Drag queen assembly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth would they hire a burlesque dancer to speak at a school?

They didn't. Drag is a different art form from burlesque.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get the concern because there was a Kabuki demonstration at an assembly in my elementary school and it gave me nightmares.

But did you become a Kabuki performer? Because I think that's the OP's concern.

[Anonymous]

Most drag is men dressing up as women, exaggerating women's features and stereotypes of women. Really a mockery of women.

[Anonymous]

Dcum will defend this to the end, but I also would not consider this okay in school, especially for middle schoolers. Drag is adult entertainment. It’s not okay at a middle school assembly.

[Anonymous]

Almost all of drag hypersexualizes women. Not an art form I want around my kids. If adults want to go and see it in a club - great.

[Anonymous]

People, this is a BULLSHIT post. No middle school is having a drag show in this political climate. OP is a shit stirring troll.

[Anonymous]

When my kid was in middle school 2 years ago in the Bethesda area, her school was hyperfocused on LBGTQ+ awareness and other social issues. Every summer, for the reading assignment, there would either be a poorly written book about bullying in school, or a poorly-written book about gender questioning. I couldn't care less what the content is. Conversations about gender and bullying in middle school are obviously important. But can schools present QUALITY content? My kid would come back and criticize the assemblies, saying: "we had an LBGTQ soccer player who presented, and it was boring, all she did was spent the entire time describing her own brilliant career and tell her we could be anything we wanted to be - like, I already knew that. I'd rather be in class".

I used to be the coordinator who selected arts and science shows and workshops at my kids' elementary, and my FIRST order of business was finding truly intelligent and professional performances. I did it for years, and you know what? It's a ton of work! There's a whole industry of performers and presenters who market themselves to schools, and most of them are very low-level and not worth the price, and even less worth the children's time out of class. It took me hundreds of hours to find an excellent historical actress, for example, who would re-enact important women in history for the children; or a playwright who would inspire kids to write their own mini-plays and perform them at the end of the year. Or a mathematical magician who wowed the kids but also made them do math.

Let's hope your school's drag queen is actually intelligent and has interesting stuff to say. But the choice smells very strongly of performative virtue-signaling.

[Anonymous]

I’m embarrassed on behalf of your kid.

[Anonymous]

My high school had an assembly presented by a guy who believed that aliens are real, the government has alien bodies in its possession, and he had a 3 ft. tall typical little green man statue with him as a prop.

Even if aliens are real, this was unnecessary.

I also had a classroom teacher show us an HBO documentary about Nostradamus. That was also a head scratcher and I used to worry that a nuclear bomb was going to hit NYC (just in case I was wrong to doubt).

[Anonymous]

Sure bro

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids school is having an assembly and the speaker is a drag queen. No idea if they will be showing up in drag, performing or just talking about their career as a drag artist but this feels inappropriate to me. Middle schoolers will be there (11-13 years old). Yes, I’m old but am planning to make sure my kid has a dentist appointment that day. I can’t be the only one who thinks this is a little odd, right? And somewhat performative?

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dcum will defend this to the end, but I also would not consider this okay in school, especially for middle schoolers. Drag is adult entertainment. It’s not okay at a middle school assembly.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dcum will defend this to the end, but I also would not consider this okay in school, especially for middle schoolers. Drag is adult entertainment. It’s not okay at a middle school assembly.

+1

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dcum will defend this to the end, but I also would not consider this okay in school, especially for middle schoolers. Drag is adult entertainment. It’s not okay at a middle school assembly.

Yes, why not bring 8n some strippers or black face performers. Anyone who thinks drag is fun has no idea.

[Anonymous]

Mans the school or you are a troll