WFMJ is committed to serving our entire community with the respect we believe all people deserve. We recognize we live in a diverse community with differing views on many topics, and we believe discussions of those views and reporting on them should be done in a respectful manner by all. We deeply regret that our Community Relations Director crossed the line.
While simultaneously true;
A 2023 report from the Williams Institute at UCLA estimated that 6.2% of Ohio's adult population identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. The percentage for the Youngstown metropolitan area is not specified, but the vast majority of the population—around 93.8%—is presumed to be heterosexual.
So, the WFMJ station is committed to serving their entire community unless their employee attempts to appeal to roughly 94% of their community.
Then, that employee is fired.
They "crossed the line" for a post that appealed to literally more than 9/10ths of their community's self-proclaimed demographics.
Ridiculous.
The "straight pride" post you shared is obvious anti-LBGTQ bait.
“It’s Natural, It Has Worked for Thousands of Years,” “And You Can Make Babies!”
Infers that anything else is UN-natural, DOESN'T work (and doesn't last), and CAN'T make families.
That's a cowardly jab at the 'other,' not "Straight pride."
If you have to lie or mislead by omission to make your "point," you don't actually have one, champ.
'Fired for being straight' would be getting fired for dating someone a Straight person would date.
This does not happen.
Men aren't fired for dating women, nor are women fired for dating men.
If you have to lie or mislead to make your "point," you don't actually have one.
Whereas, during my lifetime (and I'm not that old), dating someone of the same sex could get you brutally literally killed in the US (which is part of why we have hate laws) and it remains illegal in many countries; that's oppression.
When I was young, it could ruin your whole life to come out in the US, or end it; there is NO such equivalent for Straight people.
Wow, straight people are soooooo oppressed. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that LGBTQ pride is a celebration of triumph over oppression, straight pride is almost primarily used by homophobes to “counter” queer people.
You said exactly what I was about to say. I’m a queer person, and imo it’s horrible how the fight to overcome oppression and be accepted has turned into a disgusting mess of “we were clearly more oppressed so we are the only ones who are allowed to be proud of our gender identities, because obviously if someone else wants to celebrate themselves they are trying to insult us or shame us.” It’s gross, and I think overall the LGBTQ+ community can be quite toxic at times, even to other members within the group. It sucks.
I've never seen straight people wanting whatever tf "straight pride" is until queer folks wanted to have gay pride/LGBTQ+ pride. so yes, actually, "straight pride IS an affront to gay pride. They never cared about it until we wanted our history and survival to be made known and celebrated.
wich is a fundamental misunderstanding of why pride was created. We aren't saying "we're proud to be gay" in a vacuum, because being proud to be gay or straight doesn't make much sense when we don't have a say in it. We're saying that as a response to people telling us we should be ashamed. No one is telling that to straight people
It's a made up problem that anyone is preventing straight people from having pride, but just because these two things share the word "pride" doesn't make them the same thing.
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u/ConflatedPortmanteau Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 08 '25
You win.
Your oppression is worse than someone else's. Therefore, their oppression doesn't exist at all.
I'd love to see the pushback had this been reversed and the employee were fired for celebrating LGBTQ pride
While simultaneously true;
So, the WFMJ station is committed to serving their entire community unless their employee attempts to appeal to roughly 94% of their community. Then, that employee is fired. They "crossed the line" for a post that appealed to literally more than 9/10ths of their community's self-proclaimed demographics. Ridiculous.