The Hello Fresh ad is an example of the difference between progressive and permissive - and it's one of the major ways in which the left has landed us in what I'm pretty sure cultural archaeologists will call The Cretinous Era.
Progressive = equal rights & treatment for all.
Permissive = allowing groups to carve out exceptions to the universalism that is a core tenet of a free and fair society.
Permissiveness is sought by the worst people on the planet. And it's allowed by 'progressives' who are so deeply insecure that they will just roll over and become a doormat rather than put up a single boundary.
Examples:
Progressive: equal rights for gay people
Permissive: "Oh, you just noshed each other off on the street at Pride? No, that's like totally cool man. Who am I to judge?"
Progressive: freedom of religion for all
Permissive: you can make death threats based on your religious beliefs and we'll 'respect' your culture
Progressive: let's not judge people who have gender dysophoria, a vanishingly rare mental illness
Permissive: any man can use women's spaces as long as he utters the magic words "I am trans"
Permissiveness is dangerous in and of itself. But also because it generates such (righteous) anger that it rolls back the gains progressiveness created. The baby starts getting thrown out with the rancid, tainted bathwater.
The biggest 'enemy' of progressivism has never been the people who oppose progress.
It's been the people who are so tragically obsessed with being seen as 'cool' or 'down with the kids' that they will tolerate even the most stupid of ideas, coming from the most deviant, obnoxious or dangerous people on the planet.
Tag 'Hello Fresh'. You're it.
Many (including myself) have cited the pernicious influence of TQ activism on LGB acceptance. Still others have noted the illiberal turn of recent gay rights activism.
The increasing candor with which the material facts of gay sex are broadcast everywhere may also be playing a role.
Whoever interpreted acceptance of homosexuality as a release from basic standards of decorum and decency erred badly, and in fact vindicated the predictions of opponents of the cause. They said it would be this way, and so it is.