First off, let me admit up front that as a straight white male who rejects state socialism, I know already that my opinion is irrelevant at best to the woke crowd. However, for those of you who retain a spark of sanity, let's take a look at this mess and dissect it a bit.
That puts the LOL in vexilLOLogy! See the tweet here.
Wasn't the point of the rainbow flag to be inclusive already? It doesn't need to add anything. Trying to add elements for every possible subgroup is inherently exclusionary, since someone will feel overlooked. Further, while the rainbow pattern deviates from typical color standards in heraldry and vexillology, it is a unique design that can't be confused for anything else. Adding new elements only detracts from it.
I am of half a mind to dismiss this as Poe's Law making satire too difficult to differentiate from true believer statements.
Am I way off-base here? Any LGBTQ etc. perspective I am clumsily overlooking in my analysis? Am I just not fabulous enough to appreciate the subtleties of this new flag? Comment below! If you're not in the HIVE ecosystem yet, join via PeakD here and I'll even delegate some Hive Power to you while you get started, even if you just want to criticize me.
As a person of Greek descent, I object that there is no olive color.
Where is the support for SuperStraight?
I think even mentioning that term makes you a Literal Nazi™
You know, I could have gone on a vexillological diatribe about how the rainbow flag was an objectively bad design from word go, I could have expressed my confusion regarding the addition of the purple ring inside a yellow triangle for a number of reasons, but fuck it, I'm just going to tell you how I feel right now:
I know, it's probably too many stripes, and it doesn't properly separate colors with white or yellow bands the way colors are separated by metals in heraldry. That's a basic issue separating it from traditional flags
Now, it just looks confusing.
That's because they are confused...
Reminds of how kids draw make belief flags ( I know I did!). Also I don't understand why sexual preferences need a flag. But yes, it's all beyond parody now.
( Have you seen the Strasserist Femboy flag? You'd think that is a joke, but no there are Strasserist crossdresser)
I don't even know what that is.
You are blessed.
Well, I looked up Strasserism. It looks like an even more lame variety of Nazi bullshit. I'm happier not delving into the "femboy" aspect.
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