hi everyone i hope you're all well so today I'm going to talk about something that I've
kind of avoided talking about as much as possible up until now however more and more of it has
popped up on the internet largely thanks to libs of tick tock and it's got to the point
where i can't really bypass it anymore as just a passing fad i'm talking of course about so-called
child-friendly drag shows it's a strange day in hell when something so obvious is the fact
children should not be exposed to sexually explicit adult entertainment has to not only
be stated but defended and yet here we are in 2022 unironically arguing that children should not be
made to witness drag shows now don't get me wrong i love drag i love drag shows i love drag queens
i love everything about it this isn't an argument about whether or not drag shows should exist but
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okay drag is great fun but ultimately it is not suitable for children because whichever way you
squeeze it there is a sexualized element to drag performance that simply cannot be
eliminated that sexualized element is the essence of drag drag being of course a garish caricature
of heightened femininity with a masculine aggression flowing through it you cannot have
that without some level of sex appeal not even in a supposedly child-friendly setting if you take
away that element you don't have drag you simply have cross-dressing and that brings me to a hugely
important point there is a difference between a cross-dresser and a drag queen cross-dressing
is the simple act of wearing clothing not often associated with one's gender this can be for fun
for entertainment or whatever robin williams is mrs doubtfire john travolta as edna turnblad from
the musical hairspray and every pantomime dame fits into this category as such these might be
men dressed as women but they're doing it for the purposes of telling a story by playing a distinct
character it's not this hyper-stylized sexualized periodical representation of
the concept of femininity therefore this type of cross-dressing is completely child-friendly i mean
who among my generation didn't love watching mrs doubtfire as a kid drag queens on the other
hand are something totally different rather than simply dressing as a woman drag is an art form a
garish hyper-sexualized glamorous caricature of femininity requiring a huge amount of skill and
practice to master to conflate cross-dressing with drag is an insult to drag queens now while drag is
gloriously entertaining it is in its very essence a sexualized performance art just watch rupaul
which is why it blows my mind blows my mind that an alarmingly loud group of people on the left
are so keen on having children witness drag shows over the last three years the notion that somehow
drag queens are good for the social and moral development of little children has been pushed
by left-wing activists this began with drag queen story hour about four years ago which just as it
sounds is drag queens reading stories to children in library schools bookstores and closer to home
the sea life sydney aquarium and brisbane square library yes it happens in australia as well
drag queen story hour isn't just a loose network of events that happen every so often it is
in fact a full-blown organization with chapters all over the world so what is its purpose well
drag queen story hour the organization is a little bit cagey about it stating that the imagination
and play of the gender fluidity of childhood gives kids glamorous positive and unabashedly queer role
models in spaces like this kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and
imagine a world where everyone can be their authentic selves the usual identity politics
buzz words yadda yadda but you know you get the point for a more explicit outline of just why
leftists think pairing drag queens with children story time is essential for their development
have a look at this this is the land of all and everyone fits in here do you see that
they're being nice to the bullies a drag queen is a character you create
to express your feminine side or any other side of yourself that you'd like to explore
yeah you could be a drag queen superhero reason why i do directly story hour is to have fun with
the kids get to know them and also make an impact on them um because i want them to go out there and
embrace the world and i want them to change it because they are our next generation no comment
the drag queen story hour was like so four years ago the push to mesh drag queens with miners
has one-upped itself recently with the advent of full-blown supposedly friendly drag events while
drag queen story hour at least makes an attempt to be appropriate for children so-called family
friendly drag shows are often held in bars and night clubs as opposed to libraries and schools
and features scantily clad men not only dancing in a sexually provocative way in front of children
while the parents smile and applaud gleefully but taking dollar bills for them ala striptease
this came into the public consciousness on june the 4th when the mr mr nightclub in dallas texas
held a drag your kids to pride event clips went viral online depicting drag queens in tiny outfits
doing the splits in front of kids in front of a large neon sign that read it's not going to lick
itself needless to say the backlash was swift and profound to the point where florida governor ron
desantis threatened legislation to charge parents with a felony should they take their kids to a
drag show in texas house of representatives member brian slaton made a statement that he would file a
bill to ban drag shows in the presence of miners in texas and in case you were wondering about the
political nature shall we say of the supposedly family-friendly drag shows take a look at this
video of what appears to be one such event held at city tap dupont just a couple of weeks ago
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now this was uploaded by a drag queen called banarkadev that's the fat one sitting on the
