I don't get it.
Why did drag queens reading to kids become a thing?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 31, 2022 5:17 AM |
Theres a tradition of drag queens in pantomime "Dame Twanky" is the character and kind of an exaggerated Mother Goose type.
I HAD assumed Drag Queen Storytime would be something like that before I saw the one with the dildo on his head.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 26, 2022 11:22 PM |
Repulsive!
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 26, 2022 11:24 PM |
I blame straight people who have never been to a gay club but watched Rupauls Drag Race and thought drag never went above a PG rating.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 26, 2022 11:25 PM |
I think when AGPs infiltrated.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 26, 2022 11:27 PM |
I had never heard of it until Republicans started screaming about it. And I know plenty of drag queens. Go figure.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 26, 2022 11:32 PM |
[quote] I know plenty of drag queens.
Do they display their panties to toddlers, R5?
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 26, 2022 11:35 PM |
R5 Yeah, I know lots of drag queens too and not one of them ever mentioned reading to kids, which is one of the reasons this "trend" is so odd to me. In fact, most of them hate kids, so I can't imagine any of them voluntarily spending time with children.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 26, 2022 11:35 PM |
I think its a woke, middle class parent thing. "Oh look how open minded and cool we are."
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 26, 2022 11:37 PM |
[quote] I know lots of drag queens too and not one of them ever mentioned reading to kids,
That sound sensible.
And librarians are supposed to be sensible. So why do some of them seek out exhibitionists flashing their penises in panties to impressionable children?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 26, 2022 11:44 PM |
What’s interesting is that all these kids’ mothers are fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race but the subjects of drag kids and drag queen story hour have never been brought up in any of the many iterations of the show. I think that’s RuPaul’s doing - he probably wants to distance himself from that.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 26, 2022 11:45 PM |
"I know lots of drag queens too and not one of them ever mentioned reading to kids"
I know lots of drag queens too and not one of them ever mentioned reading.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 26, 2022 11:58 PM |
"What’s interesting is that all these kids’ mothers are fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race but the subjects of drag kids and drag queen story hour have never been brought up in any of the many iterations of the show."
RuPaul has a cartoon about drag kids - it's called Drag Tots.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 27, 2022 10:59 AM |
I think it was about ten years ago that this little weird middle aged lesbian in Park Slope who was a Librarian told me she had been put in charge of bringing drag queens into Brooklyn public libraries to read to kids. She was enthused about in the way morons who always support the next thing are. I thought "This is her job?" and "This is a shitty idea. It will not end well." But I said to her "Oh, that's great!"
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 27, 2022 11:07 AM |
It was very similar when, at the beginning of the I Am Jazz thing, another Librarian told me about promoting that to children in the library. I thought "What the fuck? This will not end well." But I said to her "Oh, that's interesting. "
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 27, 2022 11:10 AM |
[quote] little weird middle aged
These municipal librarians are PAID to be weird and little and to do what WE want.
They're NOT paid to push their agenda onto us.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 27, 2022 11:10 AM |
Because fraus are very stupid, clout chasing, performative goblins with zero impulse control, and no coherent or logical inner monologue.
They’re basically all born intellectually disabled, yet they truly believe they are authorities on the vast swaths of life with which they have either no or only the most childlike familiarity with.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 27, 2022 11:13 AM |
R16, the intellectually disabled one is you.
And "fraus" are the ones screaming about this because they think gays a threat to kids. Smart, open-minded people are fine with this.
R8 and r13 are probably from Patriot Front or the Proud Boys
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 27, 2022 11:16 AM |
R17, I just saw where this all was going to end, my brah.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 27, 2022 11:20 AM |
Drag queens are mainstream and have been for ages. RuPaul and drag queens were popular in the counterculture in the 1990s, and mainstream by 2009 when "Drag Race" started, so you've got a bunch of GenXers and Millennials who are parents now and who see no problem with their kids watching drag queens. And there isn't a problem with it these days; this is not the drag culture of decades past. Drag -- at least in the context of library events -- means someone dressed up in a costume.
What's happening is that the rightwingers have been trying to rejuvenate their attacks on LGBTs. They changed tactics after Obergefell because directly attacking gays and gay marriage wasn't a vote-getter, so they went after trans instead, as a kind of Trojan Horse to get back into a full-on attack on all LGBTs. Part of the way they're doing that is by equating drag with trans.
They've made some gains in mainstreaming the idea that trans are evil rapist predator pedos, mostly via the social media-to-Fox News pipeline. LibsofTikTok posts a video with commentary, and those videos that really take off end up on Tucker Carlson.
Most of that propaganda basically says "gay men in drag are exactly the same as trans, they dress up as women to sexualize children and because of a psychopathic fetish, this is why drag queen story hour is grooming your kids to be raped by evil trans and gays, and why gays shouldn't be allowed to teach, and why we have to protect the children" etc. etc.
The end result is that you get groups of rightwingers who are recruited on social media to go to a library, hospital, school, or what have you and scream "protect the children" while they hold up signs saying "GAY IS PEDO." They often have guns with them, too, because of course they do.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 27, 2022 11:26 AM |
[quote]I just saw where this all was going to end, my brah.
