Rainbow laces campaign

[80s Shorts]

I'll do the same, as penance for my sense of humour failure (although it's a bit of an empty gesture on my part as my laces are already black).

The civil rights movements in the sixties, women's lib in the seventies, gay rights in the eighties and nineties were all valid causes.
Battles that needed to be fought and won; and thankfully they were.
But political correctness is the overshoot of these legitimate crusades.
I think one day we'll look back on the absurdities of footballers wearing rainbow coloured laces, and other politically correct nonsense in the same way that we laugh at the Victorians for covering up table legs because it reminded them of sex; it's bollocks.

I,m sorry but that just is not true. These battles are far from won.

 

[Guardiola's Disciple]

I get that there are cynical people out there - I often being one of them - who perceive these 'political slogans' as nothing other than a shallow attempt to act fashionably progressive but I don't understand what issue someone could seriously take with a multicoloured pair of laces.

The publicity that these types of events generates is what makes me skeptical. Thus I remain cynical.

 

[Vic]

....

Respect to City for displaying this.
Manchester has one of the most thriving LGBTQ+ communities, I mean the road next to the Etihad is named after a famed homosexual.

Famed, but not for being a homosexual. Dead at a young age, for being a homosexual. With Justin Fashanu also in mind, isn't that the heart of the issue?

 

[Why Always Ste]

Famed, but not for being a homosexual. Dead at a young age, for being a homosexual. With Justin Fashanu also in mind, isn't that the heart of the issue?

I didn't mean he was actually famous for his sexual preference.
I mean come on, he is such an influential person in computing I thought this would've been obvious.

 

[blue wang]

Either way. I support city homo and away!

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Joey Barton wrote a good blog on the subject.

 

[Leto]

From the Facebook. It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad.

Edward Jimpson McTiernan
You're a football club. I'm so sick of everyone ramming this down our throats. Enough already. We don't hate gays. Homosexuality is a sin. There's no such thing as gay marriage. Natural law is natural law. No matter how many of you think that you can change nature, you can't.

 

[Elbow beards]

From the Facebook. It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad.

It amazes me that these people that preach, love thy neighbour, and peace and love are the most bigoted, self-serving, hate filled pond life the world has the miss fortune on knowing.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Why is it "down our throats?" Are these people literally thinking of a big, butch, gay man shoving his huge hunk of meat down their throats? If so, I think I've found the source of their objection.

 

[stony]

From the Facebook. It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad.

Just looked at his facebook paged and he's a god bothering papist.