Because gay marriage thing. People who are a majority are suddenly feeling left out because they don't see it as raising the bar to equal levels, they see it as LGBT people getting special treatment/all the attention. They simply don't understand that there is absolutely no fight for any kind of equality for white cisgender heterosexuals, being that they're right at the top of the sociosexual pyramid. They have absolutely no struggle of any mentionable kind in terms of sexuality and identity. But, y'know, they don't often think that far.
Because in first world countries, LGBT people have been the target of abuse, violence and degradation since the inception of widespread religion sometime around 1100. Literally centuries, and we still have a while to go. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that certain people are retaliating with (mostly harmless) slogans against the general demographics mostly responsible for upholding laws, views and actions that effect us daily. What do you expect? To be quite frank, I'm more surprised that hashtags are the furthest in retaliation these people have gone.
They know it pisses those people off, that's why they do it. The point is to highlight to ignorant people a fraction of the kind of suffering that LGBT people go though, albeit extremely bluntly, and it's still too much for those on top of the social pile. There's only so far you can pressure groups of people before they start pushing back. To be quite honest, I don't blame them in the slightest. Sure it and similar might be classed as "hate speech", but I would view it more as "retaliatory hate speech". Either way, there's really only so long some of us can go before saying "fuck the way I'm being treated and fuck you", since niceties and respect to those standing over us don't often seem to buy us respect back.
Or, of course, most of it is from Tumblr teenage girls who are obsessed with the "in" sexualities and pronouns and still haven't grown out of their "ewww, boys" phase. This is why I say that the internet should be 18+ unless supervised by a responsible adult.
I've never understood why people are proud to be a certain nationality. Like, what pride is there to be had in scoring a point on the roulette wheel that is geographical birth location? It's entirely down to luck. You happened to come out on one piece of land instead of all the other similar pieces of land on this godforsaken space rock. Why is that viewed as a worthy accomplishment that ought to be broadcast?
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