chair with the caption this is the inclusivity and community drag brings this colorful world
of pretend fantasy and glamour that the radical right is so afraid of
evidently if you have an objection to children dancing for dollar bills while watching a man
in a g-string leotard that barely covers his assets you're off the radical right
wow so despite the very obviously inappropriate to say the least nature of this advent there is
an alarmingly loud minority of people who defend these shows or at least downplay them by comparing
the drag queens to pantomime dames or mrs doubtfire thus ignoring as i mentioned earlier the
stark difference between cross-dressing and drag i actually wrote an article about this for sky news
australia a couple of weeks ago saying basically what i'm saying here but using less words and here
were some of the comments drag shows are harmless but if you want to be a bigot then don't take
your kids to church either yet i don't see the intellectual minnows in florida or texas talking
about banning nicki minaj and co conservatives only ever have a problem when it defends their
usually religious ideology and if anyone knows about cultural regression it's the conservatives
good to see you focusing on the big issues of the day daisy gotta angry up those right-wing nut jobs
then there were the reply tweets when i put it on twitter the obsession of the wingnut right with
transgender people is bizarre i wonder if daisy sky after dark wannabe has ever met a trans person
do they threaten daisy now the joke about this reply is that it's actually really transphobic
drag queens are not trans they are men dressing up as women for the purposes of entertainment
that is totally different from being a trans woman therefore in one fell swoop that tolerant
empathetic and totally informed lefty is reducing being transgender to transvestism
don't try to be woke if you don't know how to be woke then there were the weird and totally
unrelated mentions of presumably abusive priests i know more people damaged his
children by priests than drag queens why can't you and your ilk mind your own effing business
if laws are broken the authorities step in unless you're a priest and you confess of course
this obviously is a disingenuous what about ism as if somehow by objecting to child-friendly drag
shows i'm ignoring the issue of priests who abuse children only those comments also indicate a
deliberate misreading of my article and i'm sure that there will also be people who misinterpret
this video in the same way at no point did i say drag queens harm children or abuse children
my issue clearly is not with drag queens it's with the fact there are people out there who are trying
to plug this adult entertainment as appropriate for children which raises another important point
a lot of the time i don't actually think this is the fault of individual drag queens i mean
drag performers are performers and they rely on getting gigs in order to pay the bills
at the best of times jobing performers rely very much on whatever they can get and that is triply
true in the wake of covid so if you are a drag queen by trade and you've got expenses to pay for
and you are offered a stint doing drag queen story hour or a family drag event of course you're going
to take it you you likely cannot afford not to the problem i have is obviously with the venues
and organizations that put on these events in the first place and with the parents who think they're
just so tolerant and work by taking their children to them as i said before at least drag queen story
hour attempts to be appropriate for children and tries although it fails to dilute or eliminate
the sexuality element child targeted drag shows appear to do the opposite they lean into the
sexuality of drag why is unclear and aside from anything else the argument that drag teaches
children about gender fluidity similarly falls flat drag is binary there is nothing fluid about
the gender stereotype it portrays the women drag queens portray are so rooted in the gender binary
they're practically coming out the other side the only difference is that they are portrayed by men
speaking of which it is so odd that the self-confessedly pro-women left is so keen
on drag while it is fun to watch drag is quite misogynistic it betrays women through the lens
of how some men perceive them in a hyperbolic unflattering fashion it's basically women
as viewed through the male gaze with the volume turned up a million percent why the supposedly
feminist left is happy for one of young children's first experiences of femininity outside the family
is men wearing thick makeup and fake lady parts portraying a histrionic sexed up version of
womanhood i have no idea all in all there is no reason why children should be attending these
kinds of events the problem is not the fact men are dressing up as women there's nothing wrong
with that the problem is the manner in which they are doing it taking children to a drag show is the
equivalent of sitting them in front of a cardi b or nicki minaj music video which generally
features performers twerking in very little clothing and calling it children's entertainment
nobody would consider that kind of material appropriate for children i do not understand
why drag queens can do pretty much the same thing only in person while collecting dollar bills and
somehow according to the identity politics lobby that's perfectly child friendly it
makes no sense and i do not understand what is so special about drag queens that they get this
kind of virulently argued hall pass ultimately i think this tweet sums it up which is a reply
to libs of tick tock's tweet about the event at city tap dupont still trying to imagine
the level of anger that would be hurled at straight men bringing their daughters to seedy
strip clubs to have them parade around with strippers as men stuff money in their clothes
it would be off the charts and well earned why is this scene as different
my thoughts exactly why any of this even needs to be said is an alarming sign of cultural regression
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