Exocrinous

Maybe she got married when she was young and naive and was pressured by her family to settle down with the first half decent man she met. And then by the time she grew up and learned to think about her own needs, she already had kids who needed looking after more than she did.

What a cowardly response. You dismiss all possibility of actually working to make things better, and choose hopes and wishes instead. Your argument is that trying to make things better is bad? How dishonourable.

Then why are there racists why fly the rainbow flag?

If the rainbow had been enough, then we wouldn’t have ended up with racist queers in the community. That’s why the rest of us decided to send a clearer message. Are you interested in sending a clear message?

The social construct of whiteness excludes so-called white people from having “colour” or “brownness”. These are objectively untrue of people with pale skin, because cream is a colour and a shade of brown. But white supremacists and white culture at large deny objective reality, and substitute their own. This is why the term “people of colour” is able to exist. If it weren’t for racists pretending white isn’t a colour, it wouldn’t make sense. In society, white people are privileged by being treated as though they do not have race. The privilege of being white is never having to think about your race if you don’t want to. It’s the default. If you say “a worker” or “a politician” or “a firefighter” or “a woman” or “a gay person”, society teaches people to think of a white person in all of those cases. Being nonwhite is considered a character trait, and being white isn’t. People of colour were often given less depth in older movies, and excluded from being the protagonist, and that’s still happening, because society says whiteness is the default. That whiteness… isn’t a characteristic. Within this social context, a brown line which is objectively the colour of “white skin”, subjectively excludes white people due to their social privilege.

All human skin colours (including “white”) are shades of brown. The flag has a brown stripe for people of colour.

If we didn’t need a brown stripe to represent people of colour, then there wouldn’t be any racism in the queer community. The fact that some queer people are racist is why the rest of us decided to fly a flag with a more explicit message.

Also the black stripe is for victims of the AIDS crisis

White people don’t need to be represented in a flag, because white people are already represented everywhere.

FFS this is some all lives matter bullshit.