales.
Incredibly, Pride even turned on gays, with lesbians excommunicated for the "bigotry" of refusing to "try a girl dick". Stroud Pride warned that "We will be taking extra care not to allow performers who hold harmful views such as lesbian, gay and bisexual views." Police threw lesbians off a parade in Cardiff. Roxanne Tickle used the courts to bully his way into a lesbian dating app. Pride started as a backlash to homophobia - now the homophobes are in control.
Parents started questioning whether drugging, sterilising and maiming children really was "kindness" and if the strange men desperate to wear fetish gear in the school library and inform children that they're born in the wrong body really have the noblest of intentions.
Now, fatigued from virtue's excess, people are pulling down flags, boycotting beers and leaving the rainbows in the closet. What's the cure for Pride Fatigue? Given the state of Western society, perhaps what’s really needed next year isn’t another Pride Month, but a simple, honest week of shame.
Hippo's Opinion: I'm bisexual and I wholeheartedly agree with Leo's opinion; the original Gay Pride movement has been hijacked by the deranged, the unhappy, and the unhinged. Being Heterosexual, Homosexual, or Bisexual are sexual orientations - it defines who you like to fuck. Nothing else. But this recent Queer pandemic has (dare I say) perverted something that originally sought equality for all into something that screams for individuality, indignation, and insanity. I feel no pride for what PRIDE has become.
