@Aynirar27 - not purposely picking on you here, but since you are being so vocal about it I feel I need to address all of this. If I don't respond again today, it just means I have better things to do (ie. I'm leaving for a BBQ/pool party soon).
Maybe you should ask someone who has hired them to perform? They don’t just show up at schools and libraries, they are hired and requested to be there.
They aren’t imposing on anyone even remotely unwilling to see them.
It’s been a program for almost 10 years, it’s just the cool new thing to up in arms about at the moment.
1. I know they don't just show up to schools - that is insulting to even say that. I don't want to ask the people doing the hiring. They are the biggest part of the problem imo. More so maybe then the drag queens themselves. As an adult, if I was a drag queen, I would refuse to 'perform' or read 'gender bending' books to little kids. Their brains are not fully developed. It is an adult topic. 18 should be the minimum for this (along with drugs, alcohol, smokes, military duty, abortions, changing genders, etc.). I know you see it as cosplay - whatever the fuck that is but it is just wrong.
2. Are you saying these kids are old enough to make a decision on whether or not they want to watch a drag performance? Based on some of the pics and vids I've seen, some of these kids look traumatized, or at the least, very confused.
3. In my opinion, (note how I said that), it is not the "cool new thing". It is another element of many factors contributing to the fall of man.
I imagine most of them are. What’s wrong with that?
I know it’s not really your bag, but a lot of people make a distinction between gender and sex. Drag is more of a dialogue on gender roles than it is about sex in the sense of lust and whatnot
1. Why would you say "most of them are" when you have repeatedly accused some of us as conflating doing drag with being gay?
2. Your description of gender roles vs lust for sex may be the most intelligent description you've made on this topic, so I recognize that. I also agree with you somewhat on the motive. Unfortunately, for me, dressing up as a woman and speaking like a women with your beard and chest hair sticking out - has a sexual element to it. If' I'm the only one who sees it that way then so be it. Again, adult to adult - I don't give af. Kids....no.
I’m not saying any of you guys are doing it, but there have been several bomb threats called in to libraries to try and stop these events. It has happened all over the country. This shit isn’t about keeping the children safe
That is wrong in any book at any level IMO.
But even so, I can’t imagine for a second that every single kid in the class didn’t have their parents sign off on it
But does the "kid in the class", actually, "have their parents sign off"? Seriously?
"Mommy, can I have your permission to go to Drag Queen Story Hour on Wednesday. It is the next cool thing and I like seeing guys dress up like girls and tell us stories? Maybe this time I can sit in their lap too."
I loved school lol. Thankfully my daughters do too.
Actually a middle school in my county is in the middle of a minor scandal because of a “queer” book. A butthurt parent called the police about it instead of the school and now it’s a shitshow for no reason. Another example of the detractors making it worse for everyone.
Here is where a little sympathy for the other point of view might serve you well. I've always done my best to keep it civil. That "butthurt" parent has an opinion. Just like you do. Just like I do. Maybe they didn't want their kid anywhere near that. Maybe they tried taking it up with school first and it fell on deaf ears? Maybe felt pushed against a wall, or being out of options?
PS: I generally have good memories from K thru 12, but admittedly, there were some weird fuckos at my middle school. It was not until I got older did I realize what pervs some of these 'men' were. Nothing toward me directly, but certainly toward girls in my class. If it was legal I'd go hunt them down.
It was that “gender queer” book all the Karens are up in arms about. Unfortunately it wasn’t even there, it was just some parent being a cunt.
The police received the call so they had to investigate. The officer showed up after students had left, in plain clothes, and asked the library if they had the book. They said no, and he left. That was it.
Now it’s a shitshow with one side crying “police overreach” and the other side crying “censorship” when in reality not a fucking thing actually happened aside from a parent not being able to deal with their kid maybe being gay
1. Again, using words like 'Karens' and 'cunt' are not helping. That actually pushes me away from your point of view even further. They have rights to opinions and speaking up about what their kids see in school. The school said the book was not there, but how do we know they didn't remove it after initial questioning? Are you 100% sure the kid didn't see it in the library? Are you sure the parents made that story up?
2. Again, so the parent suspected their kid was gay and so they called the police and made up a story about a book in the library that caused the kid to be gay?
Just trying to follow the logic. Have a great weekend Dan.
