Compact⁠77%

Why the Public Soured on Pride ⁠76%

By Julie Bindel⁠0%

7/1/2026, 4:18:07 AM

Keywords: Gay Rights

BS Summary: This article contains 28 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Unattributed Quote, and Hasty Generalization, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 44.7% saturation with 127 hits. Analysis detected 1,169 faulty-reasoning hits from 284 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠76% (5,446 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 75.10% of the article peer group.

New York City Pride, June 2026. 
A sea of men wearing “Call me Daddy” T-shirts, pushing strollers, carrying babies. 
In gay subcultures, a “daddy” describes a dominant, authoritative figure who is often paired with a “twink,” a much younger, slight “boy-like” male as a sexual partner. 
Over in Seattle, fully nude male bicyclists rode past children with their genitalia on full display. 
Pride in Salt Lake City was teeming with men dressed as “slutty” women while others—dressed up in animal costumes—flaunted their “pup fetishes.” 
Minneapolis just lifted its 1988 ban on bathhouses to commemorate the Holy Season of Pride. 
The ban had been put in place in the early 1980s, during the AIDS crisis, to reduce high-risk anonymous sex. 
Is it any wonder that ordinary heterosexual—as well as many lesbian and gay—citizens are getting tired of the so-called queer community? 
The truth is that the once-proud lesbian and gay liberation movement has run its course. 
Across the West, gays and lesbians like myself have achieved legal parity with heterosexuals in one of this century’s most successful campaigns for equality. 
Increasingly, sexual minorities are not only tolerated but objects of civic reverence. 
Across Great Britain and the United States, they are honored in around eighteen calendar days per year calling for awareness, visibility, remembrance, and Pride. 
Many of these focus on the transgender, nonbinary, and asexual. 
Nevertheless, a number of public figures have recently declared that LGBTQ rights are under threat and facing a backlash. 
What they are really talking about, for the most part, are not the hard-won civil rights of gays and lesbians, who now face their biggest threat from within what used to be their movement. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 12.0%Julie Bindel: 8.4%Compact: 8.0%Confirmation Bias12.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.5%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 26.4%Julie Bindel: 11.1%Compact: 3.1%Availability Heuristic26.4%This article: 13.0%Julie Bindel: 4.6%Compact: 1.5%Representativeness Heuristic13.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 1.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 4.4%Compact: 3.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 5.3%Julie Bindel: 8.0%Compact: 5.2%Framing Effect5.3%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 8.5%Julie Bindel: 2.1%Compact: 2.7%Optimism Bias8.5%This article: 11.6%Julie Bindel: 2.5%Compact: 1.7%Pessimism Bias11.6%This article: 44.7%Julie Bindel: 20.4%Compact: 7.2%Negativity Bias44.7%This article: 8.5%Julie Bindel: 4.9%Compact: 0.6%Self-Serving Bias8.5%This article: 12.0%Julie Bindel: 3.0%Compact: 1.5%Fundamental Attribution Error12.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 7.4%Julie Bindel: 12.2%Compact: 2.6%In-Group Bias7.4%This article: 7.7%Julie Bindel: 6.4%Compact: 2.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias7.7%This article: 8.5%Julie Bindel: 1.1%Compact: 1.9%Halo Effect8.5%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 10.9%Julie Bindel: 3.1%Compact: 1.3%Recency Bias10.9%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.8%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 1.0%Compact: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 1.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 6.7%Julie Bindel: 11.6%Compact: 2.1%Straw Man6.7%This article: 8.5%Julie Bindel: 2.5%Compact: 3.6%Appeal to Authority8.5%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 2.8%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 1.7%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.5%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 31.0%Julie Bindel: 26.3%Compact: 13.1%Hasty Generalization31.0%This article: 5.6%Julie Bindel: 0.5%Compact: 0.2%Red Herring5.6%This article: 7.4%Julie Bindel: 2.2%Compact: 0.8%Bandwagon7.4%This article: 15.1%Julie Bindel: 12.4%Compact: 4.8%Appeal to Emotion15.1%This article: 17.3%Julie Bindel: 7.5%Compact: 2.1%Begging the Question17.3%This article: 7.0%Julie Bindel: 1.5%Compact: 4.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)7.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.3%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 1.3%Compact: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.9%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 1.0%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 18.0%Julie Bindel: 8.0%Compact: 2.1%Anecdotal18.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 1.4%Compact: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 22.2%Julie Bindel: 4.3%Compact: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)22.2%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 33.5%Julie Bindel: 4.6%Compact: 1.9%Unattributed Quote33.5%This article: 7.7%Julie Bindel: 2.3%Compact: 1.5%Quote-first Misdirection7.7%This article: 42.6%Julie Bindel: 36.6%Compact: 13.0%Biased Writer Voice42.6%This article: 5.3%Julie Bindel: 5.0%Compact: 2.5%Indoctrination5.3%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 1.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 7.4%Julie Bindel: 6.7%Compact: 5.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias7.4%This article: 0.0%Julie Bindel: 0.0%Compact: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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