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Drag queens that wear huge wigs and makeup and sing Tina Turner (RIP) covers or showtunes? I agree. Totally harmless. Ive been to drag brunches with kids and its NBD and actually kind of wholesome. Drag queens in hot pants twerking and doing burlesque style routines, that I can see an issue with. And Ive seen video of kids at both and think kids at the latter is inappropriate and frankly kind of creepy. Nuance is important, though I'd imagine many of those bothered by drag queens would be bothered if they were saving children from a burning building.I'll admit, while it doesn't offend or bother me, I'm not sure why drag queen storytime at a school or library is really necessary. I'd say the same if it was LARP storytime or Civil War Reenactment storytime.
Yep. Burlesque style drag shows for adults? Go ahead. For kids? Nope. And if you think otherwise, are you ok with the same show for kids, but with actual women doing the dancing/twerking, etc., instead of drag queens doing it?
So, I wouldn't take my kids to a burlesque-style drag event. Or non-drag burlesque-style event. But, that said:1. Burlesque and twerking is not what is occurring at the drag storytimes and brunches that has the right up in arms.* That's just a red herring used to stoke fears about drag in general and, more accurately, create an "other" for people to hate so they can be distracted from those elements of society who really are harming them and their children.2. Any parent who supplies their kid with access to the internet has to know they're almost assuredly seeing far more concerning content than a guy in drag shaking his ass, right?* And yes, I'm sure you can find an outlier. The exception doesn't prove the rule.
Did not want to highjack the MLB thread. As a Catholic I find this quite disturbing.https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254397/la-archdiocese-dodgers-decision-to-honor-drag-queen-nuns-demeans-religious-sisters
You may be right that the twerking drag shows are the exception. And I wouldn't disagree that kids with access to the internet are seeing a lot of concerning content. But I just don't get the obsession with sexualizing kids. Period. Because they can see it on their own by surfing the interweb, sexual content (including burlesque drag shows) should then be mainstreamed and normalized for kids by adults? Nope. That's more than creepy.
As a Catholic, I agree how disturbing it is that the church has gone so wayward in its priorities. Rather than focusing on what matters, they’re engaging in culture war BS. Let’s see a return to teaching how to be a good, compassionate person to all, in the same way as J man.
Where is the thread regarding child beauty pageants? Toddlers and tiaras was a TV show for years, and yet, not a peep around these parts.Sorry, I didn't mean this to be a personal thing, but more of an overarching comment about why one is accepted and normalized (child beauty pageants) while the other (reading while playing dress up) is frowned upon.
It’s ok to sexualize girls early to get them ready for adulthood. That way, it’s far less creepy to post about them as sexual objects on college basketball message boards
Sex pots.
Did you sing along with L-O-L-A Lola?How about when.... they shaved their legs and he was a she?How about when Van Morrison sang about teenagers having sex?
2. Any parent who supplies their kid with access to the internet has to know they're almost assuredly seeing far more concerning content than a guy in drag shaking his ass, right?
Normalizes instead of otherizes. Reading to kids is always great, and if they learn to be accepting of everyone in the meantime, why not?
Yea, the "kids can find it or see much worse if they have the internet" argument for this kind of stuff seems like a lazy deflection. I don't want to take kids to a strip club but they can find stripper videos easily with the internet.
You may be right that the twerking drag shows are the exception. And I wouldn't disagree that kids with access to the internet are seeing a lot of concerning content. But I just don't get the obsession with sexualizing kids.
I fear gun idolatry and Christian nationalistic fascism. I do not fear books, ideas, or drag queens.I believe in the great commandment and the beatitudes. Neither come with exemptions or provisos.I agree with Bonhoeffer. We have more to fear from stupidity than evil.If die today, my soul is at peace.
Is there really an "obsession" with sexualizing kids?From who? How? Where?I mean, sure, maybe the politicians who defend child marriage are sexualizing kids. Or the podcasters who say talk about 16 being prime babymaking age. But what are some other blatant examples?
Why is it always men dressed as women reading to kids… but not women dressed as men doing so?
If you want women dressed as men... go back to Shakespeare.Early Eurythmics Annie Lenox.A couple of cheesy 80's teen flix.