Mermaids ‘stories’ - disturbing

It seems that “Jenny” likes dressing up like a drag queen rather than being a girl. Maybe “Jenny” is an effeminate boy and wants to show off his creativity with drag makeup but is confused due to the trans rhetoric he reads about online (ie. If you like girly things then you must be a girl - which is sexist).

I too remember this pic. I cannot believe that it is still there. I also remember posters who cannot see the issues. Just like those who support Desmond. Just like posters who could not see past a boy dressing up in the John Lewis ad (FFS it was not about the boy dressing up at all, it was about the sexualized behaviour of that boy)

There really is a degree of blindness around this issue.

That poor poor child.

I want to report that picture, but to who?

How awful. That poor kid.

You do have to wonder about the parents though. My oldest two are 11 & 10 and I’d be aware of any activity online like this. Even the school ask you to sign permission to use their photos for certain events, so I can’t imagine a situation where my child would be photographed trussed up in a Lolita dress and drag makeup on a bed with a drag queen online and I wouldn’t know. Which leads to the presumption that this child’s parents did know and thought it was fine.

How creepy and odd. Also, real life little girls just don’t dress like that, so why would a child who wants to be a girl be dressed like that?

My daughter (and every other girl her age) wears leggings or trackies with t shirts and hoodies. As does my son basically. The only people who dress like that photo are a certain subset of Japanese fashion called ‘Lolita fashion’ or sissy porn fanatics.

bloody hell.. I wish I hadn’t looked..

Mermaids is presently occupied with a fundraiser,which they've retweeted:

mobile.twitter.com/Robbotron/status/1517913511212601348?cxt=HHwWiMC-ufqS25AqAAAA

mobile.twitter.com/Robbotron/status/1517880209298579456?cxt=HHwWgICz7cOAzJAqAAAA

This is the guy doing the Pepsi Max hot tub which "might dissolve my skin":

www.thejohnrobertson.com/thedarkroom/

Still I'm sure once this event is over, they'll attend to the pictures of a child meeting an adult in a bedroom on a bed.

Three questions for me-

Why are they dressed like that?

Why are they on a bed?

Why do Mermaids think that is an ok picture to put on their website?

And today, NK is having a go at anyone who wants to talk about “grooming”.

What a shower of delinquents they are.

No decent person does a meet & greet in anyones bedroom except in some really unusual circumstances where perhaps one of them is bedbound with complex health conditions that meant they can't get out of bed.

It doesn't even matter whether it is the childs bedroom or the adults, they have no healthy reason for being in there together.

You would have to be very twisted to want to support Mermaids.

All they do is make any product with a Mermaid on it seem unwholesome just as I now associate rainbows with child molesters.

Why do they always set out to destroy innocence even with names & symbols?

Here's the picture. In what context would it be appropriate for an 11 year old child to sit cuddled up close on a bed with an adult man the child doesn't know?

The link doesn't work for me

Slightly off track but relevant thread to drag queens Drag queen named after murdered 6 year old girl www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4076782-drag-queen-named-after-murdered-6-year-old-girl

Isn't that Scaredy Cat the drag artist in the pic?

Is it a meet & greet kind of set up? I know lots of people take their kids to 'Meet the Queens' type events.

The bedroom is 100% Scaredy's aesthetic. His girlfriend does the same kind of 'drag' too. It's like baby-doll manga or something.

Death and furry stuff.

Thanks for links female I think there's been even more thread that those two.

How the fuck that charity exists I do not know.

Not difficult to find a more modern but equally chilling analysis.

The world of modelling has often used models who pose as if dying.

It makes me so sick that drag queens do this, and then charities rubber stamp this as "acceptance without exception."

Is it any wonder women and girls don't want to be female?

pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/aisthesis/article/download/46/43/198

Or this one
www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3821776-mermaids-sponsored-by-starbucks

I think we've had threads about this before.

I remember looking at the books on the bookshelf and being quite concerned about the (I'm sure pretend) titles. Mostly about death.

When I was researching my art history dissertation I came across a publication exploring how women are very often portrayed as dead or dying in art. Looking back I can see it was a feminist piece, I wasn't hugely aware of deeper feminism back then and my dissertation was on a slightly different topic, but the publication always stayed with me - if I had my time again my dissertation would have been v different.

Another drag queen locally was performing with a name taken from JonBenet Ramsay and looked deathly ill. till enough of us complained.

A male dressed as a young girl with another male dressed as a young girl. Hyper-sexualised expressions and poses. It is all so scary.

I can't stop seeing Jennie's eager, hopeful face beside this child's rose-tinted story. It makes my heart ache. The adults who let down and mislead children like this are unforgiveable.

I'm baffled as to why Mermaids, or anyone else, thought this was a good photo to put on this child's story. I'm sure it will be taken down soon. But already downloaded by paedophiles everywhere. And as others have pointed out, Jennie will never be able to delete it from the internet. The whole thing is tragic.