Are you taking your kids to pride events?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

School shootings have taken my kid’s innocence. Active shooter drills are a reality.
Men on leashes laughing and smiling on a float is nothing.

So you take your kids to witness school shootings too? Where’s the equivalency here? Someone call CPS.

Active Shooter Drills are Gun Pride events.

[Anonymous]

While I'd absolutely love to attend with my kids, my first thought is always (unfortunately) that these events attract lunatics with weapons and agendas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m taking my 11 year old. We’ve been a few times. We are a 2 mom family. We usually watch in the family area ( Stead Park)
She can handle active shooter drills at school and has an escape plan. She can handle some scantily clad men having fun.

Agree.. and DC Pride is so tame. You see more at the beach. Then again, my daughter doesn't think it's a big deal to see two women, two men or a man and a woman kissing.

She has more anxiety about being shot at school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

School shootings have taken my kid’s innocence. Active shooter drills are a reality.
Men on leashes laughing and smiling on a float is nothing.

So you take your kids to witness school shootings too? Where’s the equivalency here? Someone call CPS.

Not the direct poster, but my job involves me working with law enforcement and families after an active shooter incident. My teen knows that I do this. Seeing a bunch of two mom or two dad families is a big nothing burger.

Again, there is a family section - it's really a bunch of lesbians with kids playing on swings. If that upsets you, move to Georgia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While I'd absolutely love to attend with my kids, my first thought is always (unfortunately) that these events attract lunatics with weapons and agendas.

Yup. I see a bunch of people on this thread that I assume would probably attack my kid. Lucky we are marching in the parade and then going straight home. Too worried about the crazy people from churches coming to kill us all.

[Anonymous]

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?

Why would you even ask?

What do you think would happen in this very thread if I posted some gay porn -- even if we're adults?

[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.

I wonder if this was an 80s thing because I remember seeing a similar event when I was a child. This was in Dupont but I don’t remember if it was a pride event or watt. It must’ve been because why else would I have seen that? It certainly made an impression because it’s stuck with me all of these years.

Pride has gotten a lot bigger and more mainstream since we were young.

IMO that makes it a bit overdone in some places.
If it's mainstream, it's nothing to be proud about. Enjoy the victory and move onward.

Pride isn't pride unless it's somewhere people hate it.
If everyone who doesn't like it can stay home and avoid it, it's in the wrong place.

[Anonymous]

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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.

This post refutes its own thesis about being "rational".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would I bother with this? Seriously??

We socialize with friends of all types. In our home, we model tolerance.

No need for us to schlep everyone to some raunchy parade to celebrate something everyone should already accept.

Agree. I don’t feel a need to take my kids to a parade celebrating people’s sexuality and sexual preferences. This is not at all comparable to going to a gay wedding as someone mentioned earlier in the thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would I bother with this? Seriously??

We socialize with friends of all types. In our home, we model tolerance.

No need for us to schlep everyone to some raunchy parade to celebrate something everyone should already accept.

Agree. I don’t feel a need to take my kids to a parade celebrating people’s sexuality and sexual preferences. This is not at all comparable to going to a gay wedding as someone mentioned earlier in the thread

Sexual orientation, it's not a preference. Are you gay but prefer to be straight? No.

Don't be an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I wonder if this was an 80s thing because I remember seeing a similar event when I was a child. This was in Dupont but I don’t remember if it was a pride event or watt. It must’ve been because why else would I have seen that? It certainly made an impression because it’s stuck with me all of these years.

Pride has gotten a lot bigger and more mainstream since we were young.

IMO that makes it a bit overdone in some places.
If it's mainstream, it's nothing to be proud about. Enjoy the victory and move onward.

Pride isn't pride unless it's somewhere people hate it.
If everyone who doesn't like it can stay home and avoid it, it's in the wrong place.

We celebrate other things that involve the ending of something bad. Juneteenth, the 4th of July, Veteran's Day (Armistice Day in other countries), Women's Suffrage, Passover. So, even if we get to the point where discrimination and violence towards LGBT+ people is completely over, then celebration might be in order.

But, unfortunately, we aren't there yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would I bother with this? Seriously??

We socialize with friends of all types. In our home, we model tolerance.

No need for us to schlep everyone to some raunchy parade to celebrate something everyone should already accept.

Agree. I don’t feel a need to take my kids to a parade celebrating people’s sexuality and sexual preferences. This is not at all comparable to going to a gay wedding as someone mentioned earlier in the thread

Sexual orientation, it's not a preference. Are you gay but prefer to be straight? No.

Don't be an idiot.

NP. Pride parades often do celebrate preferences (thus leather/leashes/bondage/twinks etc). Nothing wrong with that but isn’t it possible that parents think that’s a step past “it’s totally fine to be gay and be proud of that”?

Also the focus on “born this way” rather than “chose this way” is such a sop to progressives. If gay people chose to be gay, would that change how you felt about them/pride?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would I bother with this? Seriously??

We socialize with friends of all types. In our home, we model tolerance.

No need for us to schlep everyone to some raunchy parade to celebrate something everyone should already accept.

Agree. I don’t feel a need to take my kids to a parade celebrating people’s sexuality and sexual preferences. This is not at all comparable to going to a gay wedding as someone mentioned earlier in the thread

Sexual orientation, it's not a preference. Are you gay but prefer to be straight? No.

Don't be an idiot.

NP. Pride parades often do celebrate preferences (thus leather/leashes/bondage/twinks etc). Nothing wrong with that but isn’t it possible that parents think that’s a step past “it’s totally fine to be gay and be proud of that”?

Also the focus on “born this way” rather than “chose this way” is such a sop to progressives. If gay people chose to be gay, would that change how you felt about them/pride?

If Santa was real would that change how I felt about Christmas? I can't answer something that isn't true. Gay people are born that way. I have a gay child, this is who she is. She doesn't have a preference for it -

And why is everyone so obsessed with the bondage aspect of pride? I've been going for decades and rarely see this. Am I missing a really cool event somewhere?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I wonder if this was an 80s thing because I remember seeing a similar event when I was a child. This was in Dupont but I don’t remember if it was a pride event or watt. It must’ve been because why else would I have seen that? It certainly made an impression because it’s stuck with me all of these years.

Pride has gotten a lot bigger and more mainstream since we were young.

IMO that makes it a bit overdone in some places.
If it's mainstream, it's nothing to be proud about. Enjoy the victory and move onward.

Pride isn't pride unless it's somewhere people hate it.
If everyone who doesn't like it can stay home and avoid it, it's in the wrong place.

We celebrate other things that involve the ending of something bad. Juneteenth, the 4th of July, Veteran's Day (Armistice Day in other countries), Women's Suffrage, Passover. So, even if we get to the point where discrimination and violence towards LGBT+ people is completely over, then celebration might be in order.

But, unfortunately, we aren't there yet.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Pride isn't saying the end of discrimination and violence. And what is passover the "end of" I don't get your post at all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would I bother with this? Seriously??

We socialize with friends of all types. In our home, we model tolerance.

No need for us to schlep everyone to some raunchy parade to celebrate something everyone should already accept.

Agree. I don’t feel a need to take my kids to a parade celebrating people’s sexuality and sexual preferences. This is not at all comparable to going to a gay wedding as someone mentioned earlier in the thread

Sexual orientation, it's not a preference. Are you gay but prefer to be straight? No.

Don't be an idiot.

Orientation or preference - it isn’t something celebratory in my point of view. I don’t care to celebrate anyone’s sexual orientation, especially with my kids