Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:58:43 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Welcome to Another Corporate Pandering, er, Pride Month User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:55:22 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 50 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-egmUdUNr1W02SnhAnuu7wB577BENTXFm93aOrvQ+C68lnV3BsGWfah+bxeKW9epHq43lvhIqeLO/HbC!v3TaAQkZYfhIVlKUYeA59/vMExwEqiP45l8vIAhIUyhY+P9CMcVk+956YXXincG1NeNmmp+5Tkk3!c8U= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3233 First question that ought to spring to everyone's mind is, why is it that soldiers who gave their lives defending the country only get one day of remembrance but the purple-haired freak with a dildo stuck on the top of his head gets an entire month? Next up, have you ever noticed how all these corporations change their logos to rainbows for Pride Month here in America but overseas, in places like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, their logos remain unchanged. It's almost like they're not really taking a stand for LGBTQIA-LMNOP rights at all, just pandering for the social justice credit where they think they can get away with it and avoiding it like the plague where they know it will hurt them. "But," you might say, "the reason they don't change the logos in places like Saudi Arabia is because they don't want to be beheaded for violating Islamic religious laws hostile to gay people." Which means these corporations only advocate for human rights when it's safe and comfy and without risk. How stunning. How brave. How stunningly brave. But these stunningly brave corporations weren't on board with celebrating gays here in America, either, when there was no danger of physical violence. Just social disapproval. You didn't see any corporate sponsorships and rainbow logo changes back when Pride first started, when gays actually *needed* their support. You see, homosexuality was controversial back then and corporations just want money, not controversy. Now that the battle has been safely won, they're all over Pride, virtue-signaling by pretending to help smash down doors that have already been opened long ago without their help. So Coca-Cola sponsors Pride events in Los Angeles, but do you think they'll do the same thing in Uganda, where the support of a billion-dollar multi-national corporation with significant influence over government officials can make a helluva difference for gay rights? Don't hold your breath. Meanwhile, PostMates has re-published their "Bottom-Friendly" menu for Gay Pride Month. I honestly never thought I'd see "How to avoid shitting on a dick while getting fucked in the ass" as a marketing campaign for food delivery, but here we are. Sweet meteor of death, what's taking you so long?