On the drag thing, maybe I'm like, weird, but I always thought it was pretty clearly adult entertainment- smutty performances that flirt with sexuality. It's a completely different hemisphere from 'appropriate for children'.
What would you say to a kid who, after seeing Mrs Moonshine Titterly at the kids library event, wants to see them at their next show (at the 18+ gay bar)? Why not?
No other entertainment could be on regular set at a sex shop event night and then play for children.
It seems like this point is as obvious as transwomen being men- we can all see it, but people who could stop the drag kids events aren't saying it, because calling it predatory is, in all instances, transphobic and homophobic (is how it's described and what they'll be immediately reprimanded with). And people literally cannot afford to lose their jobs.
It's confusing to know who actually pushes the drag queen story time/child drag stuff. Possibly a combination of people too immature and naive to understand common sense child safeguarding and aren't old enough to have kids of their own yet (so don't actually think about what makes things child appropriate and dgaf anyway), and people very very interested in pushing the boundaries of 'childhood bodily autonomy' (eg some of the weirdos in critical Childhood studies)
Either way it just seems like it's obviously so, so inappropriate for kids, but I don't know if that's the consensus. It just seems so obviously predatory.
ETA: aaaand it happened. Children invited to gay bar to watch drag show, encouraged to tip performers at 'Child Pride event'
Videos of ‘drag queens’ performing provocatively for an audience of children at a bar are going viral on Twitter, prompting massive backlash and raising concerns about child safeguarding. On June 4, Mr. Misster Bar and Lounge, a gay bar located in Dallas, Texas, hosted a three-hour event...
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