in the past we already had issues with the flag for not being a good representation of the community as a whole, and that was just the colors, just the idea that it wasn’t made with the whole community in mind so this new information is even worse. the very person that created this flag is everything we’re not supposed to be. this needs to be addressed. this blows. i don’t want a person like this deciding how we define and represent our community wtf
Wtf seriously??? That fucking sucks ass
Please reblog
This article makes a pretty damn good case for a new flag that’s not even a LITTLE BIT even AESTHETICALLY related to the lesbian flag, but keeps with the “stripes of color” thing most people seem to prefer (since while I love the labrys flag, I know it’s contentious and I’ll admit I wish it’d been designed by an actual lesbian instead of a supportive gay man).
And the colors are inspired by a Sappho poem, y’all, i can’t even.
[Image is of a flag with four equally sized horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: purple, gold, green, and pink]
I have not had one word from her
Frankly I wish I were dead When she left, she wept a great deal; she said to me, “This parting must be endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly.”
I said, “Go, and be happy but remember (you know well) whom you leave shackled by love
“If you forget me, think of our gifts to Aphrodite and all the loveliness that we shared
“all the violet tiaras, braided rosebuds, dill and crocus twined around your young neck
“myrrh poured on your head and on soft mats girls with all that they most wished for beside them
“while no voices chanted choruses without ours, no woodlot bloomed in spring without song…”
—Sappho, translated by Mary Barnard
here’s the flag w/ the meanings!
Another thing I haven’t seen pointed out is that the new flag would be significantly easier to make as an actual flag. The colors are all distinct and don’t require a ton of different shades of the same color that ends up hard or impossible to find all the colors for. The same goes for any other products you might wanna make with pride flag colors.
They don’t even know they’re being abusive most of the time. Especially women. There’s a picture in society that only men, especially straight men can be abusers and that if anyone else does it it “doesn’t count.”
That’s why a lot of abusive LGBT people can understand if a husband is abusing his wife but don’t understand that when they do the same behaviour it’s abuse too.
We need to teach people that abusers can be anybody.
…. I just had a meeting with a parent. He had a phone call and stepped out, leaving his three year old daughter with her tablet in the office. The second her dad leaves…. she starts playing porn. Incredibly loud…. on her tablet…. When I went to get her father to tell him she turned it off… but he checked the history and saw that I was telling the truth… and she was so mad that she was caught watching porn… I….. I’m….
I have a strong feeling the child found the dads porn collection and she doesn’t know what the implications are of what she’s seeing. She just thinks it’s “people wrestling naked” and doesn’t know that it’s bad/wrong.
I have never had to really care for another human being in this way. please help
Are you searching for tips or an actual step by step?
Tips
Edit: for some reason I read that and thought you had a girlfriend. I would say that cuddling is key.
You can’t “be a good girlfriend” in general. You can only be a good girlfriend to one specific person, in the sense that what’s “good” to one person may be “bad” for another one.
You should observe the person you’re with and see what they like and dislike.
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