• captcha [any]
      ·
      1 year ago

      I'm almost certain thats pure polyester and will melt if you iron it.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        ·
        1 year ago

        I believe you can put a damp towel over it to mitigate and disperse the heat.

      • glans [it/its]
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        I have a shower curtain that is made of material like I assume this is and I have never been able to get the creases out since I have it about 5 years. I didn't try ironing it because I am also certain it would melt no matter how careful I was.

        I have tried washing it in hot/cold water, tumble drying, hanging dry etc. And it spends 100% of life hanging in a poorly ventilated bathroom. So 100s of steamings.

        OTOH I can recommend, if you would benefit from a large world map in your home but don't have a whole wall to spare, shower curtain world map comes in very handy.

      • Bassword
        ·
        1 year ago

        Polyester flags in general should be banned. Absolutely disgusting fabric.

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
      ·
      1 year ago

      I just heat up a frying pan. I had an iron, but lost it in the move, so frying pan it is.

    • sweatersocialist [comrade/them]
      ·
      1 year ago

      a true proletarian irons their flag with their forehead using the heat their brain emits from their skull after reading theory (listening to podcasts) and educating their fellow workers (bullying r/politics liberals on reddit from an hour old account as their main one is currently banned) on matters pertaining to class struggle

      of course bernie sanders doesnt iron his flag. he's never even been on reddit.

  • NuraShiny [any]
    ·
    1 year ago

    Anyone preoccupied with flags is weird to me.

  • fuzzy
    ·
    1 year ago

    [imagine a picture of a smooth, ironed pride flag]

    flag expert here, they only do this when they're very distressed!!!

      • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
        ·
        1 year ago

        Why impose your traditional standards of beauty on chad wrinkly pride flag havers? 😎 Open your mind. I will iron my pride flag.

        While folded up, to add the wrinkles back

        • Melina [they/them, fae/faer]
          hexagon
          ·
          1 year ago

          It’s not wrinkly though that’s the problem. It’s the fact it looks how it was packaged and those aren’t natural creases those are creases from being in a piece of plastic for a few months.

          • CrimsonSage [any]
            ·
            1 year ago

            The traditional way to fly a trans flag is with creases!

    • hissing_serpents [she/her, it/its]
      ·
      1 year ago

      i love the symbolism of leaving the creases in, but the sloppy grid pattern bothers me soooo much. need a queer flag code to specify some aesthetically pleasing creases

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
    ·
    1 year ago

    I, too, am an iron your flag person. I have heard some people deliberately do not for some symbolic reason but I can't remember what it is.

        • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Ok well not owning a $10 Target iron, but the norms are classist. Before electricity, clothes irons were just hot pieces of iron with a handle heated by a fire (later with a hole to put in hot bricks/etc to avoid soot on the flat face). Heavy and a huge pain in the ass. Servants would do it because no normal person would want to spend time ironing unless they were coerced. A lot of cleaning norms are this way: it used to be that only rich people could afford servants to handwash all their clothes after each wash, and then we invented labor aids (washing machines, clothes irons, etc) that ended up just increasing the amount of housework to be done, so that it'd take up the same amount of time.

          I'm still ironing my flags though. It's not like they wrinkle once they're put up, it's a one-time thing

    • GaveUp [she/her]
      ·
      1 year ago

      Solidarity with closeted people who have their flags folded hidden away

    • IzyaKatzmann [he/him]
      ·
      1 year ago

      I like it unironed sometimes, I think it's more casual and inviting.

  • Cromalin [she/her]
    ·
    1 year ago

    i saw a post years ago that was about how ironing was actually very bad for pride flags. i assume it was mocking this sort of behavior but idk