Drag queens pose in bond age gear for calendar in aid of Mermaids

I can just imagine them at Mermaids HQ.

"Oh look, Susie. The Daily Mail who have been slagging us off for years have written a really nice article about how images of BDSM will be used to fundraise for us. Isn't it just great to get such positive publicity from mainstream media at last? The article mentions Mermaids over and over again, which is like sooooo amazing. Stick it on Twitter, quick".

Thick as two planks.

not arts! Answer.

I mean, just how dim can you actually be?

The arts it would appear to be catastrophically dim.

"The pair said they chose the charity because Mermaids supports a cause close to the hearts of so many people on the scene."

The fact that Mermaids is enthusiastically retweeting the Daily Mail article, completely unaware that the article is actually a Mermaids hatchet piece, tells you all that you need to know about them.

The whole point of the piece is to associate Mermaids, a children's charity, with BDSM in the minds of readers.

Ordinary people reading that will be appalled, and those that are into BDSM now know that Mermaids is welcoming and inclusive place.

I suspect that Mermaids will be crowing next week about how many men have applied to volunteer with them.

I mean, just how dim can you actually be?

It seriously raises questions on their ability to safeguard children.

The assumption here is that there is any safeguarding of any children going on whatsoever, or any plans to do so.

This is really, really, really not in any way appropriate for a children's charity to be associated with. What are they thinking? It seriously raises questions on their ability to safeguard children.

Susie Green is nuts. This is doubling down - if you remove one boundary they all have to go- falling like skittles. Where's the Charity Commission, the Children's Commissioner, the Children's Minister - why are they not challenging the Equalities Dept. The Mermaids logo on this must mean the beginning of the end at least.

Can’t see anything wrong with it to be honest.

Can you name another arena in which images like this would be used to raise money for a children's charity, and people would say 'can't see anything wrong with it to be honest'?

Wtaf?!?

This is so wrong!

This is Mermaids, the ones that tempt kids to their stands with puppies and sweets yes?

No, nothing to see here.

Mermaids logo is on the calendar. They must have given permission for it to be used.

Dear God. I hadn't realised. I thought they would wriggle out of the link to them.

They're either naive, or highly dodgy.

That calendar is absolutely not appropriate to be linked to a charity that supports confused children.

Susie Green laughing at her child's genitalia and being utterly convinced in her TEDTalk that gender stereotypes are ingrained from birth and must be followed or something is wrong with the child. It doesn't indicate, to me, that she is the brightest, most perceptive tool in the box.

There is something wrong with her boundaries if she thinks this calendar is appropriate.

Lol. Here, parents, here are some queer role models for your "trans" child!

Oh Lord.
Nice calendar
Stupid charity to link it too

They really haven't got the sense they were born with eh?

The calendar is not fine, the calendar is obviously pornographic.
Porn should not be used to fund a children's charity.

There are several images which reference violent sexual acts, the legitimization of violent kink by mainstream culture was what got Natalie Connolly's rapist and torturer away with murder (cause it was normal sexual play gone wrong).

Please wake up to the normalization of the sexual abuse of others in mainstream culture, this does not serve women or children well.

Slightly off topic, but the person at the back of the second photo looks like the Little Britain 'Only gay in the village' Character. Do they know, do you think?

Mermaids logo is on the calendar. They must have given permission for it to be used.

Not very wise to link a highly sexualized calendar of cross dressers, including BDSM motives, to a charity that in essence encourages kids to 'cross dress' insisting there is nothing sexual about it.

To be clear, I'm fully on board with kids wearing whatever they want - as long as it is not sexualized, so any such calendar should steer clear of sexualizing gender-nonconformity. If the calendar was along the aesthetics of gender nonconforming rather non-sexualized glam drag (like Conchita Wurst, or so), that would be ok, imo.

Drag is becoming awfully popular nowadays. How long before we had our own 10 yo drag queens posing with naked men and dancing for fivers being thrown at them in a grubby club full of perverts?

It’s like a collective madness has taken hold. Wtf is wrong with people?

The calendar is fine.

The charity is not.

Plus, isn't it a bit late to be releasing a calendar for 2019?

Just noted the "We are no longer accepting comments on this article".

Can't imagine why

Oh, the DM is taking the passive aggressive tack, surely, by referring to it as a "VERY glamorous calendar"?

Highlighting that association is not going to do Mermaids any favours with the general public.

OMFG

Why the fuck would you want those grubby pictures on your wall for a whole year? What happened to the days when people kept their fetishes in their own bedrooms?