Obviously it is the designers doing Emojis who should be coding the cookie handling, not the ones doing band designs. /s
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Apple Unveils 2024 Pride Edition Braided Solo Loop Band and Watch Face
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Wow, you‘ve managed to be condescending towards me and also other LGBTQ communities, well done. I suggest you touch grass yourself. You were wrong, I proved it, and you still make baseless claims like 95% of the community only wave one flag which is disingenuous.
Life is tough. The world is infinitely better with us showing kindness, respect and decency to each other.
At the end of the day we are all human and all share the same planet. It takes all sorts to build a world.
Or as my mother says it if you can’t say anything nice then don’t say anything at all.
At the end of the day we are all human and all share the same planet. It takes all sorts to build a world.
Or as my mother says it if you can’t say anything nice then don’t say anything at all.
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It's not that deep.
It's just good design to keep things simple. You can't do what's essentially six "primary" colors and then also have colors like brown and black and pink.
It's a rainbow, not skin colors or some printer test.
And as inclusive as anyone's intentions might have been, you can't feasibly keep adding colors and symbols to a flag or really any design.
There are limits to how many ideas you can effectively portray in a single image, like a flag.
The six colored rainbow is easy to recognize and is readable at nearly any distance. The versions with some 10+ colors that combines triangles and horizontal lines is too much information and too many colors at once.
Saying everything at once is just bad communication.
Luckily this article is in the Political News Forum, so only mature, sensible people can react.
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I admit I have no idea what it means, but I think the flag with the triangle made from some extra couple stripes looks way cooler than a standard rainbow flag. I think the muted colors contrast perfectly. So agree to disagree on “too much information and too many colors”.
Honestly as a gay man myself, I'm getting tired of this.
I'm fairly sure Apple sells a plain, white band.
How does a plan, white band specifically identify as a straight band?
I've never been a fan of the textile versions. I would bet the stretch dies after a while and the band is useless. I've been sticking with the sport loops of various colors with the pin and tuck.
The watch face itself is kind of neat, I don't think I've seen a metallic one like that before except for the liquid metal watch faces.
Happy Pride Season!
The watch face itself is kind of neat, I don't think I've seen a metallic one like that before except for the liquid metal watch faces.
Happy Pride Season!
I fear you and everyone who liked your post completely misunderstood what I said =\
but we love missing the point around here 😍
Congratulations on completely missing the point of Pride, misframing what Apple is doing here and reducing LGBTQ to something that happens in the bedroom.
I have no idea how anyone is downvoting your comment. Probably the most correct thing I've ever seen on these forums
Yes. It must be exhausting to be confronted with the human rights movement that fought to allow you to be who you are.
More exhausting than the millions of gay men living in countries where it’s not accepted or even illegal to be who they are.
Aaah, but it’s just a wristband you say. No it’s not.
Wearing a wristband will not help those who are persecuted for their sexuality in majority of the world. Nobody complains about wristband, what is exhausting for some gay people is that our movement has been highjacked by people who are now alienating the majority - the heterosexual people, by many questionable practices. We (the gays) JUST got the rights on equal grounds at least in the West, everything is good now, but some associations and activists need to continue to find something to "fight" for to get more funding, possibly... ESPECIALLY if the corporate giants are ready to throw cash at them.
As for you trying to preach about gay men and (if I may add) gay women in other parts of the world, I suggest you perhaps think before you write as the person you are addressing may be coming from a background of being persecuted for his or her sexuality in the past in those parts of the world.
So no, this is just a wristband when it comes from Apple or anyone else. You want to help gay people? Wearing an Apple Watch with a rainbow, or by now it is no longer even a rainbow, won't help any LGBT people in any way. Do better.
Thanks to these additions, HIV is now eradicated.
Yes, I've heard that those bad bad bad people that abuse these poor people have changed their mind since the announcement of these magic bands and the problem is solved. Thank you Tim Apple!
Yet you're all about pushing through wide-open doors here, in Western liberal democracies. Do you think Apple, Disney and co push these products and ad campaigns in the parts of the world, that actually suppress the "rainbow-people"? The answer is no. Disney even removes or shrink black characters from their movie posters in China and similar countries, to sell more movie tickets. There's a word for this: hypocrisy.
THIS is why people are rolling their eyes over this stuff. We have an entire pride month, pretty much every TV-show or movie have one or more LGBTQ-characters, pride flags are all over the place, it's in the commercials, it's prominent in social media - it's everywhere. But it will never be "good enough" for the LGBTQ-activists, will it?
Some straight people should get back to school. It's so embarrassing to read the heck they are writing.
The problem is some straight people also don’t want anything LGBTQ+ related to be taught in schools, so the cycle of ignorance will continue.