Drag Shows for Kids

Well it is being used to make comments attacking trans people and trans rights and trans children.

😂😂😂 I'm putting in a request to Boards Admin to introduce a special thank you button x1000

🤣🤣🤣🤣 - posts like this expressing shock that drag exists and telling us that all white gay men reject drag and then to rail against attention seeking in an attention seeking manner - Yeah this is great comedy. How much do you charge.

Should a naked man be posing next to a child?

Asking that question doesn't mean that you have some sort of problem with LGBTQ people. It's a reasonable question about what is appropriate for children.

Take away the wig and make up, make the man heterosexual, should he then be posing next to a child with his exposed genitals?

The level of absolute insanity on this thread is bordering on the unbelievable.

Drag isn't the same as panto dames, children shouldn't be encouraged to take part in overtly sexual entertainment.

This is an issue that boils LGBTQ people down to latently sexualised caricatures that exist only to express their sexuality, but somehow its empowering and wonderful.

I thought society had moved beyond this, how anyone advocating for LGBTQ rights can put any weight behind this is mind boggling.

Thinking a bit more about this maybe the question that needs to be asked is, how do children benefit from watching a drag show?

In what way is a child's life improved by seeing a man dressed as a woman, having money stuffed into thier underwear and eventually removing all their clothing an exposing thier genitalia to the children?

What is the lesson here? All LGBTQ people are simply objects to be treated in a dehumanizing manner? Taking your clothes off for money is a career you should aspire to in adult life?

Who benefits from this?

From any logical position it seems like everyone loses.

Yes, and don't you think our society could have benefitted from being just a little bit more vigilant around people from the church? Sure, they aren't all bad but the attitude of deny and deflect allowed the abuse to become so widespread. By the time the truth came out it was far too late. I'm sure in villages and towns across the country some of the stuff going on was basically an open secret but nobody could fight against it because they'd be shouted down and maybe even ostracised.

So when post 1 is an example of some pretty dodgy stuff and post 2 is an immediate full house of deny, dismiss, downplay and whataboutery then I think it's fair for people to wonder what the hell is going on here.

People who have probably been screeching about Donald Trump since around 2014 suddenly very willing to say if it isn't happening here then it isn't relevant.

I just wonder why some people are so utterly afraid to speak up that they'll even go as far as pretending that there simply isn't an issue? How far would things have to go before we can say "I'm all for trolling right wing people but this is too far"?

Turning a blind eye to pretty horrible stuff in order to protect the community will ultimately end very very badly. Better to just rip the band-aid off now and admit there is an issue.

How can you make the point about the church and not also see the parallels? Are you really so blind? Or just stubborn?

Just to clarfiy, I've already condemned this photo andt I feel like I'm pointing out that the Emperor's not wearing any clothes, here; but: that's not actually a drag act.

My point entirely. Again: photo is not drag.

All you ever do is attention seeking on these threads so that's rich coming from you, one of the most insufferable TRAS on this site. What's your opinion on the pedo in that picture with his dick out next to a child? Suppose you'll brand me a phobe or ist like you do by default for asking that but try answer the question.

If it's just coming to the school and reading a book to the kids then I don't see too much of a big deal. Good for the kids if it promotes reading and if there's some kind of inspirational element then good too. It's a funny person in a funny costume going to read them a story no big deal.

I suppose the question then is why Drag Queens specifically? Could kind of understand if the kids are getting a sci-fi story you might have a dude dressed as an astronaut or a lady dressed as an alien etc. Some book about dangerous animals and the narrator is dressed like Steve Irwin, I get it. Why specifically Drag Queens and why the coordination across the US, Canada, UK, Australia etc? This one specific thing suddenly became very important have in schools, for some reason.

The first red flag would be if this is some kind of attempt to "disrupt" the students thinking. The vast majority of these kids would have a mum and a dad, aunts and uncles, grandparents and would on a basic level understand that you have come from your parents and that your relatives are quite easily distinguishable as a man or a woman. The idea of needing to interfere with this or disrupt it is a little bit strange. Yes, we want kids to acknowledge that people can be different and we want them to be caring and to be good people but the idea of actively attempting to shake things up is just really suspicious.

The second red flag for me is then going to be things like trying to keep the content of these events secret from parents or even just the public at large. Parents excluded from events, events being done without parents permission. People immediately trying to shut down the conversation when someone suggests there might be an issue. That's all just a little bit too strange. If there's any lack of transparency or attempt to obscure then for me there's a problem.

Third red flag is that with all of the above combined if the themes or topics of conversation are things specifically around sex and sexuality then we've probably got a major issue here. Why does it have to be this topic specifically? It just seems like the exact type of thing that would drive a wedge between the parents, the teachers and the kids themselves.

Ah, I'm sure it'll all be fine. Sure we used to let the church into the schools and let them indoctrinate the kids and gave them access and trusted them and that worked out OK, didn't it?