Drag Queen Story Hours

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TX ICAC and FBI just arrested 59 people in connection with a giant porn ring in the DFW area. They also freed 28 kids during the bust.

Not one of the names listed is a drag queen. Many of the names listed are pastors, teachers, firefighters, leo, and the like.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/two-dozen-children-rescued-59-arrested-in-massive-child-porn-investigation-police/3197749/

Great - I still don’t want my child exposed to a grown man and his uncontrollable fetish to act out a caricature of what he thinks is a woman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Minstrelsy blackface, it is sometimes claimed, was one of the first uniquely – and uniquely awful – American forms of artistic expression.

For decades and decades, on stages and then in movies, white Americans darkened their faces with burnt cork or shoe polish, exaggerated their features and mannerisms, and pretended to be black Americans – lazy, oafish, superstitious, sexually rapacious, illiterate, stupid, inferior black Americans.

It was a direct outgrowth of the nation’s history of slavery and racism, a white-supremacist reflection of a majority culture ridiculing the very people it was oppressing. It flourished in the years after slavery was abolished – a knee-jerk cultural reaction by white Americans who were clearly uncomfortable with the social ramifications of free black Americans.

That is why blackface remains so offensive today. It’s not just the burnt cork. It’s the history and context.

So when people try to co-opt blackface for their own unrelated political aims – by, say, comparing drag queens to blackface performers – it cynically reduces the historical crime of blackface to little more than a selfish, opportunistic political strategy. It’s like comparing a hangnail to the Holocaust.

If drag queens freak you out, you should at least not pretend it’s because you’re so dang woke.”


https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/jun/12/dont-compare-drag-queens-to-blackfaced-minstrels/

Right. A white male author is invested in telling women that objecting to the exaggerated physical, emotional, and language features that drag queens use to mimic women is just “selfish” and “opportunistic.”

For historic reference, there were many, many white people over the years who were invested in telling Black people that blackface was “just entertainment” and they should “get a sense of humor” and blackface was just fine.

Women should just get a sense of humor, right? Why are they so dang uptight? I, a white man, need the right to mock them as I please!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My problem with drag queens is that they seem to me like a caricature of women -- sort of like the exaggerated form of blackface that, for instance, Al Jolson used. Women have enough trouble already.

You do not understand.

You are a closed-minded, transphobic MAGA-idiot bigot!

.

And you have a need to degrade women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Minstrelsy blackface, it is sometimes claimed, was one of the first uniquely – and uniquely awful – American forms of artistic expression.

For decades and decades, on stages and then in movies, white Americans darkened their faces with burnt cork or shoe polish, exaggerated their features and mannerisms, and pretended to be black Americans – lazy, oafish, superstitious, sexually rapacious, illiterate, stupid, inferior black Americans.

It was a direct outgrowth of the nation’s history of slavery and racism, a white-supremacist reflection of a majority culture ridiculing the very people it was oppressing. It flourished in the years after slavery was abolished – a knee-jerk cultural reaction by white Americans who were clearly uncomfortable with the social ramifications of free black Americans.

That is why blackface remains so offensive today. It’s not just the burnt cork. It’s the history and context.

So when people try to co-opt blackface for their own unrelated political aims – by, say, comparing drag queens to blackface performers – it cynically reduces the historical crime of blackface to little more than a selfish, opportunistic political strategy. It’s like comparing a hangnail to the Holocaust.

If drag queens freak you out, you should at least not pretend it’s because you’re so dang woke.”


https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/jun/12/dont-compare-drag-queens-to-blackfaced-minstrels/

Right. A white male author is invested in telling women that objecting to the exaggerated physical, emotional, and language features that drag queens use to mimic women is just “selfish” and “opportunistic.”

For historic reference, there were many, many white people over the years who were invested in telling Black people that blackface was “just entertainment” and they should “get a sense of humor” and blackface was just fine.

Women should just get a sense of humor, right? Why are they so dang uptight? I, a white man, need the right to mock them as I please!

I’m getting a few make up tips to boot! Win win

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Minstrelsy blackface, it is sometimes claimed, was one of the first uniquely – and uniquely awful – American forms of artistic expression.

For decades and decades, on stages and then in movies, white Americans darkened their faces with burnt cork or shoe polish, exaggerated their features and mannerisms, and pretended to be black Americans – lazy, oafish, superstitious, sexually rapacious, illiterate, stupid, inferior black Americans.

