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[–]SerpensInferna 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I really need someone who supports these events to explain to me why it is SO IMPORTANT for drag queens to perform in front of children. Why has this become such a big deal to the left?

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

My theory is that Queer theory is the root and because a large portion of the left seems to have hitched their wagon to the proponents of queer theory. They have done this because they are under the mistaken belief that Queer Theory is all about gay rights largely because of a clever campaign to popularise the term “queer” as the umbrella term for da gays.

This misconception, aided and abetted by actual paedos and the brainwashed - think those featured on LibsofTikTok, is that if you are against exposing children to adult performers (notably men dressed as women and not women dressed as women) then you are homophobic. I also think that there’s a certain amount of intransigence, I fully believe that there are some on the left that are simply for this shit because the right is against it.

As for the educational justification, I’m a teacher specialising in 5-11yos, and I have no idea why anyone would think there’s any educational benefit from this (which is why I’m very suspicious of it all).

[–]reverse-alchemy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Drag embodies the queer identity in its aesthetics. Simply being gay and dressing normally doesn’t do it, so Drag is the shining star of queerness that must be shone in everyone’s face.

[–]MikeSopes 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For the same reason that churches have Sunday School for kids. Children are impressionable and easy to indoctrinate. Start early and you have a lot more likelihood that the kids will take after the culture in which they were raised.