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 1 month ago by Steve@startrek.website to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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artifex@piefed.social 1 month ago
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month ago
A good wholesome road needs to be safe for our traditional family SUVs and free of these dangerous ((pedestrians)).
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
“It’s for the children! No more crosswalks! Just frogger it, kids!” -Ron DeSantis
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 month ago
Kids these days still play Frogger, right?
dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month 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 1 month ago
Like a dead coral reef.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Perfect for Florida!
Steve@startrek.website 1 month ago
Yes, a distress flag
aramova@infosec.pub 1 month 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 1 month ago
Just adopt red and white stripes. See what they do then
Emerald@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Cat in the hat style
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Nobody tell them about the cishet ally flag which is almost exactly this… ;)
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Having just checked that flag, damn, we don’t get any fun colors?!?
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 month 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 1 month ago
As a queer circus performer, I hate that flag since half my performance wear is black and white circus stripes
janNatan@lemmy.ml 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Isn’t the rainbow meant to represent the spectrum. Like how rainbows show the visible spectrum of light?
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 month 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 1 month ago
It’s giving “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”
twice_hatch@midwest.social 1 month ago
I’m saving those for the big day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_stripes
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Don’t give Florida ideas
SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
What in the white skittles?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Guess I’ll take the $20 I’d spend on a flag and buy some votes instead
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Florida always at the ready for ideas that can harm children.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just adopt the Florida state flag?
Steve@startrek.website 1 month ago
That feels about as appropriate as the Nazi flag
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I tell people that the back the blue flag is for pedophiles. It’s fun to fuck with their nonsense.
BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social 1 month 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 1 month ago
Don’t tell them that how the colours are for the left and right political parties in other countries
jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
RedStrider@lemmy.world 1 month ago
beatles pride flag
TomMasz@piefed.social 1 month 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 1 month ago
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 month ago
the united colors of benetton would approve of those flags
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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 1 month ago
Shape the flag like him.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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 1 month ago
Confirmed, walking around town instead of driving is gay.
whaleross@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Isn’t black and white stripes they ally denominator already?
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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 1 month ago
So you’re the one who stole my bath towel.
Steve@startrek.website 1 month ago
Yes I collect gay bath towels
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How can you tell the sexuality of a towel?
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Well, there are worse hobbies…
ceenote@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So you’re saying my bi bath towels were taken by someone else?
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Quiet you, I’m trying to buy in while they’re still under the radar.