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> I’m LGBT, but I’m not excited to have the flags or graphic-printed t-shirts. I don’t want Pride-branded-graphics stuff.
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> I'm going to be truthful.This whole thing to me is pointless.We already can make gay,and lesbians sims.You can even make your sim transgender if you want too.We already represented .So what's the point of this ?The gender-neutral bathroom is also so dumb. Gender netutrual bathrooms are not lgbt .They just mean both genders can go in to them.I hardly see them around in real life in the midwest.They are usually are at potter poties, or single public bathrooms..Im bisexual its just what I'm attracted too.Its not a big hurraw,and it's nothing to celebrate.
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> While I agree for the most part, I do feel the celebrations themselves (in real life) are important. Having positive affirmations and positive role models would help many of us who still feel bad about ourselves, who are still closeted and surrounded by people and politics who don’t like us for who we are, etc.
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> In the old days, they would kill you for being gay. So we made a lot of progress. But we still have a long, long way to go for homophobia (in some areas, gay people are still being bullied, targeted, beaten up and killed), transphobia (and in real life, trans people are still being targeted, beaten up, and killed), sexism, racism, and ableism.
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> The United States still has a long way to go before everyone can just not care about celebrating ourselves.
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> Now, for the sims games. Well, they’re already pretty equal, so the only reason for Pride objects is to have the graphics of the flag there. It should have been an optional addition, as not everyone wants graphics-items to add to their game and taking up space. I wish this was like the Christmas pack, where it’s optional.
It's not even just "the old days." Pulse was, what, two years ago? Matthew Shephard was in my lifetime. Most of us still have living relatives who were around during Stonewall.
As Faulkner said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
It's fine if some people don't find meaning in Pride events or symbolism-- and certainly like any other holiday it has become commercialized. But to a lot of people, it does still mean something: a chance for a community to come together and feel joy in a world that is still all-too quick to suppress that joy, sometimes violently. Some people find the rainbow symbolism silly or trivial; but for others, it evokes a deep emotional response. To each their own, but there's no need to put down people who do find meaning in it.
