No matter how much I hate corporate pride, I cannot find a fiber of my being that hates this
Unpopular opinion, I know, but I fucking love corporate pride.
Do you remember being gay a decade ago? Corporations were just starting to touch us with a ten foot pole. And it felt amazing to be acknowledged as existing, without any negative connotations.
Two decades ago? No one would touch us, unless we were the butt of a joke. That we’d hear a million times everyday.
I see corporate pride as a sign of change: sure, those billionaires are just trying to get more money out of us. They couldn’t give a shit about you, or me, personally. But they’re now willing to openly market to us.
That means public opinion is changing. Support for the queer community is growing. We’ve even become a market to be advertised to.
No, those rainbow ads don’t mean anything more than the green and red ones in December, or the red hearts in February. But the fact that corporations are openly showing support, without fear of death threats, or “more importantly” losing money, means something to me.
The fact that right-wing assholes throw a fit about it and they still choose to pander shows how far public opinion has come. It doesn’t mean they care, but it does mean they recognize that the vast majority care.
Don’t give them too much credit, they only did it because they saw the demographics shifting and possible profits. It will always come down to money. If the GOP takes power and turns full authoritarian and tells them they can’t outwardly show support, see how quick they shut their mouths.
I don’t think anyone’s giving corpos credit, just acknowledging that public opinion has swayed to the point that corpos show pride because it’s profitable for them to do so.
This would be a public works job. No corpos involved.
You live in a country where public utilities aren’t privately owned? Lucky.
public utilities aren’t privately owned
What a weird sentence.
The soulless structure of the government is not much different than the soulless structure of a corporation.
Also, there is no indication that this isn’t a private consulting firm, for example.
The soulless structure of the government is not much different than the soulless structure of a corporation.
Very different for a fundamental reason: at least in the US, one exists to serve the people, the other to extract the maximum amount of profit possible from the people. But to your point, they have similarities in that they are both entirely constructed of flawed humans. That difference in purpose though, makes a huge impact on we interact with them, what we expect of them, and our ability to influence them.
Alex Jones was right 🤯
They’re turning my gay frogs straight! It’s unacceptable!
My god he’s even doing finger guns 🤩
Working in this industry I would wear this shirt so hard lol
