Mouthbreathers too stupid to differentiate rainbows

[Scooter]

Rainbow bridge to memorialise kids’ dead pets vandalised – and everyone’s saying the same thing



A rainbow bridge created by a Girl Scout troop to memorialise pets that have passed away has been vandalised – and people think anti-LGBTQ+ bigots are behind it.

The Biggest Little Rainbow Bridge – located in Crissie Caughlin Park in Reno, Nevada – was created by local Girl Scout Troop 508.

The troop made the wooden bridge as a “beautiful and peaceful place” where people could come to “mourn the loss of our beloved four-legged family members who have crossed the rainbow bridge into the great beyond and reflect on the memories we have made with them”.

The bridge, which was originally a reddish-brown colour, was painted with different coloured stripes that when looked at together create a rainbow to represent the ‘rainbow bridge’ – a concept which refers to the safe, mythical place where pets go when they pass away.

When the bridge was announced by the Parks and Recreation department of the Reno city government on social media, many locals praised the thoughtful initiative put together by the youngsters and said they would visit to remember the special animals in their lives.

Others, rather tongue-in-cheek, noted the rainbow colours would likely offend anti-LGBTQ+ bigots and “infuriate those that can’t comprehend a rainbow is not always an LGBTQ symbol”, which they described as a “two birds, one stone” win.



Not long afterwards, however, the bridge was sadly vandalised, with white paint being poured over the coloured-wood.

“I just want to say congratulations to whoever did this. Congratulations on defacing a bridge made by little girls no older than 12 so that people could say goodbye to their pets,” a local resident said, as quoted by a local Instagram page.

“It breaks my heart,” they added.

[Burning Petard]

More of that binary thinking cited by Datsun in the Empire thread. Alot of that around. On the eleventh of September, 2001, I went out and bought a yellow Gadsden flag. When the tea party political movement used it for their symbol, I have never flown it again. Symbols only work when there is shared agreement on what the symbol means. In the USofA today there are lots of assumptions about what something means, without much actual agreement.

The Reno park department can't afford a little time with a sanding machine, some wood primer? There are no Girl Scout adult supporters willing to buy and apply more color to the bridge? This is so controversial that the people of Reno must not even walk on the bridge?

To quote another American historical figure--Can't we all just get along? Maybe it is not so trivial to dress nicely when traveling in those aluminum tubes with wings.

snailgate.

[Bicycle Bill]

Back in the 1980a and '90s, I used to be a member of a bicycle club called the Rainbow Cyclists, based out of Waterloo/Cedar Falls IA.   It was so-named after a roadway in the area — Rainbow Drive — which seemed to turn up on an inordinate number of the group's casual rides.   Rainbows and rainbow flags were, of course, being used as a symbol for the nascent Gay Rights movement back then, but — just as in the famous apocryphal quote that "sometime a cigar is just a cigar" — most people could accept that sometimes a rainbow was just a rainbow.

'Tis a pity that more people can't or won't seem to do that today.

-"BB"-