Wrong on so many levels

this reminds me of some recent events - drag queens were reading books to kids at a local library and people were losing their shit over it, a bunch of news coverage, etc.

and then a ton of supportive people in backlash of the original backlash. it seems kind of obvious to most sensible people - if you don't like it, don't go.

anyways, i'll use the relative anonymity of HFs to say that i wouldn't really be comfortable with that. kids are impressionable, and i just don't understand why they need to mix drag queens with children's reading. on other matters, i'm generally quite liberal.

i don't like pageants either.

 

License to have children. I'd vote that.

 

I only have an issue with it if he was pushed into it.

 

What impression are they getting? That it's OK to live that way? No one is going to do that if they were not interested anyway. All that kid sees is someone who thinks like that too and the the kid feels not alone. The men who do this are in their mom's closet at an early age regardless of who reads to them.

The vibe I get from several posts here is that we don't talk about it then it does not exist. Like something by nature wrong that kids should not see. That is sad to me as a very straight male.

 

I have a very hard time understanding an adult endorsing and applauding an eleven year old mimicking the sexuality of an adult. Do you really believe that a child not even in their teens is sexually and emotionally mature enough to know how to handle what that kind of behavior might draw to them?

 

yes kids know from an early age if they are gay or not. Any gay man will tell you he always knew even if society did not give him the words to say it. So if a straight kid sees a drag queen he will remain straight.

And there is nothing sexual about drag queens. Them being around kids does not mean sexual acts are done. Kids looks to adults for guidance. If you think it's wrong they will mirror that.

 

The point is not how drag queens affect young homosexual, straight, or transgender kids. The point is that you seem to think that a kid not even in their teens is sexually and emotionally mature enough to know how to handle what that kind of behavior might draw to them? I have a hard time believing that parents should be okay with their preteen kids using makeup and duplicating the mannerisms of an adult trying to draw the sexual attention of the opposite sex.

 

Parents are probably seeking attention. Just like the lady who named her kid ABCDE and complained when an employee kind of chuckled at it.

 

I don’t like it either but the world is changing and you have to be willing to change or get left behind.

That’s the problem with America today there are too many people pushing back which has created a social and political divide.

 

"My mind, it ain't so open, that anything can crawl right in."

 

Some mothers to av em

 

He's aight from the waist down.
This /mature/ man.

 

When the kid says that when he's not in drag he likes playing with trains... Up until then I thought he was into what he was doing but there was a subtle sense of boredom with it when he said that, like he's rather be playing with trains. Trouble is, lots of people love attention, and to be that young having everyone congratulate you and tell you how amazing and special you are.. obviously that kind of attention feels good.

I'd worry that he feels if he only plays with trains, no-one is going to tell him he is an inspiration.

But on some level he clearly enjoys it. I don't think it's as bad as some in this thread do.

 

You say it's not as bad as some of us think it is. So just how bad do you think it is? I mean, on a scale of 1 to 10.

Preteen kids using makeup, wigs, false eyelashes, and duplicating the mannerisms of an adult trying to draw the sexual attention of the opposite sex. What's wrong with that picture?

 

It's as bad as the whole mountain of shit that has come before it and continues to pile up until the world suffocates under the plastic toxic pointless waste of it all.

It doesn't stand out to me.

 

Yeah, sure. Since it pales in comparison to war, it's all good, right?

 

Sofonda Cox, Dixie Normous, Pearl Vision, Crystal Balls, Sh’needza Cox, Anya Knees, Takya Turns ..

these are just some drag names, nothing more..

 

"There's nothing sexual about drag queens"..


I almost shot oatmeal out my nose..

 

I'm not comparing it to war.