June is here and it is Pride Month. A month where we are expected to "celebrate" gay folks just for being who they are. What about the rest of us? No month for us.

Anyway, I looked at my Linkedin profile and saw that a couple of my former employers have magically gone rainbow. Not all, the numbers are lower this year.

Why do companies feel the need to announce to the world their support for gays?



On the other hand this is reducing this year. What happened, CEOs? You don't love gays no more? After Trump leaves, will you be back to your old tricks?

What Happened to All the Corporate Pride Logos?
https://www.newsweek.com/corporate-pride-lgbtq-trump-backlash-2080429

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Why do companies feel the need to announce to the world their support for gays?

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Keeps the mob at bay for another year.

Also, the marketing and PR departments are usually run by a bunch of millennials who think the entire world is like the bubble they live in, where everyone is 20 steps to the left of Marx.

That's gay

What gets me are the straight people on Facebook virtue signaling pride month. A number of my facebook friends have updated profile and cover pics to embrace the rainbow and have posted 'Happy Pride" crap.

You're straight...pride month isn't about you. This is a straight up pathetic virtue-signaling and nothing more.

I'm just here for the page Juan.

Follow the money. They don't get anything out of the gay logo crap. It doesn't sell, and right now times are lean. They will bring back the pandering in the future when times are good and they have money to burn on virtue signals and liberal feel-goods.

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Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy for making pee pee/poo poo in the right place? You are, yes you are.

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What gets me are the straight people on Facebook virtue signaling pride month. A number of my facebook friends have updated profile and cover pics to embrace the rainbow and have posted 'Happy Pride" crap.

You're straight. This is a straight up pathetic virtue-signaling and nothing more.

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I think most all of this supporting these different causes (whatever is the current thing) is simple:

1. The world can now see how you "feel" with social media. Points are instant.
2. Everyone wants to get their participation ribbon, where this BS truly started.
3. They don't want whoever is the thing's militant wing to come after their ass every which way - violently, financially, politically, etc.
4. Votes, in the case of pols.
5. ETA as listed in an above post - money.

Re-write Tom Petty's 'Jammin Me' to take back all the virtue signals, awareness, ribbons, etc. Caring fatigue.

Ridiculous that companies feel the need to advocate for selected lifestyle choices / groups. Especially groups that have have Federal protection.

I don't see them promoting others beliefs and preferences in this same manner.

Time for corporate America to stop responding to blackmail attempts and just treat everyone with respect. Which is pretty much where society is today. Such weakness in corporate leadership.

Gays have a pretty high purchasing power. This is just good business. Let the free market be free.

Tomorrow is Eid. I wonder if they will go go green just to show how much they love Muslims?

I bet UK cos are going to do that

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Gays have a pretty high purchasing power. This is just good business. Let the free market be free.

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Nobody is proposing govt force them to not be stupid morons.

And I doubt that the 2% have more purchasing power than the 98%.

Not another gay thread. There are 2 of them already.

Gay

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Gays have a pretty high purchasing power. This is just good business. Let the free market be free.

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No. Companies that put gays on the pedestal risk pissing other people off. The super conservatives for example. I personally ignore and don't care, it is annoying but I don't decide purchases based on that. I don't hate gays, I don't love them either, they are just people to me. But many don't think so, they hate gays.

Cos are just virtue signaling because they think they can look "modern" and "progressive" and not "old fashioned". And simple reason is the CEO is a moron.

I absolutely think gays and everyone else must be treated fairly and equally. But someone being gay or not, I don't GAF.

I think most people don't GAF. I also think most people are tired of having deviant behavior shoved at us from every direction.

A lot of the corporate stuff was likely born out of the ESG scores they were getting from the gov't and big entities like BlackRock for going DEI, environmentally conscious, etc.

If you are in a business where your customer base includes only gays or unabashed leftists, have at it but for most corporations, its stupid to take a position on social topics that are divisive.

Fine, I want this logo plastered everywhere in July:

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That's gay

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And queer.

being gay is not normal, not sure why these companies want to normalize it.

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Gays have a pretty high purchasing power. This is just good business. Let the free market be free.

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Is there some alphabet people "clearing house" keeping track of who bends the knee to them? Is there any data showing that non-knee benders lose business?

How many multi-page threads will it take for these people to understand WE DONT CARE

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Why do companies feel the need to announce to the world their support for gays?

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Keeps the mob at bay for another year.

Also, the marketing and PR departments are usually run by a bunch of millennials single women who think the entire world is like the bubble they live in, where everyone is 20 steps to the left of Marx.

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These depts are headed by GenXers reporting to Boomers. The millennials are middle management right now. The majority of these departments are winey women who may rule the roost, but don't yet have the final decisioning authority. Where they may, it's being abdicated by X & Boomer executives.

No change for 2025 here!

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I think most people don't GAF. I also think most people are tired of having deviant behavior shoved at us from every direction.

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10 years ago, I was at a company and there was an obviously gay guy. Very exaggerated gay body language. That is okay. But I overheard him telling the head of our office that for gay pride month he wanted to "deck the office up in pride colors". Bro, I thought wtf man? Be gay in your own time. This is America, no one GAF. But don't shove your crap down everyone's throats. Before he got to it, everyone got laid off.

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Why do companies feel the need to announce to the world their support for gays?

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Keeps the mob at bay for another year.

Also, the marketing and PR departments are usually run by a bunch of millennials single women who think the entire world is like the bubble they live in, where everyone is 20 steps to the left of Marx.

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These depts are headed by GenXers reporting to Boomers. The millennials are middle management right now. The majority of these departments are winey women who may rule the roost, but don't yet have the final decisioning authority. Where they may, it's being abdicated by X & Boomer executives.

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It's also HR departments that are doing this. HR is run by women and gays.

There is your problem.

Solution: ban HR departments everywhere

'HR' departments have morphed over the last 3 decades from just a personnel records department to a nanny-state empire run by folks who can't really do anything of worth to the company. They create paperwork requirements up and down the chain so that their in/out boxes never get empty, i.e., justifying their existence.

Above poster is 110% correct. America needs to get rid of the HR mentality and let the folks running companies run them as they see fit. It's their money. They either win or lose and it's on them. People vote with their feet and if a company is too out of line they can always leave for another job at another place/location.

The next round of MAGA - the movement that follows on after Trump - should/will take on the HR mentality across America and cut it way down to a size commiserate with the true personnel mission it was back before things got crazy.

If a company truly believed in supporting homosexuality then they would do so in their middle East division as well. Not just in NA and Europe.

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They are rapidly being replaced by AI and India call centers. Two institutions that don't really care about feelings.

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Gays have a pretty high purchasing power. This is just good business. Let the free market be free.

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Non gays have even more.

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being gay is not normal, not sure why these companies want to normalize it.

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because the fascists demand it

Cougar11 said:

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being gay is not normal, not sure why these companies want to normalize it.

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You think that is all just "in their head?" It may not be the majority, but I think people are born with their brains hardwired to be sexually attracted to the same sex.

Same thing with weirdos who like feet. What the hell is sexually attractive about a foot?

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Cougar11 said:

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being gay is not normal, not sure why these companies want to normalize it.

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You think that is all just "in their head?" It may not be the majority, but I think people are born with their brains hardwired to be sexually attracted to the same sex.

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That does not make it normal, now does it?