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Drag Is Never Appropriate for Kids | Opinion
Newsweek ^ | Jun 15, 2023 | Chad Felix Greene

Posted on 12/22/2023 9:09:50 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

I love drag. I have done drag. Many of my favorite celebrities are drag queens. If you asked me a decade ago what I thought of, say, RuPaul sashaying into a library in full sparkling evening gown glory to read a popular children's book to kids, I would have said it was hilarious. RuPaul's Drag Race did for drag queens what Will & Grace did for gays in the 2000s.

But something has also changed in how Americans see drag. Drag queens went from a favorite gif to add to a particularly sassy tweet to the manifestation of everything conservative Americans fear about LGBTQ activism, especially toward children.

It might seem easy to dismiss these concerns as an overreaction or even as an expression of bigotry, but conservatives are right about this one......

Rather than appreciate this distinction, activists have doubled down and declared their adult entertainment world not only suitable for kids, but necessary and educational. LGBTQ activism has distorted whatever playful and innocent fun a sultry and perfectly poised RuPaul could bring to the room into another act of social rebellion designed to mock and provoke parents and conservative America.

By its very nature, drag is already unsuitable for children, based on the culture it flourished in and the way the artform communicates to its audience. It barely translates outside of the LGBTQ cultural bubble. The more you remove these elements, the less it resembles drag and the more it looks like advocacy for something kids just shouldn't be exposed to. You take away the cursing, the sexual inuendo, the revealing clothes, the provocative dress and the sharp political commentary, and you are left with an adult man in a dress mocking women and trying to convince children he is an ambassador for an entire community.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: childabuse; children; drag; dragfags; dragqueens; gayindoctrination; gayness
Older article, but a search did not find it posted on FR.

One film I enjoy is the Rocky Horror Picture Show, really great to watch the cultists in a theater. But no way should this drag crap be in schools to indoctrinate children.

1 posted on 12/22/2023 9:09:50 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

kids concidering it should see a psychiatrist like bob newhart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhQGzeiYS_Q


2 posted on 12/22/2023 9:13:48 AM PST by Bob434
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3 posted on 12/22/2023 9:15:59 AM PST by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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Drag? Guess it’s a generational thing. For me, drag means souped-up jalopies racing each other.


4 posted on 12/22/2023 9:24:28 AM PST by ryderann
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I never liked clowns, Santa, or drag. Even as a very young child I was leery of attention getters. I think it’s in the genes. Seems to run in the family.


5 posted on 12/22/2023 9:25:01 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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I have zero, zilch, nada problems with drag, drag shows, drag queens. Just like I have no problem with R rated movies, and other adult entertainment. That is what it is though - ADULT entertainment. Why are some people so insistent that mere babies be exposed to adult themes and sexual content?


6 posted on 12/22/2023 9:25:24 AM PST by SoftballMominVA (No longer in VA. Living the OBX life now!)
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I always thought drag humor was the weakest part of any comedy troupe’s repertoire. I think of Monty Python skits and the drag ones were the weakest. Same with Kids in the Hall. Most drag shows seem to be primarily gay men ridiculing women, similar to blackface humor.


7 posted on 12/22/2023 9:29:01 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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Drag comes from dressed as girl in the margins of Shakespeare.

Women were not allowed, obv men played the women’s parts.

Far cry from mental whackos openly expressing their perversions.


8 posted on 12/22/2023 9:32:38 AM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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It’s as though the old video stores had an ‘adult’ section for 18 and older....or something.

The pervs can’t help themselves and they’re shielded by and hide inside the ‘LGBTQ community’. Say anything and you’re a ‘bigot’. It’s just disgusting...and they won’t stop, even if there’s certain members, such as this writer, that realize it.


9 posted on 12/22/2023 9:37:54 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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Nice old song to go with it.

Kind of a Drag by the Buckinghams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq1fpN1qWv8


10 posted on 12/22/2023 11:02:10 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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June 22, 2022 story....
Nessel made the comments during a speech at a civil rights conference in Lansing, according to Craig Mauger of The Detroit News. Nessel is the first openly gay person to be elected to a statewide office in Michigan.

‘Drag queens make everything better. Drag queens are fun,’ Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says at a civil rights conference in Lansing while speaking out against what she describes as efforts to divide people,” Mauger writes in his tweet. “’A drag queen for every school,’ she adds.
In a follow-up tweet, Mauger says Nessel admitted the “drag queen for every school” suggestion had not been “poll tested.”
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Sick.


11 posted on 12/22/2023 11:05:05 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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drag can be a hilarious form of comedy
For Adults

it is, however, obviously inappropriate for little kids

teachers who feed it to children should be fired along with the school administrator(S)


12 posted on 12/22/2023 12:23:16 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Really? A remarkably courageous and stunning admission.


13 posted on 12/22/2023 2:12:30 PM PST by Theophilus 7
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Drag is ok for kids as long as long as it's portrayed as the subject of mockery, scorn and ridicule.

I remember, as a kid, seeing Milton Berle and Flip Wilson in a dress and lipstick. It was the subject of laughter because it was, is and should be absurd and ridiculous to see a man dressing and acting like a woman.

The problem arises when it's presented to kids as a valid choice and needs to be understood and accepted for the sake of tolerance and diversity.

14 posted on 12/22/2023 2:22:53 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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The whole article boils down to "the slippery slope of evil invariably leads to greater evil ... and the conservatives were right about it ..." but the author still refuses to recognize it as evil.


15 posted on 12/22/2023 3:20:59 PM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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