It's very telling that you added "sexual" to "fetish" five times in the same post, when I never said it. In fact, my examples were non-sexual (mom jeans, Unfashionable dads, straight actors).
LMAO! Dude, leaving aside the overwhelming connotation of 'fetish', the conversation you were responding to besides being about people wanting to restrict all drag events to people over the age of 18 was specifically discussing Warp12's view and WWBDD's that the reason to do this is that drag is sexual. Indeed WWBDD's, deeply wrong, argument that drag is all transvestic fetishism as listed in the DSM removes all ambiguity as to what way 'fetish' was being used.
And it's pretty damn funny for you to think that there aren't a lot of people who do have sexual fetishes for the things you listed.
If you really meant to argue that drag is all a non-sexual fetish, well...
So you apparently agree that fetish and sexual fetish are different, or else why qualify it repeatedly? I think it's a strange niche for a storyteller, especially if the idea is "diversity", as claimed. Drag performances have been accepted far, far longer than actual parading sex fetishes. What I'm saying is that this is a somewhat inexplicable theme for story hours, unless the promoters have some kind of fixation on drag, that most don't feel that strongly about one way or the other, when presented as adult entertainment. It's just odd to want to have kids be ready to see...how is it being described here?... flamboyantly cross dressed men. That's a bit quirky, not to say, fixated, unless they also promote other types of normally comical attire? Or is it pretty much just parading the Drag Show that they are into?
...then you're just making another deeply silly argument. This is akin to saying 'why does this character have to be gay/black/a woman'? Reading events have many different themes and drag ones became popular because kids like the colorful outfits and characters, and get a lot of news because of the unlit candles who oppose them.
If the best you can come up with is 'you'd have to be a fetishist to combine these', that still leaves my objection intact. Your motivations and assumptions are not universal. No, one does not need to be a fetishists of any kind to happen upon that theme. Obviously.
I cosplay. One of my costumes is Freddy Fazbear from the
horror jumpscare video game 'Five Nights at Freddy's'. Every time I've worn that outfit, of an animation bear haunted by the ghosts of murdered children who come alive at night to brutally kill more people, kids come up and love it. Absolutely adore the costume. Can you see how someone could say, 'hey, that'd be a great thing to read to kids in!' without being a fetishist? No?
Again, that's a you problem.
