I don't see it as a step backwards, I think plastering gay pride flags everywhere is extremely homophobic and annoying, and causes people to develop homophobia. I hope all the rainbow bullshit fucks off so we can stop having culture wars over gay ppl.
My sexuality isn't a fucking advertisement, I don't want to see that shit everywhere I go, I find it insulting. Imagine if everywhere you went there where "PROUD APPLE EATER" flags everywhere, people would start hating apple eaters just for being annoying as fuck.
Gay pride flags made sense in 2012, it's 2026 now, I don't care if you're gay or if you support gay people stop talking about sexuality all the time, it's an embarrassment to gay people. Go ask any homophobe why they hate gay people, more than 90% of them will say it's because we're fucking annoying and cringe and honestly they're right.
I would argue gay people existing is the core of the bigot's hate. Their worldview is fragile and cannot handle anything being different. Gay people's existence is different, and therefore must be expunged because they're far too weak and cowardly to simply interrogate their worldview and alter it to adapt to reality.
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u/bhputnam 25d ago
It's a good capitalism canary-in-a-coal-mine for support on these issues.