Don't tempt them. It's hard enough to cross the street as it is.
What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely.
Submitted 2 months ago by Steve@startrek.website to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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artifex@piefed.social 2 months ago
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
lol … conservatives would be the first to happily just get rid of cross walks altogether … both to not acknowledge LGBTQ+ and also to give more freedom to vehicles and get rid of “pedestrians”
SGforce@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
A good wholesome road needs to be safe for our traditional family SUVs and free of these dangerous ((pedestrians)).
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
“It’s for the children! No more crosswalks! Just frogger it, kids!” -Ron DeSantis
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 months ago
Kids these days still play Frogger, right?
dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I like this idea. It’s like depressed version of pride flag, indicating LGBTQ people are repressed and in pain
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Like a dead coral reef.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Perfect for Florida!
Steve@startrek.website 2 months ago
Yes, a distress flag
aramova@infosec.pub 2 months ago
To be honest those twats would already be on board with that.
“Crosswalks? The fuck, you ain’t driving your truck across the street to get there? It too damn far!”
– Florida Man
warm@kbin.earth 2 months ago
Just adopt red and white stripes. See what they do then
Emerald@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cat in the hat style
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Nobody tell them about the cishet ally flag which is almost exactly this… ;)
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Having just checked that flag, damn, we don’t get any fun colors?!?
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 2 months ago
The ally flag gets fun colors! It’s the black and white background with a rainbow ∧ shape. I wear this as a pin sometimes. Also my favorite restaurant has one hanging proudly inside.
Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As a queer circus performer, I hate that flag since half my performance wear is black and white circus stripes
janNatan@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
So, your question got me wondering. I went on a whole search down the rabbit hole, and I eventually came upon a YouTube video that summarizes it briefly and elegantly:
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yeah tbh. And it aligns better with the concept of sexuality/gender being more of a spectrum than rigidly designated buckets.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Isn’t the rainbow meant to represent the spectrum. Like how rainbows show the visible spectrum of light?
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It… is kind of a giant mess.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBTQ) is a good summary but the modern rainbow color scheme is a somewhat recent iteration.
But much as “LGBT” has become “LGBTQ” and “LGBTQIA” and “LGBTQIA+” and so forth, so too have the flag added and removed stripes. And… a lot of that is intentional animosity since a shocking number of LGBTQIA+ folk are actually REALLY bigoted (the old “jokes” about how bisexual people need to “choose a side” and so forth) and it becomes a whole thing.
s@piefed.world 2 months ago
It’s giving “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”
twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 months ago
I’m saving those for the big day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_stripes
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Don’t give Florida ideas
SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
What in the white skittles?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I just wish I could get people to care half as much about health care and wages as they do about their meaningless pieces of nylon fabric.
twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 months ago
Guess I’ll take the $20 I’d spend on a flag and buy some votes instead
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Florida always at the ready for ideas that can harm children.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just adopt the Florida state flag?
Steve@startrek.website 2 months ago
That feels about as appropriate as the Nazi flag
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I tell people that the back the blue flag is for pedophiles. It’s fun to fuck with their nonsense.
BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social 2 months ago
Why is Red on the left and Blue on the right? Don't tell the MAGA crowd or they will try to pass another law...
Samuelwankenobi@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Don’t tell them that how the colours are for the left and right political parties in other countries
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Cute but this wouldn’t work for this obvious reason – conservatives would be like, “sure buddy. If you say so.”
OTOH, we made the rainbow work so… I guess?
Steve@startrek.website 2 months ago
Dude have you seen the rainbow? ITS LITERALLY JUST VISIBLE LIGHT and its the greatest threat to the conservative world.
You way underestimate how much they care.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And they are literally naturally occurring. Like… I wonder how mad conservatives get when it rains on a sunny day, and a rainbow comes popping up in the sky reminding them of their closeted homosexuality.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 months ago
RedStrider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
beatles pride flag
TomMasz@piefed.social 2 months ago
Part of me is all for this, but part of me realizes this would only make things worse for pedestrians and bicyclists.
kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2 months ago
the united colors of benetton would approve of those flags
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
That weird shaped guy that Florida keeps electing would just move the goalposts more and do whatever he can to torment anyone who is lgbt
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Shape the flag like him.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Then he might attempt to get healthy in order to change his shape and I’d rather he look like an egg so his heart will bail on him more quickly
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Confirmed, walking around town instead of driving is gay.
whaleross@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t black and white stripes they ally denominator already?
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Techhnically that’s black and white stripes with a rainbow.
Black and white stripes can be used as such too, though.
ceenote@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So you’re the one who stole my bath towel.
Steve@startrek.website 2 months ago
Yes I collect gay bath towels
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How can you tell the sexuality of a towel?
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Well, there are worse hobbies…
ceenote@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So you’re saying my bi bath towels were taken by someone else?
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Quiet you, I’m trying to buy in while they’re still under the radar.