It's boring to answer the same questions repeatedly while people pretend (in my opinion) to have no idea that "Hetero Fest" is an attempt to mock "Gay Pride" -- which seems plain-as-day obvious. It happens all the time lately. Something is obvious and people "play pretend" that up is down and left is right. You can't "know for sure" that Musk deliberately did a Nazi salute. You can't "know for sure" that people flying a St George's cross in their living room window are likely xenophobic. You can't "know for sure" that a bar running Super Awesome Straight People Day isn't mocking Gay Pride. Fine - you can't know for sure, but I (individually) can be 99.999% sure, believe so, and say so. And I can say that I find other people pretending that the sky is green to suit their political stance is boring as fk. Am I not allowed to be bored by what I'm bored by either? Is there a list somewhere of things that I'm allowed to find boring?

Im bored now.

Will leave you to it.:wavey:

Tbf, there are a fair few things in today's world that are quite Woke imo, admittedly some of it does also get exaggerated or even out and out fabricated by the anti-woke side, but there are definitely examples of extreme Woke things imo.

But I do agree with you ultimately that this guy is gritting because he knows that he can make a lot of money from anti-woke/anti-LGBT groups.

Speaking for myself, I don't dislike you.

We may not always agree 100% on topics, but I respect what you bring to the Forum.

Admittedly I can't speak on anyone else's behalf.:laugh:

Anyone know why it’s a month rather than a day like all the other special days or celebrations ?

…a month is fairly much more the regular thing …like Women’s History Month, Black History Month, LGTBQ Pride Month….and I believe there is a Native American Month as well but obviously that’s a specific country thing ….

In the U.S it’s literally Military Appreciation Month THIS MONTH. Which you would know about if you actually cared about appreciating the Military, but you don’t and you’re just using it as a way to disparage Pride Month.

You can set up any kind of “month” you want. If you would like to campaign for a Veterans Month in the UK nobody is stopping you, as proven with the above news.

As for this, he can do as he pleases. The fact it’s to run at the same time as Pride Month is proof enough he’s doing it in for reactionary and antagonistic reasons which is enough of a reason to call it pathetic. But meh, hope they all have fun.

I just wish they’d stop shoving their lifestyle down our throats… ;)

‘Hetero Awesome Fest' planned for Idaho capitol during LGBTQ Pride Month
 

It was a simple question .. why jump to unfair assumption ?

I used to idolise George Michael and went to see Will Young at the M.E.N Arena years ago



Somebody gave about 3 examples of monthly celebrations whereas the norm for the thought of celebrations is a day


What makes the monthlies so special ?

Is longer actually better or are they simply diluting the cause ?

They say less is more

Honestly, the amount of times I've seen someone say "Why is there a Pride Month but only a Veterans DAY" as a way to somehow make out like LGBT people are somehow being given special treatment is beyond a joke, it's such a cliche from those who are trying to make a certain point while at the same time uncovering how little they actually care about the Veterans they make out they care so much about (yet they actually don't give a **** otherwise they'd know there was a Military Appreciation Month).

Nice editing of my post

I didn’t have anything to say to anything else you wrote. I don’t care you like George Micheal.

There's Black History Month. Also International Women's Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day. Because God knows, in this strange, twisted competition about who's been the most oppressed in history, Jews and women hardly figure, right?

Women's history month was in March. Womp womp.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month

...and no one's heard of it. Where was the series of educational programmes from Channel 4 and the BBC? Nowhere.

The BBC literally covered it with various different documentaries across different formats lol. They even set up a whole hub of teaching resources for students?

Sounds like you didn't care enough at the time to seek out content that might be of interest. Sorry for that, hopefully the content is still available for you to watch.

Trying to avoid making this too long because I don't have the time, so I'll try to keep it simple...

People have to advocate for themselves at the end of the day and shouldn't be so lazy to expect others to do so. End of. So I think for that part of it, I don't think there's an unfairness and injustice in that... However...

