The fact that you equate drag queens with strippers shows how ignorant you are of the drag world. I mean please. Have you actually ever taken a close look at real drag queens??? |
Parade organizers go out of their way to organize these parades as family friendly. And stop with the whataboutism |
A parent can turn off all those things |
Why the sudden desire to do this? |
Why is this a false equivalence? Because it doesn't suit your fictious narrative that trans and drag queens are the leading cause of sexual abuse for children? There's more bad news too: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/louisiana-lawmakers-reject-bill-set-minimum-marriage-age-n1013356 https://www.newsweek.com/idaho-congress-blocks-bill-end-child-marriage-1348919 https://www.newsweek.com/wyoming-ending-child-marriage-sparks-republican-outrage-1780501 https://apnews.com/article/sex-abuse-catholic-church-mormon-5d78129a2fe666159a22ce71323f6da3 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-church-lawsuit/seventh-day-adventist-church-sued-over-allegations-of-abuse-in-youth-program-idUSKBN0GR02J20140827 Care to respond to these? Or are you just going to deflect? Because it's never about protecting the kids. |
Just as a parent can decide not to take kids to events they consider inappropriate for them. |
Not the Pp you replied to here. I have questions for you. Do you consider a man medically transitioning to a woman or a woman medically transitioning to a man is itself sexually explicit? Do you consider a trans person around children, dressed like an average person of the gender they’re transitioning to, grooming? Do you think parents that are transgender should have children removed from their home? Also, do you think it’s in appropriate and sexually explicit for two women to hold hands in public or two men to kiss? |
I’m one of the PPs who is against guns and sterilization/medicalization of kids. Do you consider a man medically transitioning to a woman or a woman medically transitioning to a man is itself sexually explicit? No. Do you consider a trans person around children, dressed like an average person of the gender they’re transitioning to, grooming? Depends on the context. Just going around their daily lives, no. Going to child support groups and joining youth groups to try to encourage kids to transition, yes. Do you think parents that are transgender should have children removed from their home? That should almost never happen, but I think the bar for removal of kids has to be very high in general (abuse). I do think some parents who push their kids into transitioning and taking medication (and some have openly talked about this) qualify as abusive. Also, do you think it’s in appropriate and sexually explicit for two women to hold hands in public or two men to kiss? No. Actually I think it is very sweet. |
One addition to this: I don’t consider people like Dylan Mulvaney to be grooming, but I do consider Dylan to be demonstrating and engaging in terrible sexism and misogyny. I think that’s true of a lot of drag queens as well: they rely on grossly harmful stereotypes of women for entertainment. It is not grooming. It is horrific sexism and misogyny, though. |
Another pp who is also in favor of protecting kids from both guns and sex. I agree with all of this pp's answers. Also, I think it's bizarre that the far left doesn't conceive of trans or gay people as being normal people with normal morals. I actually think it's a bad faith way to normalize sex abuse of kids. Gay people and trans people don't require children to observe them in various stages of kink any more than straight people-- that is to say, not at all. |
So, being trans or drag has nothing to do with exposing children to sexual activity right? So we can keep kids away from sexual activities involving trans and drag people, and that's not bigotry, because it is normal and desirable to shelter children from sexual things like strip clubs and fetish gatherings. Can we all agree on this, without qualification? |
Drag is fundamentally about exaggerating stereotypes (very often but not always sexual stereotypes) of an oppressed class of people by an oppressor class for entertainment. For this reason, drag should not be promoted to children by the state. If parents want to expose their children to men appropriating harmful stereotypes of women, that is their choice as parents. |
I agree, at least in nearly all instances. There have been examples of drag queens using DQSH for inappropriate purposes, but there are also many examples of straight men using children’s activities for inappropriate purposes, so I don’t think it’s fair to tar all drag queens that way. My issue with DQSH is that it teaches children, particularly girls, that mocking women and particularly women’s physical appearances is acceptable behavior by men. Drag degrades women. DQSH is deeply regressive sexism at heart and I do not think it’s healthy for children, especially girls. It teaches girls that mocking women for being women, particularly older women, is fine so long as men are doing it. |
Very well said. It is the sexism and misogyny at issue here. |
If it were only straight men who were doing drag then perhaps you'd have a point. But as we all know, drag queens are typically gay men who likewise traditionally constitute an oppressed group of people. And if you actually meet and talk to drag queens you'd see that they are not "mocking" women. That is a right wing talking point. It is on you if you think that a drag queen is "mocking" women. Also I think it's telling that people like you never bring up women who dress in a stereotypical masculine way. Is that "mocking" men? And many women performers adopt a kind of "drag queen" persona. Just look at Dolly Parton. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/the-joy-of-drag |