Urgent news from the BBC:
Fire boss says he was abused over Pride image
Seriously? With all the horrors there are in the world, the BBC finds time and space to report on public reactions to a “Pride” image?
A senior fire service official says he was sent “reprehensible and homophobic” messages after he posted a picture of Pride-themed epaulettes.
Simon Tuhill, Northamptonshire’s deputy chief fire officer posted the image on X, formally known as Twitter, last week. He said he was “appalled and shocked” at the overwhelmingly negative messages he received. He said the fire service remains committed to supporting diversity.
Nonsense. It’s not “supporting diversity” to focus on one purported marginalized communinny while ignoring all the others. Where are the feminism-themed fire service epaulettes? Where are the anti-racism-themed fire service epaulettes? Where are the epaulettes for poverty, mental illness, handicaps, immigration status?
Mr Tuhill said: “I’ve been clear that the fire service culture, working as a team and embracing our diversity as an organisation, is really important. Because we’re much better at our job when we properly reflect it, because we understand what the community needs from us.”
No you don’t. You don’t understand any such thing. If you did you would either diversify your epaulettes or skip the whole epaulette-signaling routine entirely.
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10 responses to “Epaulette mockery crime”
In short, it looks like the only demographic worthy of support is white males, at least those that fancy themselves women.
I must be old fashioned then, because I thought that what the community needs from the fire service is people to put out fires and rescue people from life-threatening situations.
They appear to be simple ‘rainbow’ strips added to a regular epaulette. Not the New Improved All-Incloosive flags. If they were an option for gay/lesbian fire-fighters, it wouldn’t be off at all. But…forced teaming doesn’t smell right anymore.
“Oh boo hoo, they said nasty things about my flair.”
Grow the hell up.
iknklast:
Do you really think they don’t support the delusions and pretensions of black males pretending to think they’re women or women pretending to think they’re men? Probably the most gung-ho supporters of the movement are women these days due to demographic shifts amongst the trannies (though rape threats are largely restricted to the males) and whatever the hell the they/thems are.
This idea that it’s all in service of white males is just wokie language and fails to capture the new reality.
Wasn’t there some report not too long ago that found that UK fire services (like much of the UK police) have a culture of sexism and misogyny?
Ditto. Are people going to stop a firefighter in mid rescue to determine the service’s DEI policy before allowing themselves to be carried to safety, or permit the fire in their home from being extinguished? “Sorry, no; I’ll wait for someone with rainbow-embroidery epaulets, thank you very much. Your unadorned insignia make me feel unsafe.”
BKiSA, I somehow doubt that thinking gender ideology is in the service of white males is anything the “woke” could get behind; it is far from “wokie” language.
Yes, there are women involved in the activism; there are always women involved in anti-woman activism. Some of them really do believe they are doing something good for women; others don’t give a damn about women.
Also, yes, there are black males taking women’s roles, prizes, etc. However, most of this seems to be driven by and for a demographic of middle class white males who both find people to take up their cause, and go out on their own and berate, harangue, and threaten women with a breathless misogyny that at one point would harm your progressive cred. The fact that they can get women to do a lot of their dirty work for them just makes them like every other anti-woman movement.
YnNB, yes there was, just as there have been similar reports from the US. Fire services everywhere seem to be filled with pretty toxic attitudes common in male dominated quasi-military structured civilian organisations. Racist, misogynistic, homophobic. Sure, their top brass will occasionally try and pretend otherwise, but the rot runs deep.
To continue on from Rob:
Chief Inspector to Senior Sergeant is a drop of 4 ranks.
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-sa/alleged-reason-for-pasa-deputy-president-wade-burns-demotion-read-in-parliament/news-story/5d24488f6e95e6c0004903626e87ce17
Mr Menno: I don’t feel safe!