I'm not gay and don't know the reason a rainbow was chosen, but it seems to be sending the message that being gay is natural. Also, that it's colorful and vibrant.
You can see that two ways. You can appreciate it for what it is or you can choose to believe that it's been stolen from straight people by marauding gays.
If you believe the latter and can honestly say, "Gay people have stolen our rainbows" and mean it, you deserve to be ridiculed.
Ah, but what if you lived back in the mid 1800's and loved to wear white pointed hoods with little eye holes cut out? Then a few years later the KKK comes and ruins it for you!! 140 years later and you STILL can't pull off the pointy hood!!
Point is, you can't go around wearing a white pointy hood without people assuming you are a KKK member, and having to deal with the repercussions of those assumptions. People are reluctant to have anything to do with a rainbow for fear either someone might wrongly assume they're gay or perpetrate some kind of hate/violence/vandalism upon their person or property. I used a negative example, but it's a good illustration-'I am not a member of that group, and I don't want to be confused as one, for good OR bad'
The OP's argument is not without merit. Part of my first post on the topic was in jest, but I do see what the OP is saying and I do tend to agree.
This actually kind of happened to me.
My sister offered to make a Pikmin hat for me, but refused when I asked for a white one because "it would look too much like a K.K.K. hat".
Such a shame, white pikmin are adorable. :<
Is it normal that the rainbow symbol is used by homosexuals?
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I'm not gay and don't know the reason a rainbow was chosen, but it seems to be sending the message that being gay is natural. Also, that it's colorful and vibrant.
You can see that two ways. You can appreciate it for what it is or you can choose to believe that it's been stolen from straight people by marauding gays.
If you believe the latter and can honestly say, "Gay people have stolen our rainbows" and mean it, you deserve to be ridiculed.
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Ah, but what if you lived back in the mid 1800's and loved to wear white pointed hoods with little eye holes cut out? Then a few years later the KKK comes and ruins it for you!! 140 years later and you STILL can't pull off the pointy hood!!
Point is, you can't go around wearing a white pointy hood without people assuming you are a KKK member, and having to deal with the repercussions of those assumptions. People are reluctant to have anything to do with a rainbow for fear either someone might wrongly assume they're gay or perpetrate some kind of hate/violence/vandalism upon their person or property. I used a negative example, but it's a good illustration-'I am not a member of that group, and I don't want to be confused as one, for good OR bad'
The OP's argument is not without merit. Part of my first post on the topic was in jest, but I do see what the OP is saying and I do tend to agree.
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This actually kind of happened to me.
My sister offered to make a Pikmin hat for me, but refused when I asked for a white one because "it would look too much like a K.K.K. hat".
Such a shame, white pikmin are adorable. :<
Funnily enough, I think we have pretty similar views here. You understood what I was getting at.
It would be easy to argue that people shouldn't wear pointy hoods because of what it has come to mean (something negative).
But it's also a valid argument to ask why people should think being gay should be treated in the same way as being racist.
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Well, nowadays you cant wear hoodies, eat skittles & drink sweet tea either. :-(