The green movement is now taking its aesthetic cues from the gay pride movement, partly because it wants to show solidarity and partly because hippies are too lazy to come up with their own ideas.
According to Green Pride Flag creator Mike Aaron, the different shades of green in the banner represent “ascending levels of dedication to the earth’s protection.” That chartreuse strip thrown haphazardly into the center? Stop asking so many questions!
Joe Moag
“Hippies”? What era are you framing your environmental views in?
rae
chill out man.
i think he was making a funny.
Joe Moag
@rae: Dude…
alex the sea turtle
I hope it’s made out of hemp and hanging on a bamboo stick.
Michael J
@rae: Well it’s a pretty ignorant comment, so it’s a pretty lame funny.
And “co-opt”? As if the rainbow flag is an invention of the gay movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag
seitan-on-a-stick
Didn’t we steal the Rainbow Flag from the Hippies (updated to Progressives) and mark it up 3000% and cavorted like we got all our rights and life was one big party. Oh no, I forget it’t those “stinking, dirty hippies” who are to blame, the same ones who helped elect Harvey Milk.
Japhy Grant is the “Gay Ann Coulter”
Personally, I love the idea. Don’t let your Dogma run over my Karma!
Andy
last time i checked, the gays didn’t invent the rainbow. we made it fabulous (or something), but it was around long before us.
Trenton
I think you’re all missing the point: A flag for the green movement is just an incredibly inane, idiotic concept. So to everyone who bothers labeling themselves as “Green”:
If you want to show solidarity with us (and I doubt it), then you can start sodomizing yourselves with a flag pole. If you want to advertise your half-assed commitment to environmental soundness, then start a compost heap in your front yard. Or will that disrupt the aesthetic in a way that your fugly, meaningless flag des not?
Methinks the only “green” that this flag designer gives a real damn about is the kind that doesn’t grow on trees.
Forrest
I am all about rainbow flags here. Have a rainbow flag on my porch. Along with stickers on my car extolling gay rights and environmental concerns. I think the green flag is great. Whatever we call today’s version of hippies, and I fall into both camps… they are the last group of people to disparage. We share so many of the same goals and ideals in terms of respect for human rights.
CommentDouble
@seitan-on-a-stick
lmfao
In the Fine Arts Library
No, the hippie thing is old now. It was old when they started using it for people who cared about living ecologically minded…
FuelMix
Looks like something out of a psychotropic Pez Dispenser.
Mikey
I think it’s great.
greybat
@Andy: Yes. The original Gay banner included the colors black, hot pink, brown and teal, but they were edited out to create the more (main)stream-lined version used today.