what you did just now is called whataboutism. there is no number of child rapes by catholic priests that would influence the acceptability for a child to be admitted to an upside down leopard thong show. we cannot just claim that someone else did something worse than what we did, and that it somehow makes what we did okay. it’s also problematic because it presents a false choice. we do not have to be both against children being admitted to see men dry humping each other dressed as santa’s reindeer and in favor of children being raped by catholic priests.
Drag shows are not inherently sexual, you simply have to look up pictures from the drag storytime events to see that.
This judgement is correct not because it’s appropriate to take children to an adult drag show, but because the ban is overly broad and concerned more with demonizing drag performers and lgbt people than it is protecting children.
Making the comparison to taking children to church is appropriate because if the people behind this ban genuinely believe that children should be banned from attending events which, to my knowledge, have not resulted in any forms of documented child abuse, then they should be doubly concerned about preventing children attending events that have a much more real possibility to lead to abuse. But that’s not their concern, and there’s no indication that it would be “next on their list”.
It’s not whataboutism; it’s asking why we are allowing children around known, proven predators with a track record (priests) but preventing them from seeing those who have zero record of any inappropriate activity with children (drag queens). Do we care about children’s safety or not?
@goatmeal Hamburger Mary’s is a drag/hamburger joint with a family day on Sundays. Drag queens dressed up like Lucy, etc. serve hamburgers and do family-friendly comedy. Is this for all families? Probably not. But politicians should NOT be able to tell me I can’t take MY kid there. Especially when I can give consent for my child to see a rated-R movie with obscene amounts of gun violence and death. People having their heads blown off is seriously BETTER for a child to see than a man telling jokes in a dress?
what you did just now is called whataboutism. there is no number of child rapes by catholic priests that would influence the acceptability for a child to be admitted to an upside down leopard thong show. we cannot just claim that someone else did something worse than what we did, and that it somehow makes what we did okay. it’s also problematic because it presents a false choice. we do not have to be both against children being admitted to see men dry humping each other dressed as santa’s reindeer and in favor of children being raped by catholic priests.
Drag shows are not inherently sexual, you simply have to look up pictures from the drag storytime events to see that.
This judgement is correct not because it’s appropriate to take children to an adult drag show, but because the ban is overly broad and concerned more with demonizing drag performers and lgbt people than it is protecting children.
Making the comparison to taking children to church is appropriate because if the people behind this ban genuinely believe that children should be banned from attending events which, to my knowledge, have not resulted in any forms of documented child abuse, then they should be doubly concerned about preventing children attending events that have a much more real possibility to lead to abuse. But that’s not their concern, and there’s no indication that it would be “next on their list”.
It’s not whataboutism; it’s asking why we are allowing children around known, proven predators with a track record (priests) but preventing them from seeing those who have zero record of any inappropriate activity with children (drag queens). Do we care about children’s safety or not?
@goatmeal Hamburger Mary’s is a drag/hamburger joint with a family day on Sundays. Drag queens dressed up like Lucy, etc. serve hamburgers and do family-friendly comedy. Is this for all families? Probably not. But politicians should NOT be able to tell me I can’t take MY kid there. Especially when I can give consent for my child to see a rated-R movie with obscene amounts of gun violence and death. People having their heads blown off is seriously BETTER for a child to see than a man telling jokes in a dress?
@dirtmayor @Antik