Bus transformed
More inclusive inclusiony huggy kissy embracey inclusion (but not for you though):
Kinetic has made its commitment to diversity and inclusion spectacularly clear with one of its iconic SkyBus red double decker buses transformed with a rainbow-coloured design.
Ooooooh has it??? It painted a bus in colors??????? That’s the most diverse and inclusiony thing I’ve ever heard of!! I can hardly breathe from the diversity and inclusion.
The ‘Pride Bus’ will adorn freeways and arterial roads connecting SkyBus passengers between the city centre and Melbourne’s two major airports at Tullamarine and Avalon.
It will adorn them? So it won’t go to and fro carrying passengers in the usual way of buses, but instead it will adorn freeways and arterial roads? Like bunting and banners and stuff?
Kinetic says the initiative serves as both a welcome to visitors landing in Victoria and a permanent reminder to the broader community that everyone should feel safe, respected and welcomed in Melbourne.
Why should everyone feel that? I mean, sure, you don’t want people feeling unsafe or insulted, but does that mean you need to paint buses in order to make people feel actively respected? And even if it does, how will that work? If I saw that bus it wouldn’t make me feel respected, and the odds are slim that I would see it because it’s just the one bus.
In other words what a load of meaningless PR drivel. Painting a commercial bus doesn’t make anyone feel anything.
Also look at the stupid bus.
Come on. “You are loved.” What, because the words appear on a bus? Give me a break.
And when has anyone ever done this kind of thing to send a friendly message to women? Never. Not ever. Women are just a nuisance.
Mike Lewis, Inclusion and Equity Manager at Kinetic, said the initiative was a very visible celebration and recognition of LGBTIQ+ communities.
“We wanted to unveil the design in the lead up to IDAHOBIT (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia) and beyond, demonstrating our support for LGBTQI+ communities every day of the year,” he said.
Hey, Mike, is there a comparable day for women? Mike? Mike? Where’d you go?
The vehicle features the Progress Pride Flag with an emphasis on inclusion and progression, with the words “You are Loved” in bold font on either side.
Where’s the emphasis on inclusion and progression? I’m not seeing it. Is it the wavy bit in the rainbow? Does that stand for inclusion and progression? To me it just looks like a wavy bit.
I wonder what Mike does with the rest of his time. It can’t take all that much time to get a bus decorated and tell the press about it.
You will be included, whether you want to be or not. Christianity has attempted to compel inclusion for almost 2,000 years, and Islam for nearly 1,400 years.
I would be fine if nobody tried to love me on a bus.
But maybe that’s just me.
“Nobody tried to love me on a bus” sounds like a UK indie song by Pulp or Camera Obscura.
Also, there’s already at least *five* days devoted specifically to celebrating trans folx.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBT_awareness_periods
Was the bus line rejecting trans people until this campaign? That would indeed make for a large and welcome change. Or a change at all. This is just a new lick of paint.
My local grocery store has Progress Pride flag stickers proclaiming “Everyone is welcome.” Good to know. Had they been turning people away before this? But I’m sure they don’t really mean everyone. I’m sure they’d rather not have shoplifters, arsonists, rapists and murderers plying their trade inside. No, I think this is another empty gesture intended to show appeasement and compliance.
Yes, it’s another coercive statement of faith. Not only is the store “inclusive,” but I’m expected to be “inclusive” too. Any time I see them I want to razor off the “trans” part of the flag, as it’s fundamentally at odds with the LGB part.
No, thank you, I’d rather you don’t Kiss me on this bus
Reminds me of the yellow-and-blue “supporting Ukraine” buses we have here. I always wonder how anyone in a war zone benefits from some Welsh double-decker buses getting a paint job.
Our city just got an ‘inclusive’ playground. I wonder what that will look like. No, I don’t think I want to know.