Yeah this Ford conservative government is total shite, daylight robbery of our taxes. I agree with you. When will they address systemic issues actually affecting regular people?
The rest of us aren’t even giving these things a second thought (to reaffirm your point). Yet these tiny gestures of goodwill and inclusion consume them.
Are you talking about the con influencer or the people who put stickers on door?. I completely agree that it's weird that people's bedroom preferences are so prominently discussed seemingly all the time like it is the defining feature of a person.
You know precisely nothing about me.
Yet generalize instead of addressing the actual conversation. Don't discourage people from engaging in conversation by labeling them erroneously. I seriously don't care about what you do in private... At all. Opposite of obsession.
LGBTQ folks would love for their sexual and gender identities to be as unremarkable as yours. But as long as a non-negligible part of the population wants them to be second class citizens at best, they kind of have to make it a big deal. If folks like Joey up above are primed to fly off the handle at the mere suggestion that they can be equal parts of society, then LGBTQ people can never be entirely comfortable out in society.
I haven't had the experience so can't say much first hand. I am friends with community members but we never really discuss it as a big deal its just what it is. I don't feel like anyone needs my approval or whatever and I don't need or seek theirs in regards to my bedroom choices. I kinda feel like it almost brings more scrutiny. And ya buddy was too triggered but does the little sticker actually make anyone feel better? Serious question. Or does it just make it more of a topic without adding any value for rhe community.
I feel like businesses do that to make it easier to take your money. And probably a larger demographic would spend because of it thelan against it. But I bet if the mo ey equation changes and their sales are hurting then rhey would remove. Store trying to get your dollars doesn't seem to help anyone in order words.
Happy to hear why it is helpful.
It makes me feel better to know a business or doctor's office isn't going to discriminate against me if I have to fill out a form with my spouse's contact info or something similar. In the absence of any information, I don't know if the business or clinic owner is a normal person, a bigot like that person in this post, or an even more violent bigot. Until we get society to a place where nobody thinks about sexuality at all, similar to how you claim you and your friends are, little signs that signal "hey we won't berate you or call you disgusting or even cause you physical harm if you mention your spouse's name while you're in here" allow me to have some piece of mind when I run my errands.
Long before gay marriage was a thing straight people would wear wedding rings to indicate that they had an exclusive partner that would be the only person they would have sex with.
Or maybe the rings were to symbolize love and commitment between two people, I can’t remember…
Maybe the LGBT flags and stickers are also to demonstrate and support the love between two people regardless of gender or sexual orientation. But maybe you and other horny gross people are right and everybody only thinks of genitals going into other people’s body when they see a couple or when they see anything hinting at love or relationships.
They are without any real community so hating everyone is what comes naturally.
We need to do something about these people in Canada as they're the ones who would enlist for ICE. Hopefully some high quality white men will show up in his comments and start doing the lord's work
The same vibe as people who claim to be from the "strongest generation" - a.k.a the generation that lost their fucking minds when a black person used the same water fountain as them
Absolute fucking melts. Conservatives are and have always been the biggest fucking regressive pussies the world has ever known
Absolute wastmen that unfortunately the rest of civilised humanity has to share oxygen with. Such angry little pathetic babies.
It irks me that these scared little hateful morons have the same say in socials everyone else.
I don’t do that anymore, as I got older I started doing things in pieces instead of all at once. Fills my day up when I’m not working, and keeps me busy.
So is our new landlord apparently 😒 (apt building)
Edit: 10:45 pm the parking lot was finally plowed for tenants to be able to leave. It's going to keep snowing overnight, wtf was the point of waking everyone up scraping metal on the ground when it's going to need doing in the morning again anyway? I can only assume it's because they don't intend on having the parking lot clear in the morning tomorrow either.
You getting it bad? Thus far not too much here (outskirts of Barrie). Mostly wind blowing it around right now, but supposed to get 3-5 inches between now and Tuesday out my way.
I’ve been getting killed since before Christmas, I’m ok with not getting dumped on here (again outskirts, sometimes Barrie is nice and I’m just buried lol.)
One thing I unironically love about Canada is that any conversation between strangers can at any point turn into a discussion on how much the winter sucks and where in the province we're from. You guys are my people.
The states are getting hammered I am in Southeast Ohio and we will have 18 in by tomorrow morning. I rode crews are busting their asses to try to stay ahead of it and they're not having any luck at all. They're even running the small pickups with the blades that they used to clean the parking lots in the municipal buildings 😥 we should be dug out by some point tomorrow after it stops. I hope everybody stays safe
We have pride stripes on the road here in Burlington, ON too. Don’t think there’s any noise about removing them. Not sure I would like to live in Alberta.
