Drag Shows for Kids

I was just thinking to myself; why would an adult drag artist even begin to think that "hmm, let's introduce this to children".

Why would that idea even enter someone's mind?

The same principle would apply to any other form of adult entertainment.

I think INTENT is important here.

A pantomime is a show. It's not sexualised. There's no agenda at play. intent. (No different from Ballet which is quite revealing but the intent behind it, removes any sexualisation of the content)

Traditional drag is simply dressing as your opposite gender, for whatever reason, but if it is sexualised, it's done in an adult environment. Bars, clubs, etc. TBH most people I've known who dressed in drag weren't gay.. they were heterosexual males who liked dressing as a woman and being feminine, but remained heterosexual. They'd be the first to say not to do it in front of children.

The photos of guys in extreme drag, and it is rather extreme, is something else. I suspect it's more of this promotional crap for Trans beliefs. Which is wrong, because it seeks to promote Trans beliefs to impressionable children/minors. That's creepy and should be shutdown fast. If a child comes to believe themselves to be Trans by their own steam, grand, support them... but there's been a variety of efforts over the last decade to "educate" children, telling them about being trans and encouraging them to express them as such. Which is wrong. It's **** creepy TBH.

There is a cancer in western culture which says to blur every line or distinction, making everything "okay" to do.. but it does nothing to consider the possible consequences, and after effects over the long-term.

People just can't separate what they're looking at into separate issues. They see drag and their brain remembers "I'm pro-LGBT so I must defend this."

There's a classic thing where if you can't substitute "the Jews" into a sentence, you're probably wrong. So I'll volunteer myself.

Substitute me, an Irish man in his 30s, and some of my grade 6 Vietnamese students into the photos. If you think it would be acceptable for me to be in a bikini with 12-year-old Asian children putting money into it, you're weird. If you think me being naked holding a Vietnamese child's arm is just some sort of fun costume play, you're weird.

I pity people who can only look at things through whatever lens they have in their pocket that seems related to the situation.

It's interesting that they would believe it a good thing to introduce children to the idea that they can pay for or buy something from a semi-naked person.. I mean, who thought it a good idea to teach children about strip-club/lapdancing activities? I genuinely wonder what else was explained in association to the act of putting money in that way?

Even if nothing was explained, and the kids were just encouraged to put use money in this fashion, what was the point? It's an adult activity... and it is a sexualised action. I can imagine those kids going home to their parents and asking them why it was done.. It's just such a bizarre thing to teach to children, and shows that there's little appreciation for what might come from it.

TBH I'm amazed we're not hearing anger over objectification of women... 😀

You can be both pro-LGBT rights and anti- these extreme child drag shows.

They're not incompatible positions. In fact, I'm gay and I 100% oppose these shows. This should have nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with common decency.

Yet for some in society, making these kinds of distinction seems almost impossible, bizarrely.

If we are interested in minority rights, perhaps defenders of these shows should consider the rights of minors not to be exposed to penises, scantily-clad adults, and the overtly sexualised lap-dancing practice of placing money into the panties of performers.