"Googlers care deeply about creating a workplace that affords equal treatment for all our staff, and while we do it regardless of any accolades we think our efforts might bring, recognition from outside organizations does mean a lot to us. (...) It's particularly exciting given that this is a time of rapid growth for our population of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees (whose group name is, naturally, Gayglers) around the world," mentioned a blog post from 2007.
{ Image licensed as Creative Commons by Clay Caviness. More photos from the 2007 NYC Pride Parade. }
Just in the spirit of equality, they should introduce a whole lot of other colour bars as well.
ReplyDeleteI also noticed that they don't display any bar when I search for "straight".
Yeah, I'm with gravi_t. Nothing special happens when I search for "privilege." All it does it show some dictionary entries that I don't have the time to comprehend.
ReplyDeleteO dear, Google doesn't display a colored bar when you search for "straight". The internet is full of lovely remarks about being gay and now they also get their own colored bar on Google??? It's so difficult being straight nowadays.
ReplyDeleteAs a gay male I feel all the shitty remarks I have to put up with are suddenly swept away by this colored bar on Google. I pity all you straight guys for not having the "privilege" of a colored bar on Google. I will definitely complain to Google about this serious lack of equality.
The evil Microsoft insiders are corroding Google from the inside! Bingo!
ReplyDeleteUmm, let the gay people enjoy that colored bar... we're just going to enjoy legal, normal, preferable treatment ;)
ReplyDeleteAgain with all the str8 people talking about our privileges... As if we can kiss or hold hands in public without some kind of reaction and you can't.
ReplyDeleteEveryday is str8 pride day. What's your problem?
Um, Anonymous.
ReplyDeleteEveryone here is joking, except maybe gravi_t and you. Lighten up and enjoy the Google fabulousness while it lasts :-) Moreover, enjoy the overreactions from uptight people if they bother to notice.
You really don't want to know what I think........
ReplyDeleteIt's one more privilege given by the gay lobby to themselves.
ReplyDeleteWhat a catch-22 -- the rainbow-flag discriminates against the gay folks. If they want to be a part of ending the discrimination, there has to come a point at which they stop pointing it out.
ReplyDeleteits a little colour bar, get over it. if you dont like it, dont use google. i laugh over the fact that people are getting carried away over a little bar of colours that come up when you search gay... -.-
ReplyDeleteGive us a break! I mean come on for crists sake, I have to sit in a catholic school and pretend to be straight, I think little things like this help tell us who we are, so we shouldn't have to hide from the face of our fabulousness, as it were :D xxx
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ReplyDeleteThis is cool. If I got this right Google is for the gays. That is sooooo cool. love Google, and gays!!!!!
Oh look! Another "Open-Minded" person, persecuting someone who doesn't agree with them, and has their own opinion. How open minded of you, yay! Congratulations! Ding ding ding! You've won the coveted HYPOCRITE award! Treasured by liberal and open minded people the world! Tell them what else they've won Johnny! Well they've won a life of pushing their views and beliefs in others, and the right to call them close minded if said people don't agree with them! That's right Bob, another backward-ass day in BIZZARO LAND! Now, let's hear a word from our hypocrites themselves....
ReplyDeletethats full of awesoness! :)
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