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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
why is it weird to have drag performers read to kids?
I think it's a great way to humanize the community, and to teach kids tolerance and understanding of people who live life a bit differently.
Family Junior shows "The fabulous show with fay and fluffy" and my daughter loves it.
It's fun, and she also learns life lessons, not just about gay people or drag performers, but it helps teach how to deal with different feelings (such as disappointment) and understanding and accepting people of different cultural backgrounds, too.
I'd love for you to explain to me how it's something weird. Kids are being educated on becoming better people and sometimes heck, they're just getting more story time. nothing weird about that.
It's more weird and maddening) that people are demonizing trans and drag people to the point where they're normalizing them being being threatened, beaten and killed. The hate people are teaching their kids towards a community is more "weird" than a fricking storytime with a guy in a dress.
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Most people that aren't terminally online aren't familiar enough with drag shows or the current contrived right wing argument to think through it. Storytime with a guy in the dress wouldn't bothe r most people, but outside of the right wing echo chamber and the bettles on twitter/facebook, most people don't know what this issue you're well aware of is.
There's nothing wrong with a guy in a dress reading a story to kids, and there's nothing overtly sexual in and of itself about drag in general. I think the progress made on this front is great. But most of this progress is in a social media space that most people offline aren't a part of and they move slower on progress. The bonus is they don't also have to know what Theo Fleury has to say about the matter
Ask a rando from 2006 about taking a "kid to a drag show" and people would think that's weird. Full stop.