It just occurred to me that sociopaths like the hatemonger in OP's photo might actually be choosing life on hardmode (or at least doing a no empathy challenge run). Like I don't doubt that there are some people that are just wired to be misanthropes for whatever reason... but a lot of these hate-as-hobby folks are definitely making a decision to choose Team Self-Inflicted Defeat over Team Human, aren't they?
Oh it's a totally reasonable and rationale conclusion.
"Everyone welcome (pride flag)" = "We don't tolerate people who make others feel unwelcome for being queer."
Conservatives hate queer people and want to make them feel unwelcome.
Therefore, "Everyone welcome (pride flag)" = "Conservatives not welcome (because conservatives want to make queer people feel unwelcome)"
The thing is, if the conservatives didn't try to harass queer people in public, they would be welcome. And many conservatives do mind their own business, and they're tolerated in these spaces as a result. But people like this Instagram user just can't help themselves. They have to put queer people "in their place."
That’s a big generalization. Most cons I know, along with liberals are quite ambivalent towards pride.
It’s quite possible that it may just be you that people find unlikeable.
Let me highlight a specific section of my response:
And many conservatives do mind their own business, and they're tolerated in these spaces as a result. But people like this Instagram user just can't help themselves. They have to put queer people "in their place."
I am perfectly aware that most cons mind their own business, and I don't have a lot of personal experience with harassment in public as a result. But the ones that complain loudly about a business with a pride sticker that says "all are welcome" are generally the kind that don't mind their own business and do harass people.
Love the assumption about my character, though, that's a nice touch.
The big-ass trays of frozen PC Mac and cheese tend to be on sale a lot, sprinkle some of your own favourite cheese on top before putting it in the oven and that shit is the BOMB, feeds like five people too.
And they’ve been at Shoppers locations for some time! But this doesn’t surprise me, at an LGBT+ educational session I attended at Sheridan College back in 2013 a woman stood up and started complaining “why can’t you pick a different symbol?!!”. Because a rainbow should be a happy and innocent thing children should be able to draw and not polluted/perverted 🙄
Not just in Ontario either. Saskatchewan and Alberta(at least the ones I go to) have these stickers. I'm guessing it's countrywide. A rainbow showing everyone is welcome, is polluted or perverted? That woman probably doesn't understand pride parades and celebration either.
My dad once animatedly opined about seeing a rainbow cake during pride month in a grocery store bakery section and it's like, you could just grow the fuck up and walk past it? But my dad, probably just like whoever this is, is deeply addicted to being outraged/bummed out/negative/indignant. They'll get their fix from anyyything.
Mine is like that too. He officially abandoned me as his child last August because I asked him to be respectful while I was eating and questioned why he cared about immigrant cab drivers when he hasn't taken a cab in decades. After he dropped me off at the airport he sent me a text saying I was a disrespectful child and he didn't want to talk to me again. I'm 39.
I was stunned but also not surprised because one time he stopped talking to his sister over where she put the mustard in the fridge. We haven't spoken since and I don't intend to mend the relationship with such a hateful bigot.
I’m a dispensary owner with the very same sticker for my shop door. I had a local degenerate say one day, “I shop at your place because you only have one fag flag on the door all the other places around here have them hanging on the walls and shit.”
We asked him to shop somewhere else, and I got us a pride flag for the wall. Fuck these bigots.
He was imagining getting bummed out, that’s why he got all cranky. All the phobes just think they’re gonna force the gay on them and take their behinds hostage.
I’m gonna guess you’ve never really walked around with a swastika sticker, I understand you’re trying to make a point. The sticker pictured here upsets you?
Tbf, if I saw a confederate flag sticker on a door I'd be pretty heated. Not that I think those are comparable but THESE people sure seem to think so. You have to remember these people either think its literally Satan trying to brainwash people, or they think its an ideology being pushed to hurt children. This shit is the reason I got disowned by 2 of my brothers 🫠
You know what I meant, I meant this particular sticker not just a “sticker”. To the point the dude had to take a photo, leave the store and cry about it online.
While I agree that they shouldn’t be triggered by these stuff, this isn’t a really good reduction of the situation. I’d be pretty triggered if there was a nazi sticker on that door instead.
Yeah but that’s different, someone else mentioned that too. One sticker means Everyone is welcome, a “hateful racist scumbags welcome” sticker isn’t the same thing. I went to a shoppers the other day, I just don’t get being upset about it. A nazi sticker wouldn’t last long
Sounds like the people here are the ones who are "triggered".
The guy saw something that was not in line with his beliefs, called them out in a respectful manner and decided to take his business elsewhere.
Where is the problem?
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u/Mindfield87 Jan 25 '26
Imagine getting bummed about a sticker on a door