If you losers actually left the house and went to pride irl you know what you would see? The entire cast of sesame street and all the Muppets as well. A wizard I dated very briefly and am now locked in an interminable beef with. Balloons which is a bit scary actually. My dad who got confused and wandered into the area by mistake. Maybe tits. Probably you will be able to buy a hot pretzel
humans don’t have enough ornamentation. where’s the plumage, the antlers
i could go for a good vibrant throat sac i could display as i sing in the mating season
Humans have some of the most extreme hair variation over their bodies in the animal kingdom, with hair on some parts of our body a few millimetres long and fine enough to be almost invisible, and hair in other parts a good metre long if not artificially trimmed. Part of the inside of our mouths are turned out to make our lips bright red, we have comically oversized breasts and lack penis bones to make erections more indicative of impressive circulation, and have some of the most complex behavioural adaptations to self-ornamentation for courtship seen in anything that doesn’t spend half its life collecting blue bottle caps. How much ornamentation do you want?
I’d like antlers, as previously stated
there is no audience to perform for, there is no approval, no admiration to attain. there is no role worth playing, there is no one to convince. let it go
Brands pretending to be allies during pride month always sucks, but on the other hand it’s hilarious to see homophobes believing those acts are genuine and trying to “boycott” an increasingly larger number of products
I’m old enough to remember when saying anything in support of LGBT people was unpopular enough for corporations not to touch it with a ten-foot pole, and while I don’t believe for a moment that these companies give a shit about making things better for LGBT people, the mere fact that it’s now more profitable to support LGBT rights than not brings me satisfaction
#for real #it… does not suck to me #I mean it doesn’t make me feel more positive about SPECIFIC brands #or the structures of capitalism in general #but it’s a fucking indication of progress
#because this was unimaginable when I came out #when I moved in with my wife #hell even when I got married (before it was legal nationwide) #yes it’s a rainbow veneer over the same old shit #but the fact that they feel the need to acknowledge us at all is indicative of so much social change that I just… #I can’t even express it (via @taibhsearachd)
Seriously, like. We started dating in 2005. The only brands that would vaguely acknowledge pride were basically the ones whose main customer base were queer people.
We got legally married in New York state in 2013, 2 years before it became a federal nationwide right. At that point, the only brands that would acknowledge Pride were the already-counterculture-rebellious-liberal sorts of brands that wouldn’t be badly hurt by making the extreme choice to actually recognize and celebrate their queer customers.
AND sometimes throughout my adulthood, a brand would be really queer-friendly one year, but the next year they’d be conspicuously silent, because they’d gotten more pushback than they’d expected, and therefore they were going to withdraw their explicit support from pride events and shit bc they didn’t want to alienate their non-queer customer base.
The fact that basically every brand (in america, at least) that doesn’t rely almost entirely on conservatives feels like it’s more beneficial than not to at least ACKNOWLEDGE Pride, even if they’re not doing a logo change or whatever, is fucking HUGE. And no, it’s not enough, and yes it is just self-serving capitalism 99.9% of the time, but man, it is AMAZING to live in a world where literal corporations would rather be at least purportedly supportive to queer ppl than to alienate them entirely.
So yeah, I’m gonna revel in the fuckin rainbows and shit that I find everywhere, bc this isn’t anything I ever thought would actually be even POSSIBLE in my lifetime, if I’m being completely honest.
MY GIRLFRIEND JUST STEPPED ON A PRESSURE PLATE AND GOT KILLED BY A SPIKE DOOR LOOOOL
in. skyrim
