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mikeyHustle t1_jdn3k8o wrote

You're reading sex into places where it isn't. You're the one pushing sex into these situations. The drag performers aren't acting sexually. The kids aren't perceiving any sex. They're hearing average childrens' stories read by people doing performance art.

You don't understand the difference between sex and gender, and your comment is getting very violent about it.

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Yen-sama t1_jdnb637 wrote

Men dressing in women's clothing for theater is a centuries-old phenomenon. It's not a fetish, it is an art form.

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BethiIdes89 t1_jdndd0d wrote

Drag is in no way a fetish. People do drag for a ton of reasons. Could someone do drag as a fetish? Sure. But it's in no way inherent to what drag is and certainly isn't happening 99% of the time. If you read a book, watched an episode of Drag Race, watched "Paris is Burning," or just talked to a drag queen, you'd know that. But instead you'd prefer to call them all pedophiles, which is horrifying and hateful. A drag queen making sexually lewd jokes at an adult show does not mean they're a pedophile or trying to evoke anything other than a laugh. And not all drag queens make sexually lewd jokes.

You don't know what you're talking about, and I don't think you're interested in learning. You can't come to a conversation in good faith by calling an entire group of people pedophiles. Educate yourself or mind your own business. And if you're actually interested in protecting kids, go talk to a CPS worker about the reality of what child abuse actually is in this state.

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BethiIdes89 t1_jdnk3dw wrote

No, you're not listening. Again, you're assuming people do drag as a kink/for sexual gratification. That's not the reality. There are lots of reasons to do drag--entertainment, commenting on gender stereotypes, getting to express a part of yourself that doesn't conform to what's traditionally expected of your gender (there is such a thing as drag kings), political activism, and making money as a performer, to name a few reasons.

If a drag queen is doing a library reading for kids or some other event where there's a high likelihood of kids being present, they're not making sexual jokes or comments. If a drag queen makes those jokes at an evening show for adults and a kid happens to be there, that is not on the drag queen. That's on the parents for bringing their kids to a show that's not meant for kids. If a kid goes to a sexually explicit movie that depicts straight people, is it the filmmakers and actors' trying to enact a fetish on those kids? Or does that only apply if the movie depicts gay people?

You're relying on old, harmful stereotypes of gay people as pedophiles, whether or not you recognize it. Most adults-- gay, straight, and everything else out there--are sexual beings, and we all say sexual things and sometimes talk about it in performances, movies, books, etc. Is this inherently enacting on a fetish?

And to answer why drag queens are performing in front of kids, for example, reading a book at a library, it's about kids learning about acceptance of people different from them and because drag queens are like walking cartoon characters and that's fun for kids.

Again, you probably should try to learn about what is actually happening instead of making generalized statements that are based on stereotypes meant to demonize and harm a group of people.

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BethiIdes89 t1_jdnlh7n wrote

if you're not willing to actually have a conversation and back up anything you say, fine. But I hope for your kids and my kids' sakes that if they one day turn out to be gay and want to do drag, that you can still love them and treat them a full human beings.

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SeptasLate t1_jdo1x0r wrote

Where are you that you can't currently keep your kids away from drag story time without the government protecting you?

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Thisfuckingwebsite t1_jdnlnbz wrote

They do it in front of kids for the same reason you let kids watch you at the doctors - to show that there is nothing to fear

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TherabbitTrix0 t1_jdpx2uj wrote

Where is the group of drag performers that say they MUST perform in front of kids?

Why were alter severs only allowed to be young boys for so many years…hmm. I can’t stand people arguing about drag performers when there is a whole other group of people that are abusing kids.

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PettyAndretti t1_jdn3wxq wrote

Just thinking about that show “To Catch A Predator” and how they exposed husbands, fathers, police, firemen, faith leaders, & community leaders. But NEVER a Drag Queen…

But yea man, woodchippers, fuck yea

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Yen-sama t1_jdnbhgr wrote

Plenty of examples of white, straight, god-loving men that end up being sexual predators and pedophiles too. 🤔

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Yen-sama t1_jdnczbw wrote

Okay, but we aren't out here attacking and outlawing that entire demographic as a whole, even when the chances of a child being abused by that demographic is much higher than a child being abused by someone from the drag community.

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BethiIdes89 t1_jdnmpwi wrote

Hey, guys, we've been doing government wrong! We should all just trust this guy and base all policies that impact people like him on his gut nstead of evidence and experience!

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Thisfuckingwebsite t1_jdnlz2b wrote

So you must want to ban church and christianity then, too, right?

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Thisfuckingwebsite t1_jdnnvzg wrote

Agreed but since you seemingly want to ban all transgenders from (existing? i guess) around kids because some (which youve failed to cite or identify) allegdly groomed or abused kids

So logically, more than just the individuals in the church, to be consistent with your stance on transgenders, you must be against all of Christianity right?

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Thisfuckingwebsite t1_jdnq520 wrote

Nah you just delete comments when your weak ass idiot thoughts get exposed. Theres a reason nobody respects you,. Its because of who you are, as a person

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Thisfuckingwebsite t1_jdnrhs1 wrote

I love dem pedos

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Thisfuckingwebsite t1_jdnsw34 wrote

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PURE galaxy brain. Keep it up fatty you are cracking me up

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