A story from the Guardian. It appears drag queens have been reading stories to children in public libraries and the right-wing have got hold of it and, on the pretence of protecting children are prepared to protest against such things because they are different.
Why have people got so angry and why do they seem to blame it all on minorities who have even less influence than they do? What are they frightened of, that these weirdos may come over as normal people or even be likeable? This taliban-like Christianity, shows them to be devoid of the legendary compassion of their founder and a very narrow and puritanical form of enjoyment, which seems to thrive on hatred and ill-feeling towards all men. If they looked in the mirror they would see that they are the monsters and not the minorities.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/aug/11/im-just-tryi...
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Typical Guardian
This story broke several months ago and the US Right Wing went mad. There were even Proud Boys turning up at Libraries in an attempt to stop it all.
They want to control every aspect of people's lives. IMHO. Gilead is coming to the USA.
I could go on but this thread could be taken off the front page if I did.
Samantha
To be consistent
The British form of Pantomime should be banned since it exposes so many children to crossdressing.
And so should
Shakespear when performed as it was in the 17th Century... All the actors were male.
See how silly their arguments get?
Samantha
12th Night?
12th Night even today? Just imagine what could be made of the Duke's sexuality.
Traditional
Japanese theatre is all male too
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Tbh
I’ve never really been a fan of pantomime but not for the cross dressing elements, they’ve just never appealed to me.
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Hate in the Open
A week ago I was driving to a family reunion with my son and his girlfriend. I was in definite male mode.
I stopped at a convenience store and purchased three bottles of water.
On the way out, I noticed a man coming in in a black t-shirt with writing on it. I couldn't quite make it out so I suppose I was staring. When I finally realized it said "Let's Go Brandon" I left the store. "Let's Go Brandon" is rightist for Fuck Joe Biden.
I got about thirty feet from the door when I heard, "Hey! Hey!"
I turned around and saw the man in his offensive black shirt coming toward me. He was about forty and in good physical condition with a brush cut.
"You don't like Trumpers, do you?" He asked accusatorily.
"As a matter of fact, I generally don't."
"You think all Trumpers are bigots, don't you?"
"I would say that most Trumpers are bigots."
I nodded. "I would say that most Trumpers are bigots."
He sneered. "Well, all liptards are pedophiles."
I shook my head. "Now you see -- what I said was a fact. And, what you're saying is pure fantasy."
By this time he had planted himself much too close to me. "You were staring at my t-shirt, in front of my wife."
I had no answer for that.
"All liptards are cowards," he growled.
I pulled myself up to my full 5'10" and looked down about four inches -- at someone with obvious short man issues. "Isn't this interesting? I'm 74 years old and you're trying to intimidate me. I think I've had enough."
I turned and walked away from him -- the ten steps to my car.
After I got in, my son said, "That was pretty intense. I thought I was going to have to get out for a while."
His girlfriend added, "That was a nice camo gun he was packing."
I hadn't noticed.
I wonder if I had noticed how much differently I would have acted.
I also wonder when it became remotely okay for a forty-year-old to try to pick a fight with someone almost twice his age?
The world doesn't hate only trans. It apparently hates everyone.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Well
https://news.yahoo.com/floridas-dont-gay-law-fuels-164326707...
"References to pedophiles and “ grooming ” rose by more than 400 percent in the month after Florida's “Don't Say Gay” measure was approved, according to a report released Wednesday by the Human Rights Campaign, one of the nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy groups, and the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit group that tracks online extremism."
I was 'groomed' by two family members and a retired Boy Scout leader.
Love, Andrea Lena
Projection
Projection is a hell'va drug. It's amazing how many things the left is accused of doing are overwhelmingly seeing convictions against people on the right.
What
Is a ‘liptard’ pray tell?
As for Trumpers - well repeat offenders would be sent to the corridor when I was at school, very anti social.
Respect for older people had declined greatly over recent years, not sure what drives it. I guess it’s a bit like free bus passes, a liveable pension etc etc, by the time I’m eligible they won’t exist.
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Libtard
Libtard is a blend of the word liberal and the slur retard
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
In our community too weirdly
The last place I thought I would encounter a rabid Trumper (is there any other kind?) was at Fantasia Fair 5 years or so ago.
Their presence has soured me for the Fair which had been my home away from home once a year for many a year as they had such a sense of community.
The hypocrisy of being a Trumper and being LGBTIQ is just bewildering.
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Love, Andrea Lena
In my town the local Proud Boys conduct story hour @ the library
Reading such beloved children's classics for the kiddies as
DONALD DRAINS THE SWAMP
https://www.amazon.com/Donald-Drains-Swamp-Eric-Metaxas-eboo...
and PAWS OFF MY CANNON
https://www.amazon.com/Paws-off-Cannon-BRAVE-Books/dp/195555...
And it's the drag queens who show up and protest,
railing against "this dangerous indoctrination of our youth"...
~hugs, Veronica
What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
.
Regarding swamps
Draining is one way of eliminating a swamp. Adding massive amounts of water could be another since you'd have a lake then.
The analolgy with rules is obvious. If you have occasional rulebreaking that is bad. Better to eliminate the rules?
No difference.
No difference between them
hugs :)
Michelle SidheElf Amaianna
Let's not exaggerate
There is a difference, still.
We Can Only Hope. . .
. . .there is a difference.
But . . . why would anyone have a camo handgun?
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Not Posturing With Idiots
I lived most of my life impersonating a male. At 5'7" it was tiresome encountering males who wanted trouble. I was never good with fisticuffs and got thumped a couple times. Then I started to carry a Military .45, though only pulled it out once. Looking down that barrel is sobering. My assailant was running so fast that it wasn't worth shooting.
