• Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
    77·
    10 months ago

    I’m old and out of touch. I bought asexual branded shoelaces because I thought they were nice colours. My daughter laughed at me.

      • reev@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago

        I wonder if there’s some correlation with pride flags and who they represent. I adore the ace colors and fall in that spectrum so I’ve always wondered if it was like that for others too.

        If that even makes any sense.

        • Pirky@lemmy.world
          7·
          10 months ago

          I will say, I am more partial to the bi colors than pan and that’s one reason I ID as it despite maybe more closely aligning with pan.

          Also relatively few people outside of the LGBT community know the bi colors. Which means I can wear them somewhere on me for people to see. So it’s like a secret code to other agenda members without outting myself in this small conservative town.

          • felbane@lemmy.world
            7·
            10 months ago

            agenda members

            I absolutely love it when a community co-opts a term that’s supposed to be denigrating and squelches the offensiveness by using it to refer to themselves. It’s like the linguistic version of pulling off a glove one finger at a time and then smacking the shit out of the people calling you names.

            Granted “the LGBT agenda” is less an insult and more of a dogwhistle for bigots, but I still think what you did there is neat.

    • Lumelore (She/her)English
      25·
      10 months ago

      This reminds me of when I wore trans pride socks and my mom thought that they were just regular stripy socks and she said “I used to wear socks like that when I was your age” and my sister and I were so confused lmao.

      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        10 months ago

        I’m a fabric geek, I don’t really care about colour I’m going for plane and shape. At one point I found out about dazzle camouflage from WW1. I started using it as a motif in everything I made. Two easy examples-

        I laughed and laughed when I found out black and white stripes was the hetero flag. I got that right anyway 🤣

  • aname@lemmy.one
    68·
    10 months ago

    Sounds quite close minded. I know plenty cis people who have worn pride clothing. That’s just a support merch.

    I mean, wearing a Volvo t-shirt doesn’t make me a Volvo employee.

  • nomad@infosec.pub
    63·
    10 months ago

    “Nowadays you can’t tell” looking left… you gonna come out already or not?

    OP: THEY are so oblivious.

  • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    10 months ago

    I know the point is more about being passing, but imo the goal should be for all people to simply appear to be people. No boxes, no labels, just people who are respected as citizens, as humans