Pride parades exposed a lot of unusual behaviors, laying them naked before the world. Among the many balls in the air, so to speak, were lots of balls in the air, breathing free and enjoying the sunshine at “family-friendly” Pride parades.

This along with Queer people chanting “We are coming for your children.” Yes, they went with that.

“We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.”

Yeah, we know. pic.twitter.com/9Tfku0uGha

— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) June 24, 2023

There’s been a lot of talk about this particular outrage–or rather admission on the part of the alphabet community–and of course, it reminds me of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Choir’s song “We are Coming for Your Children.” The guy, by the way, has a lovely voice.

And the Boston Gay Men’s Choir singing “Your Children are Not Your Children.”

Yes, we are grooming, and you better like it.

None of these is the focus of my rant today, but rather the rather odd response to a video of a bunch of nudists in New York City riding around in public (and others playing in a public fountain) in front of children.

Now unlike some, I don’t really fear that children will be permanently scarred by seeing a bunch of mostly men riding on bikes in public, at least not compared to the damage done to them by parents who feel the need to expose their children to everything happening at a Pride parade, including the open display of sexual fetishes.

Sure, the people who are determined to be naked in public are often creepy with weird sexual fetishes, but public nudity is rather mild compared to S&M fetishists practicing their craft in public, which happens as well.

No, what is striking to me is the rather odd reaction on Twitter by Left-wingers justifying the displays, which essentially amounts to “We may as well let our freak flags fly because conservatives hate us anyway.”

It simply doesn’t occur to them that conservatives don’t like them BECAUSE they let their freak flags fly in public, and if they respected the same social norms as the rest of us there wouldn’t be much of a problem to begin with.

Think about that take for a moment. If “the Right uses this stuff to win elections,” could it be that enough people think that indecent exposure, which in most venues is against the law, is not something to be celebrated?

Flashers, for instance, get prosecuted, and most Leftists would be appalled if a bunch of men exposed themselves to women for the sexual thrill. Most normal people would, because we don’t encourage people generally to impose their sexual fetishes on others, because it is violative of their own sexual desires.

We exclude such behavior from polite society for a reason.

Even if there were no naked guys on bikes this year, they would find picture or generate them and push the same agenda anyway. There’s no “fixing” this by calling for self-censoring.

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 25, 2023

Takei’s take, too, is fascinating. It amounts to “People don’t approve of us because we are sexual deviants anyway, so let’s be sexual deviants in public.” There is, by the way, no evidence that people are inventing incidents (which happens all the time on the Left, with hate hoaxes popping up every day it seems), perhaps because conservatives don’t have to. Alphabet people displaying and bragging about their fetishes is as normal as a day ending in -day.

We arrived at an entirely predictable destination https://t.co/64jJuvfAMT

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) June 26, 2023

Conservatives have been warning about the normalization of every sexual fetish in public for a long time, and we are always scoffed at as alarmists and prudes.

We are certainly not being alarmist–everything IS being sexualized, and the alphabet people keep telling us that everything is about sex, and the claims that children are inherently sexual beings since at least the time of Alfred Kinsey (a hero to many) documented the orgasms of babies based upon the experience of pedophiles (yes, he used pedophiles’ experience with babies and children in his research on sexual behavior in children).

As for prudes–a certain amount of prudishness is actually a good thing in society, although you can take it too far. This is because societies don’t work when people shove their own idiosyncracies in each others’ faces. Respect for others, not the constant celebration of one’s uniqueness, is a necessary grease that makes society’s wheels turn.

The Left isn’t embracing the mores of conservatives, yet they expect us to celebrate theirs. This isn’t asking for tolerance, but submission. And people don’t like to and shouldn’t have to submit to others, especially in matters that should be private.

The argument that we shouldn’t police what happens in people’s bedrooms is, in fact, a reasonable demand. The demand that we allow people to take their behavior out into the public is not just ridiculous, but a power play.

It is, in fact, just as oppressive as policing bedroom activity. We all have a right to our moral beliefs and to raise our children in a safe environment. That means respecting each other.

Parading around naked is not a sign of respect, or even a demand for respect. It is a demand that others submit to your whims. Wearing clothes is not an imposition, and not whipping your “partner” in public is hardly an onerous demand.

It is now a mainstream position of the Left that others must submit to their mores. They deserve every bit of pushback and scorn they have invited.