Drag Shows!!

[xjx388]

So, another vote for no age-appropriate restrictions, like a young child being accompanied by a parent or guardian? Too restrictive, huh?

Do you have any evidence that there are young kids going to drag shows on their own without their parents? Do you really think the drag brunch in the video you linked to would have just allowed a bunch of kids to walk in without their parents? This simply doesn’t happen.

It’s a solution in search of a problem

And let’s be clear, the activists are not fighting for a “parental accompaniment” restriction. They want this stuff classified as “sexually oriented,” and kids to be legally excluded, parent or no.

I think we would all agree that the venues/shows should warn parents about content. We just don’t want conservative viewpoints being the basis of a law that says more liberal parents can’t even make a decision for themselves.
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[Robin]

Uhh...it is a drag show, as this thread is devoted to. It was posted to Twitter with association to the activist group noted in the OP. Children were allowed to attend, with supervision.

I think that covers it.

So it was incidental was it.

Are you saying the video was not intended to further any point you were making.

 

[Robin]

I really love the predictability of some of these responses.

Just as we really appreciate the predictability of you echoing currently fashionable right wing talking points.

First, numerous liberals will express that they do not want any age-appropriate restrictions on any events/materials. Essentially attempting to invalidate all of the concerns that conservatives have for their own children.

Had anyone here suggested that?????..

We're saying don't restrict events purely on the basis that they are drag shows.

And incidentally, many conservatives also oppose age restrictions to events saying it a parents prerogative to decide.

 

[acbytesla]

Do you have any evidence that there are young kids going to drag shows on their own without their parents? Do you really think the drag brunch in the video you linked to would have just allowed a bunch of kids to walk in without their parents? This simply doesn’t happen.

It’s a solution in search of a problem
And let’s be clear, the activists are not fighting for a “parental accompaniment” restriction. They want this stuff classified as “sexually oriented,” and kids to be legally excluded, parent or no.

I think we would all agree that the venues/shows should warn parents about content. We just don’t want conservative viewpoints being the basis of a law that says more liberal parents can’t even make a decision for themselves.

Exactly!

I've seen about a dozen drag shows and every single one was at a nightclub which you couldn't even get in the front door unless you were 21. Every single one.

Where exactly are young children seeing drag shows? And what exactly would the harm be if they did? I notice that Warp refuses to address these questions.

Warp reminds me of The Music Man

Trouble. Oh we got trouble
Right here in River City
With a capital "T" and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool

We've surely got trouble
Right here in River City
Gotta figure out a way to keep the young ones moral after school
Our children's children gonna have trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble.

How are you not clutching pearls making something out of nothing?

Please demonstrate there is actually a problem as opposed to fomenting hatred and bigotry.

 

[Robin]

Again, what exactly is the problem with children attending a drag show, one which doesn't include sexually explicit material?

 

[Robin]

And yes, anyone who wants to ban children from going into any kind of drag show is motivated by bigotry and not by concern for the welfare of children.

 

[Robin]

Where exactly are young children seeing drag shows?

There are drag events which are tailored to be family friendly.

Also there was an incident, Warp showed the video, of a mother who took her child to a sexually explicit event, despite being told in clear terms by the organiser that the material was not suitable for children.

There is no harm to children at all in seeing a drag act, provided it does not contain sexually explicit material.

 

[bruto]

Just as we really appreciate the predictability of you echoing currently fashionable right wing talking points.


Had anyone here suggested that?????..

We're saying don't restrict events purely on the basis that they are drag shows.

And incidentally, many conservatives also oppose age restrictions to events saying it a parents prerogative to decide.

It is, of course, one of the ironies of modern politics that so many conservatives will rally behind a pistol-packing dominatrix when she dilates on the dangers of a liberal nanny state. Wrap it in red white and blue and "there oughtta be a law" becomes the cry of freedom.

 

[Parsman]

Warp gets turned on by drag performers so he is worried his kids will too? Just saying...

 

[3point14]

Who said that might not be an issue? But this is a thread about drag shows/events, many of which are aimed directly at children.

Well that doesn't work.

"Show me the shows your worried about"

"Here's a show with explicit sexual content"

"That show had a warning for parents"

"Oh, I'm talking about drag shows aimed at children"

 

[W.D.Clinger]

It never ceases to amaze me that those who complain the loudest about their 'freedoms', about 'personal responsibility' and keeping the government out of their private lives are also those who are demanding government control of women's reproduction, banning books not to their personal approval in school libraries, CRT being taught in schools when it's not, forbidding teachers to discuss anything related to non-straight, non-cisgender people, and a host of other things. Hypocrisy, thy name is right-wing.

I admire your capacity for amazement.

It's been a long time since I've been amazed by Warp12 and his fellow travellers doing stuff like that.

 

[sackett]

Now just hold on. Warp said that numerous libberulz WILL express stuff he and I don't like. He didn't say they had yet, so him and me we don't need to come up with no leftie namby pansy evidence!

Something else you liberal stinkos better ponder: If you spam that GOD-fearing Texas site, there's ways you can be traced back along the inner net all the way to your moms' basements. You might hear a little knock or two on your door some evening, n it won't be Santy Clause.

That's tellin em, right, Warp? Muh?

 

[Stout]

TIL in Texas, you can take a child to a restricted movie. You can't do that around here, restricted means over 18 only, no exceptions.

I'n no stranger to laughing at weird woke **** and I've been following this "issue" for a while now. It's been rather disappointing with the lack of, or poor quality of, examples of dragsters getting all sexual with children.

There's a bit in here. Feminist Current: Why do children need ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’? but it's not much and there's probably no higher incidences of dragsters doing pedo that there is of sports coaches doing pedo.

I seriously doubt drag is turning kids gay or trans however I am open to the idea that trans might be the new Anorexia nervosa.

 

[catsmate]

Is there a Sons of Confederate Veterans office in Texas?

Yes.

 

[catsmate]

Age appropriate by whose opinion?

And does that apply to bring married off?

 

[acbytesla]

There are drag events which are tailored to be family friendly.

Also there was an incident, Warp showed the video, of a mother who took her child to a sexually explicit event, despite being told in clear terms by the organiser that the material was not suitable for children.

There is no harm to children at all in seeing a drag act, provided it does not contain sexually explicit material.

I'm sure there are. But it is highly unlikely an 8 year old is going to stumble upon it.

But seeing Some Like it Hot did not make me want to undergo sexual reassignment.

 

[Venom]

I wish "antifa" was as big as Radical Right talking heads make them out to be. So there will be more of them to defend these events from domestic terrorists hiding behind freedom of assembly.

 

[TragicMonkey]

But seeing Some Like it Hot make me want to undergo sexual reassignment.

Any excuse to leave the theater.

 

[The Atheist]

(Me, seeing a poster's new avatar)

 

[bruto]

I'm sure there are. But it is highly unlikely an 8 year old is going to stumble upon it.

But seeing Some Like it Hot did not make me want to undergo sexual reassignment.

Interesting reference, because I saw Some Like it Hot when it first came out, and I was about 11 or 12; and though I was soon to become a disgustingly horny adolescent who would, if not constrained by ethics and shyness, have done just about anything with just about anybody, I also recall that I was always pretty firmly in the cisgendered heterosexual camp, and Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in drag did not steer me away, nor did the machine gunning violence turn me into a mass murderer, nor were my poor raging hormones derailed by the ending, which I thought then and still think was just good and funny.