The rainbow itself is to groom children. Kids are interested in shiny colorful things.
Who uses a crosswalk? Children. An adult jaywalks or even in a city doesn't even think about it at all, whereas a child is terrified of getting run over and hyper focused on the crosswalk. So the rainbow flag crosswalk is associated with protection - that's where you're "safe" to cross or "transition" to the other side.
Laughs in Sweden They don't jaywalk there... It was weirdly noticeable, while I was living there, but it is hugely frowned upon...
Not sure if our resident Swedes want to chime in on whether this is only a city thing, or if there's more to it, but from what I've read, I'm not the first foreigner to pick up on that, lol...
But I mean, it's not really terribly surprising, given their whole national "psyche" (following orders, conforming, etc.), tbh...
The rainbow itself is to groom children. Kids are interested in shiny colorful things.
Who uses a crosswalk? Children. An adult jaywalks or even in a city doesn't even think about it at all, whereas a child is terrified of getting run over and hyper focused on the crosswalk. So the rainbow flag crosswalk is associated with protection - that's where you're "safe" to cross or "transition" to the other side.
Absolutely about grooming kids.
Laughs in Sweden They don't jaywalk there... It was weirdly noticeable, while I was living there, but it is hugely frowned upon...
Not sure if our resident Swedes want to chime in on whether this is only a city thing, or if there's more to it, but from what I've read, I'm not the first foreigner to pick up on that, lol...
But I mean, it's not really terribly surprising, given their whole national "psyche" (following orders, conforming, etc.), tbh...