Straight Pride
My mother confronted me about this today, she wants to celebrate straight pride and in the same breath she told me that LGBT+ people have always had rights and have never been oppressed, we aren’t killed, we aren’t imprisoned or assaulted or bullied. It’s all just “coincidence”. We just cry wolf and are extremely entitled. (She said to the woman who has been sexually assaulted for being a lesbian)
This same woman (my mother) went on the talk about how there shouldn’t be all black colleges if there shouldn’t be all white colleges. No gay pride if there can’t be straight pride. Because oppressed people trying to show who they are and be who they are safely without any possible oppressors spot lighted beside them or on their own separate occasion is “bullying”… oppressed people showing pride and trying to be in a safe open accepting place is somehow “segregation” in her eyes.
So no, I don’t believe in straight pride. I don’t believe in white pride. I don’t believe in any of that. No matter how you try to twist it, you’re trying to downplay someone else’s struggle for rights, you’re trying to mock them, you’re trying to spite them. You’re trying to overshadow them as you have always tried to. The non marginalized and non oppressed group trying to overshadow those who have been oppressed for years. You can be proud of who you are, but that doesn’t mean you have to try and trump someone else’s pride or do your best to spite them while claiming you’re just trying to find “true equality”. Straight cis people have always had their rights (this is aside from say, the struggles of disabled people, interracial couples, women, etc), always have been able to be married and such, while a lot of LGBT+ people are still fighting for those rights. People get angry still even if we’re shown on TV for two seconds.
Straight people, and white people while we’re at it, don’t need “pride”. They are allowed to be seen and proud in public everyday. For years and years and years. No one has ever criminalized straight cis people/couples (yet again aside from interracial and disabled couples). And the white cishet people allowed to be proud and open vastly outnumber those who aren’t white cishet and are able to be as proud and open without any slight fear of being attacked or discriminated against.
Straight pride shouldn’t even be a thing that’s being pondered at this point.
