Virtue SignalingGovernment of Canada declares summer "Pride Season" through official Twitter account

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1 month isn’t enough

It's more than enough.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A week would have been preferable.

[–]julesburm1891 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Neither Halloween nor Christmas get that amount of airtime and they are both infinitely more enjoyable holidays.

[–]PatsyStoneMaverique[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My guess would be they're timing this to coincide with the summer school break, which would make it more than two months.

[–]Rosefield 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Hell no

[–]PatsyStoneMaverique[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Freetobeme is an official government account linked to the LGBTQ Secretary.

I find it significant that a national government is doing this.

  1. Who's making the decisions here?

  2. What's their goal? What are they trying to accomplish?

[–]latuspodSuper Straight 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Kind of weird to announce this a few days into June and not at the beginning. Though I suppose they wanted the outrage towards the residential schools to die down before they claimed everyone's favourite season.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do any people non-ironically use two-spirit?

[–]PatsyStoneMaverique[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If you're from one of the tribes where it's culturally meaningful, presumably.

What confuses me is that I thought it was a southwestern U.S. thing, so what tribes in Canada are they accommodating?

[–]latuspodSuper Straight 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Pretty sure it started in Canada. The term is new, came about in the 90's in English and then was translated back into some Native languages. The term is somewhat problematic at times because in a way it homogenizes the different cultures and traditions within different tribes. And Canada atleast was pretty brutal in stamping out Native culture and heritage to the point where it is difficult to recover. Post-colonial theory (also started in Canada) has also made a mess of it all in a different way.

[–]RippoffOfLoveSStraight | Overuses quotation marks 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Looking at the replies, they seem to be doing more harm than anything. Which I guess is the spirit of modern pride, so they must be doing it right.