'Straight white guy festival' causes controversy

I am American and you need to stop generalising based on something you Googled or heard or saw on your news cast. As you said we have far more issues here and there is no feminist "movement" anywhere. There are simply concessions to women's rights, as that is exercised in our Constitution. There are no movements, there are political gestures that succeed. And women are quite discriminated against they make less than men on the same job, or that they don't have fair maternity leave, for example; there is also a glass ceiling here that warms seats for wealthy older straight men; everyone else has a steep climb. So of course to exercise our civil rights there are going to be grants that women need should they qualify. There's nothing here that says "no men can get this." It's about qualifications and civil rights.

It's not a compulsory part of our curriculum. From KS1 to KS3, I was only taught the history of Europe, and had black history once a month every year. By KS4, they scrapped Black History because it wasn't a compulsory part of the curriculum. But if we took up GCSE History, we may have had the opportunity to learn about American & Southern Asia History. But the point stands that the focus is Great Britain.

A typical aspect about you such as your race, gender, nationality, sexuality etc, isn't an achievement and does not warrant celebration. Things like Pride exist not to celebrate being LGBT, but to counter all the negativity that the LGBT community have gotten from society, and for many members, still continue to get. Same can be said for many ethnic minorities. If you are white you generally get a better treatment from society, and even more so if you aren't LGBT. It isn't about being proud of something you haven't achieved and can't be changed, but rather not being ashamed of something that is a part of who you are.

Other Americans would disagree with you though. And I just disagree tbh. Theres so many campaigns just discriminating against men coming from feminist organisations. I get them coming up on my facebook newsfeed all the time as well because I have american friends forwarding them.



ye exactly this is what I've been saying and so many people have a problem with it.

Most of this discrimination nonsense cannot even be proved, it's largely just theorys and hysteria to suit certain agendas and policys. When people want a certain policy the best way to get it seems to be crying unfairness.

Women are not being discriminated against, prove it. I'm sure some are, but not to the extent you fabricate or create the illusion.

In my experience, attractive women are highly sought after by male employers and hired, they're the first choice. When I was at Uni, priority was given to female students for accomodation, especially if they were hot.

Attractive women get the biggest breaks out of everyone.

By that logic, we shouldn't celebrate birthdays.

I don't see the issue with people celebrating their identity if they wish to. The reason for the existence of Pride specifically is kind of irrelevant.

By that logic, we shouldn't celebrate birthdays.

I don't see the issue with people celebrating their identity if they wish to. The reason for the existence of Pride specifically is kind of irrelevant.

Not necessarily, birthdays are a celebration of life and progression, the latter being an achievement. Your skin colour isn't really an achievement.

Staying alive is an achievement?

As far as I'm aware, people tend to celebrate birthdays regardless of what they may or may not have achieved in the year, and independently of whether survival is considered difficult where they live.

If you feel like you are being made to feel ashamed because of your race/cultural identity then I can't convince you otherwise, but you have to recognise that legally LGBT/ethnic minorities have been prosecuted against on such a scale that the 'British' you speak of never have and probably never will.

I am American and you need to stop generalising based on something you Googled or heard or saw on your news cast. As you said we have far more issues here and there is no feminist "movement" anywhere. There are simply concessions to women's rights, as that is exercised in our Constitution. There are no movements, there are political gestures that succeed. And women are quite discriminated against they make less than men on the same job, or that they don't have fair maternity leave, for example; there is also a glass ceiling here that warms seats for wealthy older straight men; everyone else has a steep climb. So of course to exercise our civil rights there are going to be grants that women need should they qualify. There's nothing here that says "no men can get this." It's about qualifications and civil rights.

That is an outright lie.

You need to learn the definition of discrimination. And it is feminist organizations, not the country. White straight men dominate, otherwise, why else would there need to be women rights movements -,- And your little americans on the internet are the far from few credible voices. How would you like if someone just said all of UK is based on a random poster on TSR.

I am done here. This has gotten way out of hand and I can't be bothered to argue ...

I learnt about Ancient Egypt in school, everybody was taugh about Egypt, same with Greece.

We live in the UK, why are we going to learn about every other culture?? Do schools in Mozambique teach Japanesse history? Do schools in Colombia teach their student about the history of the Moors in North Africa?

Also, learning and celebrating/displaying pride is different.

Readig the qu'ran, teaching people about Islam isn't celebrating Islam, this is actually a celebration not a textbook and a desk.

that is bothers you that people want to celebrate something? :/