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

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JoanSummers · 14/01/2019 01:13

I'm not sure if this has been posted?

"A local drag community in Newcastle have come together in style to create a one-of-a-kind 2019 calendar, with all proceeds going to charity to support transgender children and young people across the UK."

The February and March photos are attached.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6577301/Drag-queens-pose-glamorous-calendar.html

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sackrifice · 14/01/2019 22:16

Gosh you uptight bunch of cardigan wearing ice queens. Don't you remember when the WI posed with their glitter anal beads to raise money for Great Ormond Street? We gave the kids their own anal beads in pink or blue to kick off the campaign. They loved them.

Nobody? Just me then. Or maybe that would be totally inappropriate.

PineappleSunrise · 14/01/2019 20:59

One of the things that fascinates me is the way that some seem to think that "for consenting adults" is exactly the same as "good for children exploring their sexual identities at a really young age."

CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 14/01/2019 20:54

Am aware

Oh I know, I read though the thread, I just thought it needed repeating.

Earlywalker · 14/01/2019 20:53

Am aware. The question was ‘What kind of person would buy this’

deepwatersolo · 14/01/2019 20:52

Fetishes and sexual desires are natural...

Right. And this calendar, by its shonsorship and mermaid logo, directly links the desire of kids to wear 'opposite sex' clothes to the fetishes and sexual desires naturally associated with cross-dressing.

CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 14/01/2019 20:48

consenting adults

Mermaids is a charity for children.

Earlywalker · 14/01/2019 20:43

Because some people may be attracted to drag acts?
Fetishes and sexual desires are natural and as long as they are not harming anyone in the process and involves consenting adults, I don’t see why anyone would see it as an issue.
It’s the same sort of thing as a playboy calendar just not as universally recognised/accepted, drag queen attractions are also actually quite common in woman. (Though not personally my thing!)

FlyingOink · 14/01/2019 20:20

CigarsofthePharoahs
I imagine quite a few people would buy it as a joke.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 14/01/2019 20:05

My eyes....
What kind of person would buy this?

frogintheTyne · 14/01/2019 19:36

Blimey. As Mermaids have me blocked on twitter I had no idea their logo was on it. This is bad.

The Daily Mail has printed a picture of the calendar page which shows the Mermaids logo.

Ereshkigal · 14/01/2019 19:32

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

I snorted at that.

FlyingOink · 14/01/2019 19:26

NonExistentFox
Maybe just don't volunteer to do children's fundraising.

NonExistentFox · 14/01/2019 18:54

They are clothed OTOH, Beerflavourednipples.

SunsetBeetch · 14/01/2019 18:48

Blimey. As Mermaids have me blocked on twitter I had no idea their logo was on it. This is bad.

Beerflavourednipples · 14/01/2019 18:45

There are drag queens in that Mermaids calendar looking at a gay porn magazine, amongst other images. I don't get how that is the same as the links you have posted?

Beerflavourednipples · 14/01/2019 18:43

NonExistent I feel like you think you are a having a 'gotcha' moment, but I don't get it?

NonExistentFox · 14/01/2019 18:42

Which was your opportunity to correct that poster

But she's right. They're not anthropology. The whole point is they're intended to be titillating.

FlyingOink · 14/01/2019 18:34

NonExistentFox
Which was your opportunity to correct that poster, who incidentally, doesn't operate the computer sats no computer either.
Your "gotcha" failed.

NonExistentFox · 14/01/2019 18:31

Pic attached implies that naked and vanilla is sexualised.

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JoanSummers · 14/01/2019 18:29

People suggesting this isn't much of an issue are also not taking the context wrt Mermaids and their own background into account.

There is abundant evidence that Mermaids have no understanding of safeguarding, that they actively promote to schools and children's orgs policies that ignore and even go against safeguarding guidelines and skim the law (I'm being generous there). The leader of Mermaids took her child to Thailand for genital surgery to remove the child's genitals and replace them with a facsimile of female genitals for their sixteenth birthday. This woman laughed and joked about this. If that child had been female she could have been investigated for taking her child abroad for female genital mutilation. There is evidence that this woman sees transition as an appropriate response to children showing signs of gender nonconformance and homosexuality. This is the context in which Mermaids operate and this is the context that Mermaids supporting and promoting this calendar and these images need to be examined in.

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PineappleSunrise · 14/01/2019 18:23

Oh, so Fox wasn't talking about vanilla sex at all - just a bit of not-quite-nudity. That's the crappy parallel right there.

Unless Fox, you do actually find yourself getting quite excited on naturist beaches, in saunas, and it changing rooms, and being politely but firmly asked to leave?

ChewyLouie · 14/01/2019 18:21

FlyingOink took the words out of my mouth 😀
Fox beyond distasteful to bring up the Soham calendar in this thread. Shameful behaviour.

FlyingOink · 14/01/2019 18:19

Yup, that's why I asked whether a naked and vanilla calendar would be ok. Computer said no.
Pic attached was your opportunity to say "no, not sexualised, more like -these- (insert links)"

Drag queens pose in bond age gear for calendar in aid of Mermaids
userschmoozer · 14/01/2019 18:16

wtf.

NonExistentFox · 14/01/2019 18:15

Yup, that's why I asked whether a naked and vanilla calendar would be ok. Computer said no.

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