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Idaho bar celebrates "Heterosexual Awesomeness Month" with free beer for straight men
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this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2024
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Honestly, I'd love to have more healthy representation of straights.
We never went anywhere, we are the majority, and most of us here in Gen X and Gen Z have nothing against LGBTQ+ people.
Yet when we see any hetero activism, it's mostly about screwing LGBTQ+ people over, not showing the beauty and variety of hetero relationships, which is not only the traditional nuclear family.
This skews many people's perception of what hetero relationships are and/or allowed to be. There is so much in there, all sorts of dynamics, all sorts of approaches, a beautiful spectre of whatever it can be.
And this is something to be celebrated - along with the beauty and awesomeness of LGBTQ+, not as an opposition.
As a straight man, I feel like I've been represented plenty and still am in media. What exactly are you looking for that you aren't seeing? There are thousands of years of representation, still continuing to this day. Don't get me wrong, free beer is awesome but not sure why anyone feels unrepresented as a straight person.
The answer is the old chestnut,
People like those you're responding to often see the world as a zero-sum game. If LGBTQ+ people carve out -- or in this case, demand -- representation for themselves, they believe that representation must take away "representation points" or whatever from some other group.
Frankly, Pride is the one time of year it's okay to tell these people to shut the fuck up and sit down.
Uh, no. I think I've been super clear in my support for LGBTQ+ community and their representation.
I meant that many kinds of heterosexual couples are barely covered by modern culture, and it's important to show that hetero couples can be very different and still amazing.
Because what I see on hetero couples on the media is just one, very traditional, kind of relationship. That's not how all heterosexual relationships look, and it's important to show that so that people would be more free to be themselves and build their futures in freedom. Freedom to be the kind of heterosexuals they want to be, if they are hetero to begin with.