When it gets into coin counting how many festivals/tv shows/etc exist are supposedly "representing" one group versus another group, then it becomes a farce. It's too easy lose the plot on whatever the original point might've been because of the whole "group participation" dynamic. I'm not interested in group representation of any sort. Adding to this, I don't particularly care what the media thinks (and equally, I think very little of the media). I just want to be left the **** alone.

Being really honest, I'm skeptical of any "organizers" of these kinds of things, especially more-so now that the gravy train for that is becoming more obvious. Since when does support "as a group" or "community" in 2025 not come to have some kind of social or financial caveat. And when you donate your own time, it's very easy to fall into pyramid schemes. Like taking that free self-help book from an organization who "cares for others" only to find out they want to motivate you to buy more books and get involved in their "work". Again, keeping it short, I've been involved in the animal rescue aspect of things locally that that problem is prevalent also... there's a lot of money to be made in just getting people donating their free time. Oh and you have to agree with everything on principle anytime you attend these events/meetings... I think in many cases, it's a good way to organize enough fools into the same vicinity to headhunt. That's why I don't think much of "organized protests" these days, either... but yeah, maybe it's innocent... but I value my time enough I wouldn't attend something like this that doesn't actually move the needle any direction that benefits anyone (but organizers) and does appear to be a potential for profit for all those involved and connected to this. So yeah, call me skeptical...

Native Americans!:yuk:




















Obviously I'm just messing around, I don't hold any ill will towards Native Americans, if anything they're victims of immigrants taking their land, which ironically a lot of Far Right Americans never mention... Funny that.:think:

i also believe it's all about power and money @Maru as it always is. How many businesses jump on the band wagon of the most popular event of the time. It's about money. It's no different to the christmas season, the easter weekend, valentines day etc etc etc. People just by there very nature, do not go out and celebrate anything for a month out of choice

Why are you so angry , so ready to fight !?!

Look I am a confessed ‘people watcher’


We were shopping in Tesco the other day and saw two young women ( obviously a couple) walking around holding hands and occasionally whispering in each other’s ears .

We walked past each other a few times up and down the isles and they were a few places in front of us at the queue .. now the one thing that was clearly noticeable was one of them was kinda ‘edgy’ and definitely more confident than the other and was actively seeking eye contact with anyone they walked past or who walked past them ..

I got the definite feeling that she was ready to ‘ go at it’ or to shout “what are you looking at ? “

Why not just be yourself why go looking for something that probably isn’t there ..

https://i.imgflip.com/1q2uoc.gif

Pride has just become a commercial venture, now that there's virtually no battles left to fight (in the west).

If they had it all in one weekend, that's only one weekend they'd make money. Spread it out, and they can make money on multiple weekends!

Some even go "on tour", and attend multiple Pride events! A fool and their money, and all that.

Do you have some sort if l8nk or reference to this cause I think that would be women's day in the UK, as i can't find anything about women's MONTH being celebrated in the UK, it just seems to be a few states in America that celebrate it.

Why are you telling a story about two random lesbians in response to my post.

I agree but I do think there's an element of both to consider: Why is the organiser doing it - yes, 99.9% it's purely and simply to make money, they most likely have no real stance or ideology behind it beyond that. But then point 2 is: Why do they believe it will make money? Why WILL it make money? Who will it attract and how do they know it'll attract people? And that's where it's obviously ideologically driven, obviously pointed/snarky and obviously "backlash-generated". Monetising tribalism, essentially.

A few years back I think it would have been less harmful and could have been done almost satirically; an event full of "hetero stereotypes" that could actually be quite a spectacle, in a tongue-in-cheek way. These days it's all far too politically fuelled and the vibe isn't irreverent banter at all, it's bitterness and anger, and will generate more bitterness and anger. And a boatload of denial. Apparently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/articles/z7rr6v4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/cgl0n85wz83o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q1wk0x1zwo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0kwvyfs

https://www.bbcselect.com/world/ (U.S and Canada only)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kwvyfs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/tags/womens-history

A story gawping at a couple going about their day in public so intently that he can describe and analyse their every move. It would be disturbing/concerning but on this forum it barely raises an eyebrow :joker:.