It was a direct outgrowth of the nation’s history of slavery and racism, a white-supremacist reflection of a majority culture ridiculing the very people it was oppressing. It flourished in the years after slavery was abolished – a knee-jerk cultural reaction by white Americans who were clearly uncomfortable with the social ramifications of free black Americans.

That is why blackface remains so offensive today. It’s not just the burnt cork. It’s the history and context.

So when people try to co-opt blackface for their own unrelated political aims – by, say, comparing drag queens to blackface performers – it cynically reduces the historical crime of blackface to little more than a selfish, opportunistic political strategy. It’s like comparing a hangnail to the Holocaust.

If drag queens freak you out, you should at least not pretend it’s because you’re so dang woke.”


https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/jun/12/dont-compare-drag-queens-to-blackfaced-minstrels/

Right. A white male author is invested in telling women that objecting to the exaggerated physical, emotional, and language features that drag queens use to mimic women is just “selfish” and “opportunistic.”

For historic reference, there were many, many white people over the years who were invested in telling Black people that blackface was “just entertainment” and they should “get a sense of humor” and blackface was just fine.

Women should just get a sense of humor, right? Why are they so dang uptight? I, a white man, need the right to mock them as I please!

I’m getting a few make up tips to boot! Win win

From the article? You read a different article than I did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Minstrelsy blackface, it is sometimes claimed, was one of the first uniquely – and uniquely awful – American forms of artistic expression.

For decades and decades, on stages and then in movies, white Americans darkened their faces with burnt cork or shoe polish, exaggerated their features and mannerisms, and pretended to be black Americans – lazy, oafish, superstitious, sexually rapacious, illiterate, stupid, inferior black Americans.

It was a direct outgrowth of the nation’s history of slavery and racism, a white-supremacist reflection of a majority culture ridiculing the very people it was oppressing. It flourished in the years after slavery was abolished – a knee-jerk cultural reaction by white Americans who were clearly uncomfortable with the social ramifications of free black Americans.

That is why blackface remains so offensive today. It’s not just the burnt cork. It’s the history and context.

So when people try to co-opt blackface for their own unrelated political aims – by, say, comparing drag queens to blackface performers – it cynically reduces the historical crime of blackface to little more than a selfish, opportunistic political strategy. It’s like comparing a hangnail to the Holocaust.

If drag queens freak you out, you should at least not pretend it’s because you’re so dang woke.”


https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/jun/12/dont-compare-drag-queens-to-blackfaced-minstrels/

Right. A white male author is invested in telling women that objecting to the exaggerated physical, emotional, and language features that drag queens use to mimic women is just “selfish” and “opportunistic.”

For historic reference, there were many, many white people over the years who were invested in telling Black people that blackface was “just entertainment” and they should “get a sense of humor” and blackface was just fine.

Women should just get a sense of humor, right? Why are they so dang uptight? I, a white man, need the right to mock them as I please!

I’m getting a few make up tips to boot! Win win

From the article? You read a different article than I did.

Ok Sparky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Minstrelsy blackface, it is sometimes claimed, was one of the first uniquely – and uniquely awful – American forms of artistic expression.

For decades and decades, on stages and then in movies, white Americans darkened their faces with burnt cork or shoe polish, exaggerated their features and mannerisms, and pretended to be black Americans – lazy, oafish, superstitious, sexually rapacious, illiterate, stupid, inferior black Americans.

It was a direct outgrowth of the nation’s history of slavery and racism, a white-supremacist reflection of a majority culture ridiculing the very people it was oppressing. It flourished in the years after slavery was abolished – a knee-jerk cultural reaction by white Americans who were clearly uncomfortable with the social ramifications of free black Americans.

That is why blackface remains so offensive today. It’s not just the burnt cork. It’s the history and context.

So when people try to co-opt blackface for their own unrelated political aims – by, say, comparing drag queens to blackface performers – it cynically reduces the historical crime of blackface to little more than a selfish, opportunistic political strategy. It’s like comparing a hangnail to the Holocaust.

If drag queens freak you out, you should at least not pretend it’s because you’re so dang woke.”


https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/jun/12/dont-compare-drag-queens-to-blackfaced-minstrels/

Right. A white male author is invested in telling women that objecting to the exaggerated physical, emotional, and language features that drag queens use to mimic women is just “selfish” and “opportunistic.”

