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"Hey, hey! Look over here! I got in some more stuff for you to buy! but this time, I'm only taking mochi, because those are so, so tasty..."
The final round's currency is the Pride Mochi Packet! You can use these items to trade in for Event Shop content, or you can save them until after the event and open them into little Mochis (collectibles). Your choice!
This round, you can get a trunk of many different colored wings to celebrate your favorite identity.
There's also a box of sparkles that'll give you lots of sparkly backgrounds for your HA!
There's a lot of great items in the shop this time, so why not go take a peek?
Be sure to check out all the great pets - and some of them have very educational descriptions that you can check out in the Aywapedia.
Were you bummed to only have two Pride Candles? The Pride Candle is hanging out in the USD Shop for $5.00 so you can collect any other Teos you happen to desire. It'll leave the shop on the 1st, so act fast if you want one.
Who's excited for the 30th, the finale of the event? Get ready to open sticker packets and mochi boxes, and some other cool stuff for the final part of Pride Month!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:38pm
- Katje
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Posted on: Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:30pm
But they know hate and have felt it. That was what I was meaning. Of course they don't know what it is like not to be able to kiss or hug their partner in public for fear of being beaten or killed . In that regard you are right and it is horrible.
- Katje
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Posted on: Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:31pm
Chipi 'n' Envy (#2472)
That was for you. Sorry I forgot to tag you when I posted.
- Chipi [TREAT] (off)
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Posted on: Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:38pm
Anja (#56630)
But the event isn't about people who have been hurt. It's about giving visibility and confort to a group who is constantly attacked and dismissed by society. People who don't belong to this group could have suffered another type of attacks or damages? Yes, nobody is arguing that. But that's not the point of this event nor what we have been discussing here.
- Chipi [TREAT] (off)
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Posted on: Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:39pm
Anja (#56630)
(You can tag with @number I just learn that today too ^^)
- Katje
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Posted on: Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:50pm
@#2472
Thank you. I did not know that.
That is why I agreed with you that they didn't know for those reasons. I also agreed with you that it is a Pride Event and should be left as such. English is not my first language so I do apologize if I don't explain myself very clearly. If I was using Dutch I could. I was just trying to say that some know what hate is so they can to a certain degree understand.
- Chipi [TREAT] (off)
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Posted on: Wed Jun 24, 2015 7:09pm
Anja (#56630)
(without #, whops)
It's okay, English isn't my first language either, it's Spanish, so I might have missed something too!
And again, straight people might have been oppresed but not under the same circunstances or as hard. I'm cis+het+white. I have been attacked for being a woman and even a bit bullied for a few years in school, yet I'm part of a very privileged group! I cannot even imagine the grief these people are going through. I'm not here to demand an event for myself or to compare my struggles with theirs. I'm here to support and help however I can, and I think it's unfair that other people complain because they have felt bad too in their lives.
- Rob
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Posted on: Wed Jun 24, 2015 7:17pm
But what everyone seems to be missing here is that I haven't asked to be included in this event. I haven't asked for items, I haven't asked to be recognized as part of the event. All I asked for was to not hear "You don't belong, go away". Yet somehow the responded I keep getting are aimed at how this event isn't about me.. I agree and never disputed that.. I just didn't want to be told that I'm the oppressor and shouldn't be here. Sorry to anyone that has been negatively affected by this conversation. I didn't think it would turn into this. However at this point I'm officially bowing out of this conversation. I was wrong to ask anything and should have just kept quiet.
- Katje
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Posted on: Wed Jun 24, 2015 7:26pm
Chipi 'n' Envy (#2472)
I'm trying to learn Spanish now. I could say I was butchering it but I really am trying. :)
I understand what you are saying and I did say that this is a Pride Event and it should stay that way. I hope I do not get trolled for this but I can't see celebrating something that is considered the "norm". I know that sounds bad and I hope people don't take it wrong. If you go to a real life Pride Event they do not celebrate the "norm" either. It is their event. It's their day.
- Chipi [TREAT] (off)
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Posted on: Wed Jun 24, 2015 7:52pm
Rob (#6546)
I don't see this conversation as negative, I think it exposes some important topics we need to discuss and learn from. I'm not very interested in keeping it alive much longer, since I think everything that needed to be said, has been said already. But I don't like to leave things unanswered either.
I think you missed the point, it was not "leave" it was "give them their space" which doesn't have to be the same as yours. Probably you're taking things too personaly when we talk about cis+het people and not thinking about that whole community.
I'm cis+het, I'm part of the oppressor group, I've done and said harmful things to oppressed people, most of times unaware I was doing that. Now I've grown up and I try to check twice everything I do, I don't think I'm as damaging as most of these people, I try to be supportive to minorities and as helpful as I can be (yet I'm far from perfect!!), but I don't get offended when they speak badly of cis+het people because they're right. And by taking it personally and trying to protect myself I'm denying the problem and reducing it to myself.
We must acknowledge the problem, we have to recognise how we are part of the problem, which comes from listening to people who are suffering it. Then we need to fix the problem starting by ourselves.
Anja (#56630)
Basically because norm doesn't need more acceptance xp
Posted on: Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:19pm
Anja (#56630)
This is not a fight, it's just knowing when something is about you or not. This kind of argument happened here as it could have happened anywhere else, talking about the same issue. Actually, I see people here talking about this topic much calmlier than... Anywhere else. I'm happily surprised about that. Maybe I've just had a lot of bad experiences arguing!
I'm not saying straight people couldn't have been oppressed. Im just saying, they haven't been oppressed because of that. To bring up something you said, straight black people get a lot of oppression/racism. But that's because of their race, not whom they choose to date.