I still get the classic flag 🏳️🌈
The whole point was that the colors aren’t skin color… They’re your goddamn soul. Being gay is all about being skittles on the inside, and those who attempt to divide us keep scribbling dumb ass skin colors on a perfectly balanced design.
I’m brown, I’m bisexual, I don’t feel any “more represented” by this flag. All I feel is someone didn’t go to design school.
It’s meant to acknowledge intersectionality. The ways that minority identities can overlap, creating more complex lived experiences for some individuals.
Edit: I want to say, yes, I understand why those colors break right through the middle of the rainbow flag, but why? Does it really express what you hope for it to express?
And what abort white people? Where are their colors? I feel like this flag divides more than it brings anyone together. Seems like it only succeeded in bringing together a lot of SJW “political-correctness-gone-mad” types but not so much the average gay person.
Lol please, I’m not complaining about white people not being in there as much as I mean to criticize that you can’t represent everyone on a flag by skin color. That would have to be every color. I think it’s ridiculous to even aspire to add these extra colors, because it negates what the rainbow is supposed to represent,
The social construct of whiteness excludes so-called white people from having “colour” or “brownness”. These are objectively untrue of people with pale skin, because cream is a colour and a shade of brown. But white supremacists and white culture at large deny objective reality, and substitute their own. This is why the term “people of colour” is able to exist. If it weren’t for racists pretending white isn’t a colour, it wouldn’t make sense. In society, white people are privileged by being treated as though they do not have race. The privilege of being white is never having to think about your race if you don’t want to. It’s the default. If you say “a worker” or “a politician” or “a firefighter” or “a woman” or “a gay person”, society teaches people to think of a white person in all of those cases. Being nonwhite is considered a character trait, and being white isn’t. People of colour were often given less depth in older movies, and excluded from being the protagonist, and that’s still happening, because society says whiteness is the default. That whiteness… isn’t a characteristic. Within this social context, a brown line which is objectively the colour of “white skin”, subjectively excludes white people due to their social privilege.
I don’t want a flag that doesn’t include everyone for some weird queer theory or hetronormative analysis reason. 🙂😉
And that’s why the rainbow is enough. It speaks beyond all these complications. Adding brown to it implies that brown people were not part of the rainbow, that more need to be added. All we really needed to do was indicate that brown people like any people fall under the same gay flag, regardless of the current existing social dynamic relating to race.
Don’t quote me on this, but I feel like the reason the arrow is in the middle of this one is so it doesn’t get covered up by cars or something. Usually it’s at the end
I still get the classic flag 🏳️🌈 The whole point was that the colors aren’t skin color… They’re your goddamn soul. Being gay is all about being skittles on the inside, and those who attempt to divide us keep scribbling dumb ass skin colors on a perfectly balanced design.
I’m brown, I’m bisexual, I don’t feel any “more represented” by this flag. All I feel is someone didn’t go to design school.
It’s meant to acknowledge intersectionality. The ways that minority identities can overlap, creating more complex lived experiences for some individuals.
I don’t see how it does, to be honest.
Edit: I want to say, yes, I understand why those colors break right through the middle of the rainbow flag, but why? Does it really express what you hope for it to express?
And what abort white people? Where are their colors? I feel like this flag divides more than it brings anyone together. Seems like it only succeeded in bringing together a lot of SJW “political-correctness-gone-mad” types but not so much the average gay person.
White people don’t need to be represented in a flag, because white people are already represented everywhere.
FFS this is some all lives matter bullshit.
Lol please, I’m not complaining about white people not being in there as much as I mean to criticize that you can’t represent everyone on a flag by skin color. That would have to be every color. I think it’s ridiculous to even aspire to add these extra colors, because it negates what the rainbow is supposed to represent,
All human skin colours (including “white”) are shades of brown. The flag has a brown stripe for people of colour.
So if white is a shade of brown, then why is that stripe there? To signify what? That we all have skin?
The social construct of whiteness excludes so-called white people from having “colour” or “brownness”. These are objectively untrue of people with pale skin, because cream is a colour and a shade of brown. But white supremacists and white culture at large deny objective reality, and substitute their own. This is why the term “people of colour” is able to exist. If it weren’t for racists pretending white isn’t a colour, it wouldn’t make sense. In society, white people are privileged by being treated as though they do not have race. The privilege of being white is never having to think about your race if you don’t want to. It’s the default. If you say “a worker” or “a politician” or “a firefighter” or “a woman” or “a gay person”, society teaches people to think of a white person in all of those cases. Being nonwhite is considered a character trait, and being white isn’t. People of colour were often given less depth in older movies, and excluded from being the protagonist, and that’s still happening, because society says whiteness is the default. That whiteness… isn’t a characteristic. Within this social context, a brown line which is objectively the colour of “white skin”, subjectively excludes white people due to their social privilege.
I don’t want a flag that doesn’t include everyone for some weird queer theory or hetronormative analysis reason. 🙂😉
And that’s why the rainbow is enough. It speaks beyond all these complications. Adding brown to it implies that brown people were not part of the rainbow, that more need to be added. All we really needed to do was indicate that brown people like any people fall under the same gay flag, regardless of the current existing social dynamic relating to race.
Don’t quote me on this, but I feel like the reason the arrow is in the middle of this one is so it doesn’t get covered up by cars or something. Usually it’s at the end