For historic reference, there were many, many white people over the years who were invested in telling Black people that blackface was “just entertainment” and they should “get a sense of humor” and blackface was just fine.

Women should just get a sense of humor, right? Why are they so dang uptight? I, a white man, need the right to mock them as I please!

I’m getting a few make up tips to boot! Win win

From the article? You read a different article than I did.

Ok Sparky.

Nice response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TX ICAC and FBI just arrested 59 people in connection with a giant porn ring in the DFW area. They also freed 28 kids during the bust.

Not one of the names listed is a drag queen. Many of the names listed are pastors, teachers, firefighters, leo, and the like.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/two-dozen-children-rescued-59-arrested-in-massive-child-porn-investigation-police/3197749/

Great - I still don’t want my child exposed to a grown man and his uncontrollable fetish to act out a caricature of what he thinks is a woman.

"Uncontrollable fetish"?

You're disgusting.

[Anonymous]

It's weird that people think their kids will be somehow exposed to drag queen story hours if they don't actually, you know, take their kid to a drag queen story time. Weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TX ICAC and FBI just arrested 59 people in connection with a giant porn ring in the DFW area. They also freed 28 kids during the bust.

Not one of the names listed is a drag queen. Many of the names listed are pastors, teachers, firefighters, leo, and the like.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/two-dozen-children-rescued-59-arrested-in-massive-child-porn-investigation-police/3197749/

Great - I still don’t want my child exposed to a grown man and his uncontrollable fetish to act out a caricature of what he thinks is a woman.

Why are you sexualizing children? Not ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My problem with drag queens is that they seem to me like a caricature of women -- sort of like the exaggerated form of blackface that, for instance, Al Jolson used. Women have enough trouble already.

+1 Yes!

NP here. Not sock puppeting, as has been purported--believe it or not there are many women, mostly real feminists, who feel this way. I have grown increasingly uncomfortable with the level of misogyny of drag. There is no other way to look at it. Drag queens are not good for women. If they're not making a caricature out of us, they're "celebrating" this hyper-feminine, super made-up, frilly side of women, which is not how we should wish to be celebrated. It is offensive to women, always has been.

That's okay if you feel that way, but I am a woman and don't feel that it is a caricature of a woman at all. A caricature of femininity, maybe. But my womanhood has nothing to do with makeup or glamorous dresses or having big fake boobs. Idk. I don't feel mocked.

[Anonymous]

It is pretty interesting that in this thread, posters have respectfully and (largely) without name-calling, discussed their thoughts on misogyny and sexism in drag, but the responses to those posts have (largely) just been people name-calling and unwilling to address the substance.

It isn’t very persuasive to sound like you are having a temper tantrum when a member of a historically deeply oppressed group says “hey, I perceive this as entertainment based in deep and historic oppression.”

There were blistering articles written about the right to blackface back in the day. There is nothing like the entitlement of the powerful to provoke rage when questioned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can parents who take their children to these events explain the appeal. What am I missing? Never had these when I was a kid or when raising my own children.

Hmm and you can’t fathom things have changed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is pretty interesting that in this thread, posters have respectfully and (largely) without name-calling, discussed their thoughts on misogyny and sexism in drag, but the responses to those posts have (largely) just been people name-calling and unwilling to address the substance.

It isn’t very persuasive to sound like you are having a temper tantrum when a member of a historically deeply oppressed group says “hey, I perceive this as entertainment based in deep and historic oppression.”

There were blistering articles written about the right to blackface back in the day. There is nothing like the entitlement of the powerful to provoke rage when questioned.

Why do you think we're trying to "persuade" you of anything? You make disgusting comments then people will call you out for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is pretty interesting that in this thread, posters have respectfully and (largely) without name-calling, discussed their thoughts on misogyny and sexism in drag, but the responses to those posts have (largely) just been people name-calling and unwilling to address the substance.

It isn’t very persuasive to sound like you are having a temper tantrum when a member of a historically deeply oppressed group says “hey, I perceive this as entertainment based in deep and historic oppression.”

There were blistering articles written about the right to blackface back in the day. There is nothing like the entitlement of the powerful to provoke rage when questioned.

Why do you think we're trying to "persuade" you of anything? You make disgusting comments then people will call you out for it.

Saying that drag is rooted in a history of misogyny and sexism is “disgusting”?

In fifty years, articles about the history of sexism will be written about people like you, and drag will have entered the history books for the sexist minstrelry that it is at heart. But keep having your temper tantrum in the mean time.