Pride Day mini-linkspam

[firecat]

Because it's Pride Day. But the links are not about Pride Day. (Happy Pride, and congratulations to all the people who wanted to get married but couldn't, who can now.)

Cartoon sums up how emotions are viewed through gender. "Part of the effort of feminism to make the world safer for all genders, including men, is de-gendering normal human experiences, and destigmatizing things associated with femininity."
http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/06/the-media-mens-emotions/

@Niall_JayDub drew this image of Bree Newsome taking down the Confederate flag at the South Caroline state Capitol. You can order a print.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/238538979/still
You can sign this petition asking that her charges be dropped.
http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/DropTheFlagDropTheCharges/

A trans* former employee of Facebook (who helped developed the custom gender feature) is not allowed to use on her Facebook account the name that was on her work badge when she worked there.
https://medium.com/@zip/my-name-is-only-real-enough-to-work-at-facebook-not-to-use-on-the-site-c37daf3f4b03

Comments

[leafrider.livejournal.com]

I have never understood that need to fly the confederate flag, and hang on to it when it offends so many people. No matter what fantasy one believes about the Civil War not being about slavery, there are so many people who see it as a symbol of oppression that it should not be an official current-day flag. End of story. Put it in a museum, but don't fly it. Historically the Swastika began as a Hindu sun symbol. But just because that's its history it does not mean we should ignore how many people would be offended by it and blithely fly it and try to say "that's not what it means" - it's offensive and that is enough.

Besides, to say that any image symbolizes one thing in particular and only that one thing simply shows how many people don't even understand the meaning of the word "symbol". A state flag should represent something meaningful and empowering or inspiring to the people of a state, not be a symbol that means hatred to so many.