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Tea spilled
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Also,CSS is hard.
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Are those real balloons? Jesus Christ that's a lot of setup lol
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Spite is a hell of a motivator
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Photoshop is environmentally friendly
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I mean… you've seen what feats they can pull off with their own appearance, right?
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Really? lol
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The British take their kids to drag shows every Christmas
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Only facts here.
Seeing a man in a dress is so harmless it used to be mainstream children's entertainment.
I don't know how Christians can't see how much more regressive they've gotten in the past 30 years.
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I don't know how Christians can't see how much more regressive they've gotten in the past 30 years.
Seriously, they seem to want overshoot with some ill conceived idea.
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Christianity has always sucked
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Religion has always sucked.
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Disclaimer, this isn't true for everyone, but as somebody raised southern baptist, I think this image is missing the point.
The biggest risk for Christian parents having their kid go to a drag show is they might end up questioning Christianity, and rejecting it.
They're not wrong about that risk, just about the morality of it. They want to have their kid indoctrinated, but only into the things that believe. They see anything that takes their child away from Christianity as evil.
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The ones in society screaming about indoctrination the most these days are just projecting. They want to be doing the indoctrination and any risk to that is "indoctrination".
Universities? Indoctrination. Queer people existing? Indoctrination.
Yikes
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This.
Those kids might realize that there's people out there who don't do what the bible says - they crossdress, they're gay, they don't go to church, they don't believe in god - and yet, they're good people.
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This unlocked a memory for me.
When I finally saw out and proud queer people, I was fascinated. So many were nice and they were happy. I wanted to go with them!
My dad would always be fuming. "Those people flaunting their disgusting lifestyle."
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The Bible isn't against any of those things. They chose to make their interpretation disagree with reality and now they have to constantly defend against reality.
Point is, it's a hard life being dishonest. That's why there's a rule against lying in that book.
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We call people who don't do what the Bible says Christians.
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Yep, there's a verse in Romans that shook me to my core as a church boy because Paul famous hater of women and gentiles, was saying that my priests and bishops were wrong and there were still good people out there literally separate (as we Christians see it at least) from God, and yet still reflecting that ineffable glory as an expression of themselves. Personally, though, those thoughts led me to Christian humanism and Humanitarianism as a movement at large which were also bad because of multi-cultural indoctrination lol. I think the organized church is just holding itself back from appreciating the fullness of creation and God by dragging its feet, ignoring that Christ never told us to condemn all things.
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That's a risk for the parent not the child.
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Yes, and it's driving the parents actions.
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anything that takes their child away from Christianity
so like… thinking?
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They hate that too
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Those heels look deadly to me
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They can break a gun in half.
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Why is it a big deal if parents don't want their kids near drag queens?
And why do drag queens want to be near kids?
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Have you ever been to a kid centric drag show? They are a blast! There's a lot of overlap with traditional clowning and kids love the silly Princesess and over the top characters. It's also a safe way to show kids that gender presentation can be playful. A lot of drag queens who do kids shows love the wholesome vibes of dancing, reading to kids and being silly with little chaos munchkins just like any other performer who works with children. It's the same reasons some folk become Clowns, Santa Clauses or Easter Bunnies.
If you don't want to bring kids to a drag act that is your choice. Walk on by. Nobody is forcing anyone to bring their kid to a drag act, quite frankly nobody wants a sourpuss in the audience...but the issue is that a lot of parents and religious people who "don't want kids around drag queens" are taking that choice away from parents who want their kids to try that experience. They aren't making that decision for their kids they are taking that experience away from everyone by making those events unsafe or cancelling them through interference.
Nobody is throwing tantrums that some parents don't want that experience for their kids. Nobody cares. It doesn't impact them in the least if they just don't participate. It's like the same level of don't care if you told them you are not going to a jazz festival or something. They might say "well you are missing out on a good time' but it's not like it really matters.
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Yea, I don't like that some parents try to force their beliefs on others. Or even their religion.
And no, I have never been to one, but my cousin was flamboyant like that, and he was one my favorite cousins. Always cheered me up.
Thanks for answering my question. I appreciate your perspective. And thank you for not jumping down my throat with a bunch of threats and hostilities lol
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If parents don’t want their kids around drag shows that’s fine, don’t take their kids to drag shows. If they don’t want any kids at all to ever be exposed to drag performers then they need to mind their own damned business.
Drag performers are entertainers, not sex workers, the performances run the gambit from burlesque down to just karaoke and show tunes, just because they aren’t strictly child entertainers and that some drag shows aren’t appropriate for children it doesn’t mean there is no such thing as child appropriate drag shows. People make adult oriented entertainment with puppets and cartoons, that doesn’t mean every form of entertainment involving puppets or cartoons is inappropriate for children. I remember going to one of those drag restaurants a few times as a kid where they do song performances and stay in character while they serve you and take your orders, it was a blast.
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So they can normalize acceptance of drag queens when the human mind is at its most impressionable. If you're going to influence a person's worldview, childhood is the most effective time.
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You know, it's totally possible to like to be around kids and not be a pedophile.
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I'm just asking for a different perspective. It was a genuine question lol
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For the same reason some grown men like to see little boys wear dresses.
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Don’t bring religion into this.
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in my country it is mostly muslims harassing drag and queer
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Yeah, extremist lunatics come in all stripes. A bunch of right wing dipshit Māori churchgoers in NZ did a protest and haka against normal folks not too long ago.
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Yeah, religion sucks everywhere.
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How else can they be around it without appearing to like it?
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