We shall see. After reading the body of the post, I think the person is not being sarcastic, but my sarcasm detector is sometimes insensitive and I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.
No I was not being sarcastic - more making a very wry observation of a cognitive dissonance that goes in one direction in the USA but goes in the complete opposite direction in Europe.
To be fair, there are plenty of places that agree with Conservative America’s take on camp, gay, cross-dressing and all that sort of thing. Russia, and the Islamic countries, have a hostile attitude to men dressing up as women. Down with that sort of thing! (Careful, now.)
Us Brits have grown up with cross-dressing blokes in comedy with the humour ranging from the outrageously offensive camp to Shakespearean level camp... Little Britain, Lily Savage, Kenny Everett, Dame Edna Everage, Hinge & Bracket (don’t ask). Ironically, it’s practically impossible to find any of those men being accused of pederasty no matter how filthy their stage personas were.
And didn’t America have its own celebrated cross-dessing? female impersonators even right at the beginning of the cinema industry? Like Julian Eltinge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fascinating_Widow#/media/File:Julian-Eltinge-Fascinating-Widow.jpg
We Brits can trace the ancestry of Mrs Brown’s Boys’ Agnes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et1y2XJzKjs) thru Alistair Sim (Miss Fritton in the St Trinians films), all the way back to Will Hay (Old Mother Riley, 1945 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJtP7MQCZUM). They are all different era interpretations of the exact same prop comedy routine - bloke dressed as a lady has a mishap with a thing.
In the British experience it’s actually the most apparently straight, most apparently establishment, most apparently conservative family favorites who turn out to be the worst sexual predators of all. Here, we had Jimmy Savile, Paul Francis Gadd (Gary Glitter), and Rolf Harris, pretty much got away with sexually abusing minors - amazingly, JS actually molested a girl live on camera and in front of an entire studio audience while recording Top of the Pops.
So for us, and indeed across Europe, we’re not interested in comedy camp being potentially dangerous, we’re actually interested in what IS DEFINITELY dangerous.
And we tend to think that any industry that only seems to exist to coerce underage girls into wearing age-inappropriate clothes and doing very morally questionable dances is dangerous. So, we don’t want our pre-teen girls wearing suggestive bikinis or Daisy Dukes and cropped T-shirts, we don’t want them tottering around in high heels (aka “f**k-me shoes”), and we don’t want them twerking for a pervy adult male audience. The archetypal example of that pre-teen beauty culture gone mad is the Miss Tanguita Pageant in Colombia (The “Miss Little Thong” contest).
In some conservative places in Europe, if you tried to set up a mid-Western style beauty pageant for the under-11s that would get the local child protection officers out on a full mobilisation just to make sure that the kids aren’t being put on a pervert show, but if you rang them to complain about a troupe full of camped-up transvestites doing a family show, they would tell you to stop wasting their time because there’s nothing inherently creepy about it.
