Pride Yesterday In London

[smurfchops]

Did any of you go, what did you think?

[sp1814]

Spungle

Were there children at Pride?!

I didn't see them. Have you got a link?

Also, why would this be a wokefest? Am trying to get my head around the word "woke". The definition seems a bit...fuzzy.

And waste of time?

Surely not?

[Spungle]

I have no idea if there were kids there yesterday, I kept well away. However, it's a Saturday in the capital. I certainly wouldn't want my young family exposed to this stuff when they were enjoying a day out. I took children to Manchester Science Museum one year not knowing 'Pride' was on, and having kids ask why there were half naked men in chains dressed as dogs isn't something I should be asked. The reason I believe it's a waste of time is because people have their rights now, as other posters have said. No-one needs to march up and down, half naked, in city centres, in public, during daytime. It's pointless at best. Only my opinion.

[Spungle]

Wokefest: various sections of society (including police and businesses) falling over themselves to 'get in' on whatever the latest fashionable PC agenda is, for no benefit to the wider public.

[sp1814]

Spungle

Ah I see...there may not have been kids there at all but it's *possible* that kids might've been there.

My understanding is that the protest aspect of Pride has been subsumed by the sheer celebration. People getting dressed up, having a drink and partying. Almost like a bit of carnival.

Not sure about the half naked men dressed as dogs. Surely if they were dressed as dogs they'd be covered with fur?

;-)

And people have rights - not really what Pride is all about.

Fun seems to be the core reason now. And it makes shedloads of money for local business - and in these times surely that's a good thing?

[Spungle]

Thanks for clarifying, sp1814. I personally can't see the point of it all, and think it's a waste of time. We were asked in the OP for our opinions and you got them!

[sp1814]

Spungle

I see it differently - I've noticed a HUGE uptick in the number of businesses getting in on the Pride thing. It seems to me they want to appeal directly to younger people - they want to say "We're all about the future, not the past...we're down with you".

My gym really went for it, which I found quite shocking. But I guess they know what they're doing. Anything to grab the attention of Gen Z and Gen X.

[Atheist]

spungle 19:42.
"No-one needs to march up and down, half naked, in city centres, in public, during daytime."
In nice weather, many women do exactly that! Do you think they should be Burka'd?

[sp1814]

Ohh...pow Athiest!

[Deskdiary]

Atheist - your second point in yours has of 7.58pm.

Yes please.

Given how many hideously, grotesquely, fat tat covered swamp donkeys they’re about nowadays, I’d love them to cover their acres of disgusting flab up.

[sp1814]

“…and on that bombshell”

[Atheist]

DD: And the blubbery male gammons (of all ages, political leanings, creeds and colours)? Should they be forced to "cover their acres of disgusting flab up"?
I just look elsewhere; I wouldn't want to legislate the way they do in some middle-eastern countries.

[Spungle]

"No-one needs to march up and down, half naked, in city centres, in public, during daytime."
Atheist: In nice weather, many women do exactly that!

I'm not saying they don't. Do you think they need to?

[Atheist]

Spungle; I don't think that women need to walk around half naked, but some seem to enjoy it in hot weather, as do some men. All other animals go unclothed (perhaps except for hermit crabs, but they sound like a miserable bunch of crabby reclusives). I suppose that God and spirits also don't wear clothes.

[Chairman2001]

It's heterophobia, but unlike homophobia, that's OK. Hypocrisy personified.

[retrocop]

Back in1945 the whole of the West End streets were closed by people of all persuasions celebrating the end of a world war where suffering was rife and gays and straight people either participated in the Celebration of the victory they bought about or suffered as a result of it. The homosexual fraternity had to keep under cover because they broke the law although many, I suspect, were instrumental in preventing us speaking German today. This was a true celebration and no one complained about street closures and disruption in the cities.
Move forward, if you will ,and we still close certain streets and environs to celebrate the end of hostilities and the sacrifice of men and women who may well of been gay every armistice day. LGBQ are not , in this day and age, discriminated from marching in the Whitehall parades and are rightly accepted for there contribution to that celebration. I, however, believe that a Pride March is not inclusive for the majority and is a selfish exhibition and disruption and now serves no reason to celebrate. They won their rights to be gay over 50 years ago.

[david small]

I’m not proud of the London exhibition. I am what I am said popeye.

[retrocop]

//I am what I am said popeye.//

I think he may of said,' Oh my Goshk Olive .I is what I is'. :-)

[sp1814]

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