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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
Kids are awesome. Drag Queens are awesome. What are you being a creep about it?.
I’m not. Just asking a question. Have I mentioned that “The Birdcage” is my favorite Robin Williams movie?
You’d take Birdcage over Hook? You nut.
I forgot about hook! Birdcage is 2nd. Maybe third after Mrs Doubtfire
You know, it’s totally possible to like to be around kids and not be a pedophile.
I’m just asking for a different perspective. It was a genuine question lol
For the same reason some grown men like to see little boys wear dresses.
Don’t bring religion into this.