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Because otherwise the top Google results for "rainbow dildo butt monkey" would be something much more horrifying. And if you do search for that, that story is what every right winger out there is thinking of when you mention drag reading hour.
That is a comedy of errors.
With the care that I've seen other people put into understanding the impact of their work, I can absolutely see the booking company staff being unaware of what they were booking, not communicating the purpose of the event to the staff, and not providing the library with photo stock of the costumed performers.
I hope whatever brain-dead peon that did this has woken up.
To me, the issue is that library reading hour is a precious commodity and libraries are tax payer funded. I don’t want my taxes going towards teaching kids to do low skill and low talent things.
I don’t hate drag queens, I enjoy their work and I don’t think kids are “too young” to learn about them. I just don’t think they represent good role models for kids. Again, to me they’re like reality tv stars
"low skill and low talent things" buddy wtf are you on about. All they're doing is reading to the kids, something kids enjoy and is good for them. You sound like a brainrotted linkedin guru who wants everyone to be "on that money grindset" 24/7.
All I see are people who decide on things along tribal ideologies, we can do better. No one camp or tribe always has the best ideas
All I am saying is that kids need better role models than drag queens
Dude, this isn’t tribal. This is everyone saying that drag queens reading to kids is fine, and you hating on it for no good reason. Seriously, ‘I demand reading hour be only conducted by top STEM doctors’ is not a good reason.
I am not hating it on it for “no reason” and lol I didn’t say only stem people. I hate that I am being thought of as some bigot or close minded person, so I feel like it’s not worth going on about this 🤷♀️
Because you are, darling.
Drag queen reading hour is fun for kids and drag queens, and teaches kids tolerance.
You are the one fighting against it, because, and I quote, ‘I don’t want my taxpayer money going towards teaching kids to do low skill and low talent things’.
So that shows:
Since those three points are quite nonsensical, it would seem you are either a very silly person, or a bigot trying to skate around your bigotry. Possibly because you don’t even know it’s there.
To be fair there might be a bit of techbro style ‘my child is only allowed to see things related to ‘high skill’ jobs and training for those jobs because little 5-year-old Timmy isn’t too young to be thinking about colleges and internships!’ nonsense too, I suppose, but that’s just as bad in a different way.
1..Just because you say drag requires skill, it doesn’t. We can have better queer role models though because trans people are not costumed performers, so it’s even a little bit insulting to trans identity to say “we want kids to learn about trans people, so here’s someone in a costume”.
I like drag queens, I just don’t appreciate drag story hour because of the quote you shared. If I have a choice for what type of person a kid should get reading from, I’d choose a different person. Or someone who has an another profession and is also a drag queen, that’s fine tbh bc I don’t hate drag queens!! But yeah your psychic ability can see through my heart and what I am saying is a lie obviously. Why? For all the love I am getting for saying this? What a narcissistic pov
Moreover! Why am I so fixated on skills? Hint not bc a tech bro, but instead worried that progressive kids end up being fodder for assholes. I’ve seen that too much, and it’s the reason why you have assholes who can deny college kids a job because of wrong think.
Progressives need to think about strong futures, and all of that comes from hard skills in the current state of the world. Reading hour is a small part of any kids life, and it’s not going to be end all, be all.
But the kind of thinking that justifies reading hour by drag queens is the problem. That’s an innate problem of leftist circles, and why progressive polices end up being ridiculed and voted out. Do things that make you stronger than your ideological enemies.
2.. Reading hour teaches a lot of things, including being goal oriented or aspiring to things
3..No lol
Edit I remember now why I hate social media, gonna do myself a favor and peace out
Given my ideological enemies want to kill every person in drag that they see, I think drag queen reading hour is a perfect thing for my children to engage in.
Drag is not the same thing as trans. It is its own thing.
And just because you think drag doesn’t take skill doesn’t make that true either. Quite a few people have pointed out that it’s a performance art that takes skill, and you refuse to believe them.
Whats the barrier to entry for being drag?
What's the barrier to entry of any kind of performance? What's stopping you from standing on the street corner playing saxophone?
You don’t seem to like them or respect them—or actually know how much goes into being a drag queen, for that matter—if you think they’re ’low skill and low talent’.
Showing kids you can dress up like that and it’s okay is a very good thing, actually. When I was in grade school there was a kid who liked wearing dresses and stuff. And most of the kids mocked him relentlessly, to the point he had to switch schools, because for us a guy in a dress was ‘weird’. Maybe if we’d had a drag queen reading hour, we would have been more understanding.