Are you taking your kids to pride events?

[Anonymous]

I witnessed a Pride event when I was 8 or 9. BDSM, naked/almost naked men on leashes, etc. It wasn't the most traumatizing thing I experienced as a child, but I won't be taking my own kids. Let them have their innocence.

[Anonymous]

My kid IS the Pride event!

Happy Pride, y’all!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I witnessed a Pride event when I was 8 or 9. BDSM, naked/almost naked men on leashes, etc. It wasn't the most traumatizing thing I experienced as a child, but I won't be taking my own kids. Let them have their innocence.

This exactly. All the kink stuff is genuinely traumatizing for kids, and I have no idea what parents think they are achieving by exposing kids to that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of you are so pressed that other parents don't want to take their kids to pride events, LOL. If other parents think it's not for them and their kids, how does that affect you and your kids?

If you were truly into it, you wouldn't care at all about outside opinions. You care what other parents think when you're doing it primarily to virtue signal.

I think it affects other kids when these parents teach lies to their children about gay people using terms like sexual deviants. The same parents who don’t teach their children what to do if someone from the church touches them inappropriately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I witnessed a Pride event when I was 8 or 9. BDSM, naked/almost naked men on leashes, etc. It wasn't the most traumatizing thing I experienced as a child, but I won't be taking my own kids. Let them have their innocence.

This exactly. All the kink stuff is genuinely traumatizing for kids, and I have no idea what parents think they are achieving by exposing kids to that.

I went with my kid last year. I did not see any kink, nudity or BDSM. As others who have actually gone to DC pride recently have said, it’s very tame and corporate with lots of family, church and other civic groups.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh hell no

Going to Chick-Fil-A instead?

Not to get sidetracked, but IMO boycotting Chick-fil-A for the reason you’re implying is privileged and performative. Boycotting a fast food place is not going to make any difference in the world. Do something meaningful if you do something at all. Shaming people unnecessarily does not make the world better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh hell no

Going to Chick-Fil-A instead?

Not to get sidetracked, but IMO boycotting Chick-fil-A for the reason you’re implying is privileged and performative. Boycotting a fast food place is not going to make any difference in the world. Do something meaningful if you do something at all. Shaming people unnecessarily does not make the world better.

Plus their milkshakes rock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh hell no

Going to Chick-Fil-A instead?

Not to get sidetracked, but IMO boycotting Chick-fil-A for the reason you’re implying is privileged and performative. Boycotting a fast food place is not going to make any difference in the world. Do something meaningful if you do something at all. Shaming people unnecessarily does not make the world better.

I've got my Adderall and day planner. I can walk AND chew gum. I can not go to Chick-fil-A and still have plenty of time to throw back a Bud Light and march in a parade and go to work to make some money to donate to Trevor Project

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh hell no

Going to Chick-Fil-A instead?

Not to get sidetracked, but IMO boycotting Chick-fil-A for the reason you’re implying is privileged and performative. Boycotting a fast food place is not going to make any difference in the world. Do something meaningful if you do something at all. Shaming people unnecessarily does not make the world better.

Plus their milkshakes rock.

Except the got rid of large and now charge large prices for what used to be the small cup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh hell no

Going to Chick-Fil-A instead?

Not to get sidetracked, but IMO boycotting Chick-fil-A for the reason you’re implying is privileged and performative. Boycotting a fast food place is not going to make any difference in the world. Do something meaningful if you do something at all. Shaming people unnecessarily does not make the world better.

Plus their milkshakes rock.

Except the got rid of large and now charge large prices for what used to be the small cup.

Good. People need to consume less food

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve normally attended pride events in Atlanta before kids. These were borderline raunchy - if you are similar to my age — pride in Atlanta was borderline freaknik for the black lgbtq community. Not particularly kid friendly. Lots of skin exposure, pda, etc. I was only there for the glitter and feather boas! Having not been in Dc for pride - have any of you attended and is it appropriate to bring your kids?

Never seen one that was kid friendly, which is unsurprising because pride month is fundamentally about sex. It's like Oktoberfest stuff. That's fundamentally about drinking alcohol, also not kid-friendly.

Pride is not fundamentally about sex. At least no more than a straight wedding is fundamentally about sex.

I would have thought the relevant analogy to a straight wedding would have been a gay wedding. I didn’t realize that pride events only celebrated people making a solemn commitment to devote their lives to each other.

Both are celebrations of romantic love.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you are so pressed that other parents don't want to take their kids to pride events, LOL. If other parents think it's not for them and their kids, how does that affect you and your kids?

If you were truly into it, you wouldn't care at all about outside opinions. You care what other parents think when you're doing it primarily to virtue signal.

I think it affects other kids when these parents teach lies to their children about gay people using terms like sexual deviants. The same parents who don’t teach their children what to do if someone from the church touches them inappropriately.

You have very warped and weird ideas about what straight couples tell their kids about gays. We are rational atheists. We tell our children that some men prefer to marry other men, and some women prefer to marry other women, and that there are some people who prefer to live as the opposite gender. And because they get factual knowledge at home, they don't need to get magic sky daddy propaganda at church nor sexual messages/grooming at raunchy pride parades.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve normally attended pride events in Atlanta before kids. These were borderline raunchy - if you are similar to my age — pride in Atlanta was borderline freaknik for the black lgbtq community. Not particularly kid friendly. Lots of skin exposure, pda, etc. I was only there for the glitter and feather boas! Having not been in Dc for pride - have any of you attended and is it appropriate to bring your kids?

Never seen one that was kid friendly, which is unsurprising because pride month is fundamentally about sex. It's like Oktoberfest stuff. That's fundamentally about drinking alcohol, also not kid-friendly.

Pride is not fundamentally about sex. At least no more than a straight wedding is fundamentally about sex.

I would have thought the relevant analogy to a straight wedding would have been a gay wedding. I didn’t realize that pride events only celebrated people making a solemn commitment to devote their lives to each other.

Both are celebrations of romantic love.

A dinner date and a long walk on the beach is a celebration of romantic love. Pride is about publicly claiming one's identity regarding sexuality and gender differences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh hell no

Going to Chick-Fil-A instead?

Not to get sidetracked, but IMO boycotting Chick-fil-A for the reason you’re implying is privileged and performative. Boycotting a fast food place is not going to make any difference in the world. Do something meaningful if you do something at all. Shaming people unnecessarily does not make the world better.

I've got my Adderall and day planner. I can walk AND chew gum. I can not go to Chick-fil-A and still have plenty of time to throw back a Bud Light and march in a parade and go to work to make some money to donate to Trevor Project

And I can I can go to Chick-fil-A and still have plenty of time to throw back a Bud Light and march in a parade and go to work to make some money to donate to Trevor Project. I don’t understand your point, though your opening jokes were funny.

[Anonymous]

We live on 17th St in Dupont so it’s pride every day but we’re not going to the actual parade. I am avoiding all crowds until America regulates guns.