Stop using app icons for political activism

Re:Stop using app icons for political activism by gumby on Monday June 20, 2022 @10:43PM (#31819213)

> The most charitable interpretation is that it's a protest against heteronormativity

Protest? Come on. The most charitable interpretation is that the person making such a statement merely think non hetero people deserve the same rights as anyone else. Which is quite different from taking a position against something.

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Re:Stop using app icons for political activism by cato_the_elder on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:06PM (#31819380)

Not really, from Wikipedia [1]:

> Heteronormativity is the concept that heterosexuality is the preferred or normal mode of sexual orientation. It assumes the gender binary (i.e., that there are only two distinct, opposite genders) and that sexual and marital relations are most fitting between people of opposite sex.

The idea of promoting a "gender binary" and treating the exceptions as abnormalities is quite diagonal to displaying a Rainbow flag. So is believing that heterosexuality is "normal" in some sense.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heteronormativity...

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Re:Stop using app icons for political activism by drewbug01 on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:22PM (#31819492)

You’ve equated the idea that “heterosexuality is normal” with “non-heterosexuality is abnormal.” That is only true in the strictest of semantic senses.

There is a very negative connotation to “abnormal,” is that what you meant to imply?

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