Be as well calling them sex fetish parades

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I agree with that and frankly I'm genuinely baffled that the LGBTQ community itself doesn't have more of an issue with the conflation of gender & sexuality with "kink culture".

I would argue 'til the day I die that homosexuality/bisexuality are absolutely not kinks in any way shape or form. Any reasonable person knows this. Some people would like to paint these things as such and it becomes - surely - much harder to defend the truth when pride marches are being increasingly taken over by furries, age-play, autogynephilia and people in bondage gear. I do personally know multiple gay couples who are lowkey furious about it. I'd have thought there'd be more - but maybe it's just difficult to be outspoken without backlash.

Transgenderism is of course where it all kicks off because trans in itself is not a kink BUT some niche transgenderism is autogynephilic and rooted in kink, and where that is the case, allowing those individuals who identify as trans (but are quite clearly conceptually nothing like the average transperson) into women and children's spaces is where the risk lies.

Basically 99% of the problem could be solved by admitting that there is a clear and distinct difference, and that kink-based transgenderism is NOT in the same category as transgenderism rooted in dysphoria. It is a completely different thing.

And yet all of it is lumped under just one umbrella. Dozens if not hundreds of different social psychologies "grouped" as being thematically similar when they are plainly and simply not.

I get why it happened - a louder voice, and safety in numbers - but honestly I reckon the snake is absolutely starting to eat it's own tail.

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Well that's the problem which I've said myself ..... everything is shoved under the same umbrella which is very problematic.

I wish more would stand up against it aswell.

Yep, but it always seems to be the extreme people with the loudest voices sadly they seem to shut everyone else down.

What if you see a bloated old bear all beardy and hairy dancing underneath it clad only in a rubber dildo strap on.? Like you get on saturday afternoons at pride?

They are the people stealing your flag glenn.

This news has shattered my reality.:bawling:

Parents tbh shouldn't let their children mix with the strangers in those outfits, just as a precaution.

I'm sure that most of them wearing those outfits are just having a laugh, but parents do have a responsibility to make sure that their children aren't exposed to too much adult material, I'd say the same if children were being exposed to women in kinky outfits too.

If I was a parent taking my child to a Pride Parade, they would only be allowed to talk to the strangers that were dressed in a non-sexual way.

I don't believe that's their main intent.

The Media just love to run negative stories on groups.

I'm not sure if there's any appropriate parades out there ,they all seem full of adult rated stuff. Every time there's the normal people...it always gets invaded by the more outrageous folk .

Kink should absolutely not be in daytime/"family friendly" Pride events. I can't see any reasonable person disagreeing with that.

No.

Anyone that looks a pride flag and immediately thinks of sex is a weirdo. You all know this and if you don’t think that then it’s you that has the problem. If your mind goes straight to sex when you look at a flag then you’re a pervert.

I don't know tbh Glenn.

The American flag always symbolizes sex to me.:hehe:

Being serious, I think that the Media hasn't helped in all forms (not just Journalistic Media tbf) in the sense that every time there's two gay men on the same set, the Media will always try to find a way of turning it sexual.

I think that the same thing has happened with the Pride and Trans flags too, and in fairness to a lot of the public, constantly being told to (subconsciously of course) think of sex when talking about gay men, it's going to start catching on.

Tbh the Media likes to bogeyman the public when the public in general think of a group in a negative way, and it's the Media a lot of the time that's subtlety spreading the vitriol.

And they would love how divided this Forum is on Politics.

There’s a lot of that on here. People talking about gay people and their minds immediately go to sex. It’s perverse.

Such a strange viewpoint. No wonder the bigots are so triggered by everything. They’re sick

I agree with you that sometimes on here harmless things to do with LGBT themes can get harshly scrutinized.

I do think that partially though, TV Shows and News Stations do sometimes have a bad habit of emphasizing sexuality over the person as an individual, and as weird as it is to say to some people, but a fair amount of people do get their ideas off of places such as TV and Social Media.

Graphic:
At the family friendly official Portland Pride Parade in downtown
@PortlandGov
on July 21, a man marches in the middle of the street exposing his genitals
and the c—k ring he’s wearing right in front of very small children. The parade is organized by
@PDXPrideNW
.


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This ‘person’ gets my goat ..

Sky showed a clip of Chelsea women FC earlier with this huge beast rampaging through some poor defenceless defence ..

‘She’ looked a good 6” taller , broad shoulders and more ‘tellingly’ …. ‘she’ ran just like a bloke !!

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Parents should gave their kids taken away from them for exposing them to stuff like that.

Epic. Chelsea fans, as adoring and historically and will 100% accept this new player.

I am sure Glenn will be along shortly to explain this one away, what gets me is no one from the organisers to the participants to the police appear to have anything to say to this guy, apart from the obvious I am sure he is breaking decency laws

what sick parents would take small children to so and watch this

baffling

Portland. Which has a naked cycle race annually? That Portland? The same Portland that has many many naturist hotels etc.

Also not sure what this has to do with transgender people?