[arista]

[“Heterosexual Awesomeness Month” last year]


Yes Ben,
clever thing to do...........

[bots]

ultimately, it doesn't matter a toss if someone gets triggered by someone flying a flag when it's a perfectly legal activity.

[Zizu]

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

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Zizu

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 ….

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…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 ….

Native Americans!




















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.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Zizu

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

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?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Livia

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

[Livia]

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

[BBXX]

Originally Posted by Livia

...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.

[Beso]

Originally Posted by BBXX

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.

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.

[BBXX]

Originally Posted by Beso

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.

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

[user104658]

Originally Posted by BBXX

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

Just to pre-empt the response you're going to get here: they'll want non-BBC links it'll be disregarded immediately purely because it's BBC.
#TiBB-SD-life

[Beso]

Originally Posted by BBXX

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

I don't want school curriculum, or websites of the bbc, or museam piss.....I want carnivals, parades, police doing Moulin rouge or ymca, etc....You got any links for that?

[Maru]

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...

[bots]

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

[user104658]

Originally Posted by bots

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

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.

[BBXX]

Not sure why my post was deleted - the point was if you are sad about the lack of attention a cause you care about is getting but you're doing nothing to CREATE that attention, you have no leg to stand on.

Pride is so big because LGBT people made it so big. Do I hate the corporate side of it? Yes, to a degree absolutely, but the reason it's gotten corporate support it because of a lot of LGBT people creating a movement that got so big commercial entities saw it as potentially commercially beneficial.

If you want funding, if you want flags, if you want attention, if you want column inches, if you want parades, if you want content, literally nothing is stopping you creating it.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by BBXX

Not sure why my post was deleted - the point was if you are sad about the lack of attention a cause you care about is getting but you're doing nothing to CREATE that attention, you have no leg to stand on.

Pride is so big because LGBT people made it so big. Do I hate the corporate side of it? Yes, to a degree absolutely, but the reason it's gotten corporate support it because of a lot of LGBT people creating a movement that got so big commercial entities saw it as potentially commercially beneficial.

If you want funding, if you want flags, if you want attention, if you want column inches, if you want parades, if you want content, literally nothing is stopping you creating it.

This is mostly correct I would add that there are some economic quirks involved though. Basically the reason it's so big - bleak as it is - is because it generates money. The LGBTQ+ community are (statistically) a huge consumer group; they're spenders, for obvious reasons, as the vast majority (not all, but the majority) fall into the categories of "young free and single" or (the real money pot) ... dual-income adult households with no children (i.e. LARGE disposable income potential).

Generally if you want to know why anything becomes big, follow the money. I say that without judgement it just is what it is... if there's profit to be made from something becoming big and publicised, then it will become big and publicised. Brands jumping on Pride do so because the believe it'll be profitable advertising, if they didn't think it would generate profit, they wouldn't.

[Beso]

Originally Posted by BBXX

Not sure why my post was deleted - the point was if you are sad about the lack of attention a cause you care about is getting but you're doing nothing to CREATE that attention, you have no leg to stand on.

Pride is so big because LGBT people made it so big. Do I hate the corporate side of it? Yes, to a degree absolutely, but the reason it's gotten corporate support it because of a lot of LGBT people creating a movement that got so big commercial entities saw it as potentially commercially beneficial.

If you want funding, if you want flags, if you want attention, if you want column inches, if you want parades, if you want content, literally nothing is stopping you creating it.

People simply don't want harassed by other groups for celebrating women's month

[Beso]

Originally Posted by BBXX

Not sure why my post was deleted - the point was if you are sad about the lack of attention a cause you care about is getting but you're doing nothing to CREATE that attention, you have no leg to stand on.

Pride is so big because LGBT people made it so big. Do I hate the corporate side of it? Yes, to a degree absolutely, but the reason it's gotten corporate support it because of a lot of LGBT people creating a movement that got so big commercial entities saw it as potentially commercially beneficial.

If you want funding, if you want flags, if you want attention, if you want column inches, if you want parades, if you want content, literally nothing is stopping you creating it.

I know that..but this bloke is getting a hell if a lot of stick for doing just that by the LGBTQ community, both on here and outside of here.


A paragraph from the initial story.

He said in a video shared last week on the bar’s Instagram account that he had reached out to a number of corporations who have donated to LGBTQ Pride celebrations over the years to ask if they would support the event, and they told him they typically only donate to registered nonprofits. As a result, he said, he created the nonprofit Heterosexual Awesomeness Inc., which will host the festival, though he hasn’t heard back from any major donors yet.




Perhaps the uproar people have created is stopping his funding...

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Beso

I know that..but this bloke is getting a hell if a lot of stick for doing just that by the LGBTQ community, both on here and outside of here.


A paragraph from the initial story.

He said in a video shared last week on the bar’s Instagram account that he had reached out to a number of corporations who have donated to LGBTQ Pride celebrations over the years to ask if they would support the event, and they told him they typically only donate to registered nonprofits. As a result, he said, he created the nonprofit Heterosexual Awesomeness Inc., which will host the festival, though he hasn’t heard back from any major donors yet.




Perhaps the uproar people have created is stopping his funding...

It’s probably more because he’s doing it as a negative reaction to something else rather than a celebration.

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

It’s probably more because he’s doing it as a negative reaction to something else rather than a celebration.

Yes. A negative reaction to public lewdness. Has brought on the desire for a more wholesome way of celebrating and promoting things.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Beso

Yes. A negative reaction to public lewdness.

Oh I thought we couldn't make ANY assumptions about his reasons for doing it without talking to him? Thank you, though, for FINALLY admitting that you know fine well why the event has been created - not that it wasn't obvious that everyone already knew what the event is and why it's been made - but the constant pretending that it "wasn't a backlash" and was just a completely normal, unrelated event was getting quite tiring.

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Beso

Yes. A negative reaction to public lewdness. Has brought on the desire for a more wholesome way of celebrating and promoting things.

Yeah ok, if you say so.

If he wanted an actual celebration he could pick any time of year. He’s chosen specifically to run it when he has as a negative reaction. That’s not a celebration.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Beso

Yes. A negative reaction to public lewdness. Has brought on the desire for a more wholesome way of celebrating and promoting things.

Public lewdness is a possibility at the Hetro Awareness event.