Sao Paolo's Gonna Have... a Straight 'Pride' Parade? O_o

[outlawauron]

sapphi_snake said:

outlawauron said:

sapphi_snake said:

badgenome said:

sapphi_snake said:

In a recent report, the gay rights group Grupo Gay da Bahia said 260 gays were murdered last year in Brazil, up 113 percent from five years earlier

 

I bet a lot more heterosexuals than that were murdered in Brazil last year. We deserve a pride parade!

That particular comment seemed quite pointless and out of place (unless that's the number of people victims of gay bashing, case in which it's totally valid). Heterosexuals don't need any pride parades though.

Neither do homosexuals...

I think it's more of a ironic reaction than anything else. You can't have one without expecting the other side to do the same at some point.

Actually they do. I mean, it's not as if there are any yearly special occasions dedicated to homosexuality, as opposed to the countless ones centered around heterosexuals. Not to mention that homosexuals are an oppressed group, persectured for millennia because of their sexual orientation. The logic behind the whole 'pride' movement is rising up against the persecution, and not being afraid/ashamed of being homosexual.

By comparison, heterosexuals are actually the oppressors. There's simply no logic that could support a 'straight pride' day, other than bashing gays (which is quite clear that it's the intent of those who wanna organzie this, based off of the article). 'Straight pride' day makes as much sense as 'white history month'. Every freaking day is 'straight pride' day!

Really now? Are you really considering things like mothers day or Father's Day to be any sort of equivalent of a 'straight pride' holiday. I'm getting tired of the logic that gay people are this horribly supressed group that need this special treatment reserved for them as the absence of it is somehow prejudice. If I were gay, I would be embrassed about this line of thinking that gay people have to be treated differently whenever equality is deserved.