My one problem with the pride rainbow

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My problem with it is that I've always hated Rainbow-oriented things. Not rainbows persay, just objects with rainbow colors. The world may never know why I dislike them.

 

I just find the color scheme asthetically unpleasing. I'd prefer a real rainbow, how the colors blend together as opposed to immediately jumping from one to the next.

But according to Wikipedia (I think), that would have been too difficult to make into a flag without a lot of money. So they chose this.

 

I love rainbows and the pride flag. ride:

 

i loved rainbows until the gays stole it!
so I'm taking it back!
oops...i think i may have fallen in the rainbow and some got on me.
*brush brush*
nope, won't come off!
oh well, I'm transgender.
hey, I can like rainbows again!
well, that worked out well.

 

^that was funny

And what's LJN? Little Jack Ninja? I don't recall there being a game called that :S

 

My problem with it is that I'm working all week so I can't go into Toronto to celebrate.

 

Oh hun, least you could go if you didn't work. I just found out Via Rail has a 75% off sale for Canada Day and I could go to Toronto and back to Windsor for only $56 bucks total (normally around $90+). But oh right, my mother loathes the gay pride parade and would never allow me to go, and being that I live with her, despite being 24, she'd barricade the door...

 

I think as I've become more comfortable with my sexuality, the increasingly positive feelings I have about the community have become associated with the rainbows. I didn't really like it at first (I OD'd on Rainbow Brite as a child), but now they make me happy--like, when I see them, it triggers feelings of joy and belonging.

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It would be extremely expensive. Seven colors is already expensive; the intermediate gradations would be exorbitant.

 

This!

I used to hate the damn thing when I first started coming out. I wasn't comfortable with it and I just didn't like it. But then it just sort of grows on you. When you see it it just means so much more than just ugly color or people being flamboyant.

 

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Which is why he wears the plastic rainbow leis to work everyday at Earnst & Young...(they say nothing cuz he seems so happy now.)

 

maybe your mother is not fat enough to sit on a rainbow, and have skittles pop out.

 

I can deal with rainbows aesthetically. On the other hand, the bisexual pink, purple, and blue is so garishly awful that I'm glad I don't see it used very often.

 

I personally prefer the colours of the bi pride flag. If orange was the colour which represented homosexuality, it'd be better though, orange is my favourite colour.

I find the rainbow flag is too 'in your face' as such.

 

I love seeing rainbows, but I think the flag just furthers the stereotype that all gays are flamboyant, oh my GOOOD here they come floatin around, makin alota noise kinda gays.

Heh, no offense to anyone! ^^

But I love rainbows, but the pride flag DOES look kinda gaudy. They shoulda had the colors blend better

 

Like I said (granted, I was paraphrasing Wikipedia), that would have been too expensive. These days, perhaps it could be done cheaply, but the current flag is so recognisable, they're not going to change it.

I do think that blending colors could better represent the more fluid, not-so-easily-categorized nature of human sexuality- though the colors don't represent different orientations, but rather different qualities (That is, hot pink: sexuality, red: life, orange: healing, yellow: sunlight, green: nature, turquoise: magic/art, indigo/blue:serenity/harmony, violet: spirit).

 

didn't Apple Inc. have a rainbow apple logo. it originated from the bitten apple with cyanide from Alan Turing when he committed suicide because he was homosexual.
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, the logo was reinvented as single logo colors and then stayed white. I learned this when I took a graphic design class.

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As a retrogamer, I know what your talking about since I had the bttf nes game made by ljn. most 80s video game and computer companies had rainbow logos to represent video displays having more than 4 bits of color (grey) to their machines mostly 8 bit 256 colors. I never saw companies having much rainbow colors during the Genesis era (my favorite console).

 

When the Apple II came out most microcomputers did not have color capability. Hense the the 6 colors on the apple logo. By the late 90's color on microcomputers was no big deal so no real reason to keep the old logo when trying to show how the company was changing.

As for the bite from the apple refering to Alan Turing. . Here is Steve Job's response when ask if it was true. "God we wish it were. It's just a coincidence"

 

Alan Turing did so much for the world of cryptography and computing, really tragic, ):