If “treated with basic human dignity and respect” is “treated differently from everyone else” in your eyes, that sounds like a you problem.

I swear, somewhere along the line, we all ended up living in Pleasantville.

The fact that merely acknowledging that LGBTQ+ people exist and are worthy of basic human dignity and respect is considered a “political opinion” is exactly the problem.

The lighting, the angle, and the fact that she appears to have just finished working out (and is thus very, very sweaty).

That’s not a mannequin. It’s just a lady showing off her awesome abs.

On the one hand, I agree that corporate exploitation of Pride (like corporate exploitation of most things in general) is pretty gross.

On the other, it’s kinda heartening in a weird way when these companies see LGBTQ+ people the same way they see everyone else. Granted, what they see them as is resources to be exploited and bled dry and then thrown away, but hey, to be honest, that’s an improvement over how they used to see us.

Sure, and it’s fine when a meme flops. But this person was apparently being an asshole about the entire concept of memes.

My wife is into things I’m not into. Sometimes she even drops references to those things into conversations that I don’t get. You know what I don’t do? I don’t say, “So, I’m supposed to memorize all these TV shows in order to have a conversation with you?” That’s being a jerk, and completely unnecessary. I just kinda politely smile and nod, and move on.