Is There Still A Need For This Expensive And Disruptive Exercise, In This Country?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4677058/One-million-people-gather-London-UK-s-biggest-Pride.html

Perhaps in those countries that are not so acceptive to homosexuality, but surely there is now no longer need here?

[TWR]

Ummmm, I admire you. x

[gness]

Very well thanks, TWR.......enjoy your lunch.....if you're lucky you may find the tail end of a march and have some fun......xxx

[vulcan42]

Perhaps the word should be flaunt not flaw, I don't see why any group should flaunt themselves.

[Garaman]

//"How odd, as everything OG has posted explains why they are necessary."

On the contrary they explain clearly why they are unnecessary and illogical. Newspeak ought not be used in the discussion. Some folk may feel offended by having it pointed out where they have erred, but everything I have posted, indicates this unnecessary nature. //


No it doesn't.

[anotheoldgit]

jim360

/// and I still haven't got around to telling my Dad -- because I thought the truth would hurt her. ///

Dad a female?? now life is really getting complicated.

[gness]

Not complicated at all, AOG...if you read it properly.....x

[anotheoldgit]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DER4efgWAAAtv3e.jpg

Re: the photo, I wonder if the holders of such signs would be arrested for inciting religious hatred, if they had been held by members of a far-right group outside a Mosque?

And why hasn't that woman been criticised for 'blacking up'?

[-Talbot-]

And why hasn't that woman been criticised for 'blacking up'?




Think about it

[sp1814]

Flaw?

Really?

[anotheoldgit]

-Talbot-

/// Think about it ///

Come on get off that fence.

Could it be something to do with belonging to a 'protective species'?

[sp1814]

I get what you mean -Talbot-.

Seems obvious.

[Togo]

Marvelous "event. Perhaps we should help it go Global by having a fund raising day, a bit like Save The Children. This would help fund the celebrations to be held in other capital cities.......Jakarta, Riyadh, or Islamabad spring to mind.

[sp1814]

Would it be fair to say that judging by those who object to the Pride events are from an older generation?

I ask that based on the most vehement objectors here on AB.

With that in mind, perhaps we should give the objectors a break. They grew up in an era where you could be jailed, sacked, socially ostracised for being gay.

In the same way that we should be careful not judge those in the past for their attitudes, perhaps those same people should recognise that we now celebrate gay people, which is far more preferable than medically castrating them?

[Islay]

My father is from the older generation Sp and is very proud of his gay stepson. So no they should not get a free pass!!

[vetuste_ennemi]

Personally I would rather be abused by you than patronised, SP.

[scooping]

If I hear another 'celebrity' 'coming out' I'll be sick. Don't care about your sexual preferences. None of my business. Just have a nice day.

[sp1814]

It's not patronising.

It's logical.

Not all elderly people have an issue at all, but I can't help feeling that if you've been brought up one way, it's difficult to change to accommodate the attitudes of the younger generation.

That's what I mean when I say that it's unfair for us younger people to expect people who grew up in the 40s/50s/60s be as liberal as us.

[gness]

I'm probably in the older generation, SP....but I take your point...however.....

Age can never be used as an excuse to express some of the thoughts I've read on here.....to be hurtful and unkind to folk who maybe already struggling and suffering through ignorance and unkindness......x

[Togo]

Perhaps "the older generation" are in a better position and have a more reasoned perspective, having seen the effects on society and being able to compare different times.

[sp1814]

Good call Islay. There are many wonderful older people who place love way above prejudice and hate.