Thursday 29 June 2017

Heterosexual Pride Day and why we Don't Need it.

The straights are testing the LGBT+ community again.

I'm just minding my business, doing a little self promo on Twitter, when I happen to glance at the trending topics in the UK. And I'm confused to find that #HeterosexualPrideDay is trending.
Ya'll couldn't wait another couple of days for this nonsense and had to do it in Pride month? Wow.

A lot of straight people before you yell at me for generalising seem to get a little butthurt when they're told that Heterosexual Pride day isn't needed. The same goes for when you tell white people that a white history month isn't needed, but that's a different post altogether.
They cry, "aren't we allowed to be proud to be straight?", "why do the gays get a whole month and we get nothing?", "you're a big meanie oppressing me for being straight!", etc. And you just look at them, wondering why they're like this.

My first point is that: Pride month isn't really about being proud to be gay. I mean that's part of it, but it's not the main point of celebration.
Pride month is about celebrating how far the LGBT+ community have come and their successes in gaining rights and laws to help make them equal to straight people. It's about the LGBT+ community coming together to celebrate their own existence and how the world is slowly getting better and safer for them. It's about companies pretending to care about the LGBT+ community for a month by using rainbows in their advertisements without really doing anything to actually support the LGBT+ community.
Social media users' content becomes more LGBT+-centric, sharing content and recourses to help and entertain the LGBT+ community.

Considering it's still illegal to be gay in some parts of the world, one month a year of celebration doesn't really hurt anyone.

Straight people don't need a pride day. You know why? Because it's not dangerous anywhere in the world for a person to be straight. There aren't laws stopping straight couples from marrying. Families won't disown you for being straight. Most films/books/tv shows/ songs cater to a straight audience and there aren't tropes about how straight people always die in the media. People aren't murdered for being straight
Straight people are able to do what the LGBT+ community can do for one month every fucking day.

And another thing; when we refer to Heterosexual pride day, I'm pretty sure we're only on about cishets as straight trans people exist but it's hundreds times more dangerous to be a straight trans person than a straight cis person. Ever heard of the trans/gay panic defence? It's a real thing that's used in trials where trans/gay people have been killed because someone "panicked" when they found out the victim was trans/ gay. This is a legal defence in parts of America and was definitely at least being thought about being legal in the UK.

Straight people invade LGBT+ spaces a lot with their little outings to Gay bars like they're going to the local petting zoo. Ya'll need to do a "what about me?" with everything the LGBT+ community has and then complain when a gay person thinks that they're gay. I mean, I wonder where they got that idea from????

Do we even talk about the posters for the London Pride event? Most of them are somehow about straight people when they're advertising as event for the LGBT+ community. They've taken something that isn't about them the horror! and made about them in a backwards way.

In conclusion, Heterosexual pride day isn't needed because there at no accomplishments to celebrate as straight people are given everything and then they decide to take what the LGBT+ community have as well.

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