178K folowers on Instagram, low engagement rate, Mom probably bought fake followers.
Posted on 06/30/2019 8:07:49 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
You may perhaps have heard about the preteen drag performer who goes by the name “Desmond Is Amazing.” Desmond Napoles is an online sensation who’s appeared on “Good Morning America” and has become a cause célèbre among the LGBT community.
In January, a bit of a cultural scuffle happened that may have gone under the radar.
Desmond, who is managed by his parents, appeared in December, at the age of 11, at the 3 Dollar Bill, a New York City establishment that is either a “gay bar” (the description used by The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher) or “a queer, multifunctional performance space” (Out’s Devin-Norielle).
Desmond, after his performance, was tipped by members of the audience, leading commentators like Dreher to say it was “a manifestation of pedophilia, straight up.”
Devin-Norielle blamed Dreher — and all of perfidious “conservative media” — for “unleash[ing] a firestorm of misleading and fabricated news articles claiming that Desmond’s work as a drag performer is child abuse because, they claim, his performances are sexual and he receives tips.”
“These arguments are dangerous; conservative media has associated Desmond’s performance of drag with sexuality simply because he transgresses the binary and opts to express his femininity,” Devin-Norielle wrote. “Newsflash: gender identity and sexuality are not one and the same. Desmond’s exploration and toying of gender is not a discovery of his sexual attractions, nor is it a tactic to invite the sexual desires of others.”
Fast forward to June, and Desmond’s mother — who, again, helps manage the child’s career — is now outraged that her son’s performance “invite[d] the sexual desires of others.”
I warn readers that we’re going to get into some rather disturbing territory here. I’d just as soon not report on it and I think most individuals would just as soon not read what’s been said about Desmond. That being said, there’s a reason why we need to examine this.
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“Just check out this introductory video on YouTube. No wonder 11-year-old Desmond Napoles and other kids daringly diving into drag culture right now have provoked right-wing reactionaries into paroxysms of moral outrage,” O’Carroll writes.
“Let’s face it, when a pretty young boy tells the world he is gay and dances sensuously in front of grown men, wearing vampish dresses and makeup; when ‘she’ strips off items of clothing or goes on stage scantily clad right from the off; when dollar bills are accepted as ‘tips’ from an audience apparently wild with excitement; when all this is going on we are getting far more than just a celebration of gender diversity or an innocent display of precocious performance talent.
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He makes her MONEY! Period!
The thing that never ceases to amaze me is how much the news is dominated by the antics of such a tiny sliver of the US population.
I would say this even if I was pro-gay, which as a Christian and a conservative I certainly am not.
But as a retired editor, my 25 years of news judgment would lead me to downgrade gay news as being of little relevance to the vast majority of straights.
On the other hand, readers do like their share of cheap thrills — and that the gay boys and bull dykes certainly provide. Not my kind of news, but I can understand the tabloid appeal.
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Child Abuse.
https://twitter.com/desmond_amazing
4K FOLLOWERS. FOLLOWING MORE THAN FOLLOWERS. THIS KID MUST NOT BE TOO POPULAR.
Parents should be horsewhipped.
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online sensation?
Following
4,965
Followers
4,457
Remember when the world was shocked by the “dancing boys” in Afghanistan?
Now how many years later and the media is celebrating “dancing boys”?
178K folowers on Instagram, low engagement rate, Mom probably bought fake followers.
The parents are ‘pimping out their son’ so what did they expect!
More like brown eye for the queer guy.
Same type of Mom that would allow a sleepover at Neverland ranch. Exact same type.
Teach dem young.
Words fail me. Someone post Captain Renault picture.
A Boston area podcast show, Renegade Radio, discussed when this kid was on the Today Show or some similar program, with a bunch of other “drag” pervs. The audience was applauding this behavior. The hosts of the show were incredulous as to why the audience found this entertaining and good, and why the mother wasn’t arrested.
We are living in a cultural cesspool.
Weimar Republic? Sodom and Gomorrah? Death spiral of a country.
Welcome to the wonderful world of perversion, isn’t it cute?
By the video I saw of mom & dad, I’d say dad is probably the first pedo to lust for desmond.
That still goes on in many rural areas. I always thought they were creepy. It’s one thing for a preteen to play “dress up as an adult” at home but for the adults to dress the preteen up with makeup too and try to make them look like an adult, parade them in a contest that’s basically a “my daughter is prettier than yours “ competition is just weird.
Thought experiment: suppose the parents of an 11 year old girl had her performing burlesque at a bar, with men putting dollar bills down her dress. What would the reaction of Child protective services be?
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