"My brah"? Christ. The only gay from Brooklyn who would ever be this embarrassing is Edwwin. Since you're all over the political threads complaining about Democrats, I'll assume that's who you are.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 27, 2022 11:30 AM |
Drag queens are essentially sexualized. Not appropriate for children. I'm not taking men in drag (eg Monty Python) but Drag QUEENS, a phenomenon which grew out of entertainment in gay bars. Which is what these are.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 27, 2022 11:31 AM |
Librarians were tired of being dismissed as boring and helpful.
They now want to be "groovy" and annoying.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 27, 2022 11:35 AM |
[quote]Smart, open-minded people are fine with this.
Nobody is fine with this.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 27, 2022 11:39 AM |
Librarians should stick to explaining the Dewey Decimal System.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 27, 2022 11:40 AM |
R19 types trans.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 27, 2022 11:51 AM |
Adults like to put duct tape on little boy’s junk.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 27, 2022 11:59 AM |
[quote]Adults like to put duct tape on little boy’s junk.
I cannot believe you are the same bitch who whined that the "art of conversation is dead."
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 27, 2022 12:01 PM |
R19 Fucking finally someone who gets it.
[quote]a kind of Trojan Horse to get back into a full-on attack on all LGBTs.
This is why we get 7372847 trans threads a day and these retards to go along with it R25 R26 thinking they're being sneaky. I want a second round of COVID to cull the mongoloid population.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 27, 2022 12:01 PM |
"mongoloid" is a racist term
by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 27, 2022 12:02 PM |
R29 Shut it retard.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 27, 2022 12:04 PM |
Drag Queens are histrionic, so they will do anything that brings them attention.
The cunts who hired the drag queens live, rudderless, in an echo chamber bubble of social media, in a woke-lite garbage patch, on the swirling sea of the zeitgeist. Some stupid cunt thought drag queens in schools and libraries was clever and recherché and everyone lobbed on because.... LEMMINGS.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 27, 2022 12:15 PM |
It’s a provocation disguised as enlightened thinking.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 27, 2022 12:33 PM |
Drag queens are the new clowns, while fat OP is still fat.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 27, 2022 12:41 PM |
That's interesting, R12, but I'm 99% sure Drag Tots has not been referenced on any of the Drag Race shows.
I'll add another point: in just about every Drag Race season, there is a makeover challenge where the contestants have to put an outsider in drag. Sometimes the outsiders are women but most often they're men. Dads, straight athletes, gay athletes, gay veterans, eldergays, gay refugees, straight husbands-to-be, etc. As of 2022 they have not had kids coming in to be made over, but I'd put money on the idea having been bandied about by a well-meaning but braindead producer, and that bright idea being vetoed.
I'd also have to disagree with R19 on drag becoming mainstream by 2009 with the advent of the show. The show started off on Logo, a niche channel with limited reach, and didn't move to VH1 until five years ago for its ninth season. Not long after that, coincidentally or not, things like Drag Queen Story Hour really started taking off.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 27, 2022 1:46 PM |
R22 is accurate.
Librarians are fifth column frau freaks these days.
Insufferable.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 27, 2022 11:34 PM |
R35 I don't care if frau freaks want to be frau freaks.
But not if I'm paying their ages. And not if they're trying to indoctrinate those who can't think for themselves.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 29, 2022 12:13 AM |
OP it's as simple as this for cultural warriors:
Give em an inch...you know the rest.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 29, 2022 12:19 AM |
Priests are well known pedophiles, yet they let them read to their kids with no issue. Priests, nuns and other clergy are avid porn watchers. Even the Pope admitted this.
Stupid ass child pageants are also disgusting, imo, forcing their pre-pubescent toddler daughters to dress up like little whores. You don't see any complaints about that either. Then they go on to compete in Miss America pageants so perverts like tRump can grope them. Talk about "grooming".
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 29, 2022 12:37 AM |
^ Not to mention, religious institutions are tax exempt.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 29, 2022 12:38 AM |
R38 You haven't watched the second half of this
by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 29, 2022 12:45 AM |
I had assumed it originated as a well-meant way to send a message that you don’t have to fear people who seem to be different from you: “Here are men in dresses, reading to kids, doing no harm.”
And I thought that anyone who expected it to be received that way was a dreamer.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 29, 2022 12:50 AM |
Now I changed sex I can act as slutty as I want.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 30, 2022 2:17 AM |
President Biden gets down with a 50s housewife lookalike T-Gal!
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 31, 2022 3:57 AM |
I went to a few drag performances in NYC back in the late 70s, one at a particularly good restaurant for Cuban food, best seafood Paella I ever had, but the drag performance just consisted of imitating Cher and others. Well done but nothing off color at all. It was really art.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 31, 2022 4:05 AM |
[quote] It was really art.
It may have been art in the 1970s but now it's a tool to entice babies into lewd behaviour.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 31, 2022 4:07 AM |
Drag isn’t meant for kids. If these people want to read to kids, do it without the costume. Drag is adult. I’ve never seen a single drag queen who wasn’t vulgar. Funny, yes, but vulgar. It’s fine for adults, not children.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 31, 2022 4:29 AM |
R45
I agree. I was just trying to point out this was what it was, and now it’s gotten into this. I am no expert on the history of it all but I think it was nothin like what it has become. Really it could be I was misled back then to think it was just an art because now it seems to be a haven for pedophiles.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 31, 2022 5:17 AM |