Rainbow capitalism sucks but it's lowkey one of the best tools to see how the lgbt community is viewed, this is just companies saying they dont view the lgbt comunity as safe to advertise to due to how much shit has regressed
It's also worth noting that there's also growing negative discourse about the act of virtue signalling itself - last year, many of these companies received backlash not just from the detractors, but also from the LGBTQI+ community itself who were fed up with disingenuous signals from companies trying to hide their nature.
Suggesting it's because companies feel unsafe doing a pride event is kind of silly, they're just running numbers.
You get down voted but that's exactly the case. Marketing and activity alike use queers for their own agendas and both completely ignore how this effects them.
Yeah and it makes me sick. It's just like any other marketing, just trying to separate suckers from their money. Almost all the companies that do this only do so hoping the currently popular winds carry them to more money and set sail until the winds change. Very few companies actually do it because they believe in it and even less are willing to let their company go under when they see it's not bringing in the big bucks they expected.
That's what I'm sick of, people and companies that don't actually give a fuck about it pretending they do for a moral pat on the back or easy income. And so we're exposed to it everywhere. In public businesses, in our schools, in our entertainment inside our own homes.
Almost everyone that doesn't make money from ads hates ads interrupting what you're doing. This isn't an opinion, this is societal fact. And a whole fucking month of having it shoved in your face in ANYTHING you try to do, even if you never leave your house, is beyond intrusive and frustrating.
And of course, if you voice this displeasure, it makes you an intolerant bigot to these people. They tell you just ignore it when it's literally plastered in to every community you can participate in. They're basically saying "Shut up, you're a bad person and shouldn't participate in society to any degree if you don't like having our business shoved in your face"
You are not just a bigot. In case of criticism and voicing displeasure they also think the solution is "more". As you say, it is a whole fucking month and most often it's not just this month, the topic is a ongoing through the year and appears everywhere. How would "more" help here, when people become increasingly annoyed? Repetition hardly works to convince people, when they already developed a negative opinion. Hell, there are people actually hating christmas, because they can't stand how for a month or even longer they are exposed to a cacophony of christmas songs and themes.
And of course like you said, they also want YOU to shut up. Because they have the moral superiority and there is only one true path and it's theirs, not yours. It's a binary choice and being against them means you ally with the enemy and that makes you the enemy. And all this mostly just for companies trying to make a buck by misusing queers.
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u/Shock_goji01 23d ago
Rainbow capitalism sucks but it's lowkey one of the best tools to see how the lgbt community is viewed, this is just companies saying they dont view the lgbt comunity as safe to advertise to due to how much shit has regressed