I was never gay, though was accused of it. Since I transitioned to Female, life is much nicer, and I get hit on by males who have no chance at all with me. I seem to pass, or am not seen as a threat. No need to carry a weapon now.
Gwen
That doesn't surprise me Gwen
That doesn't surprise me Gwen. Some pea-brained men can only feel good about themselves when fighting. Naturally, they try to choose someone they think they can beat. It is odd when feminists always say men don't have to worry about feeling safe walking the streets. Men are more often victims of street violence than women. It is an unjust stereotype that men can fight off their attackers.
Leeanna
The small but vital difference
is that he didn't use it (as soon as he saw you).
Personally I never bother with weapons with a warhead of less than 1 kg.
That is fucking horrible
That is fucking horrible
"holding up signs saying “Welcome groomers” and “Nonce upon a time” outside libraries in places from Bexleyheath to Reading when Drag Queen Story Hour events were due to take place. Parents entering the libraries had questions shouted at them about why they were taking their children to see a paedophile"
Right, so a paedophile would wear a huge wig and outrageous make up, cos that's just how they fly under the radar.
Surely that is libel to have placards like that?
"Libel is defamation of a person through a permanent form of communication, mostly the written word"
Children love colourful characters. It's not until they are older the gender tramlines really seem to bite.
Leeanna
Please
Learn to spell or I’ll think you are American!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
their ignorance is dangerous for kids
Conservatives in the US and the UK have latched onto the word "groomers" and twisted it into a partisan taunt that says nothing about any real danger to kids. Applying labels like groomers and pedos to liberals and LGBTQ+ people who want to teach kids to accept people who are different and to not hate themselves if they turn out gay and/or trans is like calling having public libraries a form of Communism. These words become gibberish when applied to things so far removed from their real meaning; and thrown at someone with no actual cause to in order to intimidate them into silence/acquiescence/compliance, like accusing someone of being a witch back in olden times.
And promoting the notion that child abuse is a liberal thing and you can spot a molester by their electric car and Greenpeace bumper sticker leaves your children vulnerable to that great guy best friend of yours with political views (and maybe even musical tastes and sports team affiliations) JUST LIKE YOURS, who is funny, smart, charming and well informed. Because what actual pedophiles do first is manipulate the child's parents into trusting them; and you can't spot them by their political leanings, by how they dress (raincoat, bad haircut, outdated glasses), the shape of their head or their eyes being too far apart, or by some stereotypical aura of twitchiness and general not-quite-rightness. There are no signs other than what they do, and how the child acts after they've been with this person. Saying the threat is only or predominantly from California liberals, or from Trumpsters and Southern Baptist conservatives, LGBT folk (although sadly it's possible for one of us to be one) or even Roman Catholic clergy is a dangerous naive belief that your kids could pay an unimaginably awful price for...
~hugs, Veronica
What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
.
The right wing nut jobs in the US
The right wing nut jobs have no limits on what they will do when they hate a minority group.
It scares me what they will do when orange Julius is indicted and sent to prison for (pick your crime).
Julie
Their hatred knows no bounds
They kicked a child out of kindergarten because her parents are same-sex, that right, punish the innocent.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/11/louisisana-k...
Angharad
Action and reaction
The kid in question was offered a place in several other church run kindergartens, at least one closer to home.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be a great idea to persuade people on the religious right that the Shakers had the right interpretation of procreation?
On another note. The kicking out kindergarten maintained that marriage is between one man and one woman. Havent't they read the Old Testament?
Just the Adjectives and Pronouns
Careful interpretation requires selective reading.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Drag queens can be lewd at
Drag queens can be lewd at adult drag shows yes. I would imagine the schools and libraries would stop anything inappropriate
Drag is mainstream TV nowadays. In some ways, it is an introduction to younger minds not to fear everything that differs from cultural norms.
30% of all sexual abuse victims are assaulted by family members.The general consensus is that males make up 80% to 90% of all known sex offenders.Most Pedophiles and Child Molesters Are Actually Heterosexual Doesn't sound like your average drag queen does it?
Researchers examined charts related to cases — 78% of which involved girls and 22% of which involved boys — to determine the alleged offender’s gender and whether they were reported as gay, lesbian or bisexual.
They found that only two out of 269 individuals accused of child sexual abuse identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual — that’s 0.7%. That means that 99.3% of the time, the pedophile was actually heterosexual.
So a normal-looking guy reading to kids is 99 times more likely to be a child molester than a drag queen.
Just because someone is gay , it doesn't mean they are a child molester.
Leeanna
The key thing to remember
Apart from the demographics you cited, there are no significant variations between any demographics. Clergy appear to be outstanding, nbut that's more noteriety than numbers. No socioeconomic status, race, religion, part affiliation, education, employment, or any other demographic outnumbers anothr percentage wise. 3-4 out of 100 men and < 1 out of 100 women will offend.
Priests, teachers, coaches, etc. don't become abusers of kids. Sexual predators gravitate toward those positions because that's where they gain trust to access their prey. if anything, 'drag queens' of late are around kids ONLY in SAFE venues where the kids are accompanyed by parents and older siblings, etc. Kids are more likely to be abused by a coach or scout leader or their youth pastor than they would remotely be with a 'drag queen.' To thrash a deceased equine once again. I was groomed by two family members and a retired boy scout leader; all unbeknownst to each other.
Love, Andrea Lena