I really don’t like the design of the progress pride flag, and I couldn’t really put my finger on it until I saw this: https://nava.org/good-flag-bad-flag

For reference, here is the flag I’m referencing as “bad flag”:

And here is the original:

So, the original has too many colors, but it’s the colors of the rainbow. In order. It’s recognizable from really far away, and it’s dead simple to draw.

With the Intersex flag, that’s 14 colors. There are three shades of “purple”. The circle won’t be visible from far away. The chevrons are too thin to be very recognizable from far away.

It’s not like there aren’t good pride flags. Like there are AMAZING ones:

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In case you don’t know what these are: https://flagsforgood.com/collections/pride-flags

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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    478 hours ago

    I think it’s basically just “feature creep.” Too many ideas trying to be crammed into one symbol. And what’s annoying, to me, is that the rainbow by itself was already supposed to represent everyone. That’s why it is a rainbow.

    • @mienshao@lemm.ee
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      14 hours ago

      Why is this upvoted so much? Do you know anything about the Pride flag? Each color represented a particular concept (e.g., sex, sunlight, nature). The colors mean something and weren’t just a catch-all concept to “represent everyone.” Like you’re just saying shit lol. The fact that I see this dumbass discourse EVERY YEAR tells me that maybe it’s not just aesthetics that folks are complaining about, I think some people are bitches and don’t wanna make room. The Progress Pride flag is great and makes clear that it really is for everyone, not just gay men. Get over yourself fr.

      • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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        Hot pink - Sex
        Red - Life
        Orange - Healing
        Yellow - Sunlight
        Green - Nature
        Turquoise - Magic/Art
        Indigo - Serenity
        Violet - Spirit

        I’m seeing on Wikipedia that the original colors represented stuff like sunlight and life. Who was excluded by these categories?