Drag Queen at a Primary School - continuation thread here - https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4490413-Drag-Queen-at-a-Primary-School-Thread-2?watched=1

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What are your views on a drag queen visiting a primary school for the day? Think thigh high leather boots with short revealing dresses and a dance show. The drag queen spent the day at school. Did a show for KS2 and then went around to individual classes to read a story book. The school had a themed dress up day. The theme was This is Me. Parents were not informed that this would be happening and were not given the option to opt in or out of the experience. The school has a very diverse mix of cultures and religions. This particular queen is easily found online, the kids were told their stage name and their content is rather steamy.

YANBU- It’s inappropriate
YABU- It’s appropriate

I have name changed for this.

@Bintymcbintface

Would it be different if a woman was wearing it? If say a popstar visited the school, is it the fact that it's a man the problem?

The equivalent would be a woman in a cod piece. That okay?

@WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles

What a surprise someone who is clearly in the minority thinking this is acceptable, thanks one of the very few other people, who are also either ignorant or naive or plain stupid enough, to be OK with it.

Sexist stereotyping is vile and needs eradicating and I fail to see how people don't realise this. (Sexual sexist stereotyping is even worse).

If you have daughters, you are doing them a disservice by not realising this. I want a better world for my DC to grow up in. You should set your bar higher too, for their sake.

I thanked them for their balanced common sensed POV. As said, just because drag queens do sexualised performances doesn't mean they all do or that they don't tailor their acts for their audiences, I strongly doubt this person went into a school and started banging on about blow jobs and orgies, the headmaster even thanked them for a lovely performance!! I think a lot of the outrage on here is from thinking that drag only has one lane when that's not the case

I would love to see someone disabled doing a section for this is me. The go to is always drag Queens/ transgender now. It's so limited

Also you'll be happy to know I don't have daughters, I do have a son who is a respectable, lovely young man who treats everyone equally regardless of who they are. He also doesn't really like RPDR much

Send a letter or email to the Ht of the school, copying in Governors and Director of L.A. (if relevant) Make sure it goes higher up than the school only, or else it will stop there. A letter to local press wouldn't go amiss.

I for one think it's absolutely amazing and it shows kids they can be who they want to be. Well done school!!! Our kids school done an express yourself day last year and i think it was amazing to see kids expressing themselves as they want to be.

No they'd have their tits out

@WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles

We should be teaching our DC how to eradicate sexual stereotyping not fucking encouraging it. Drag is promoting sexualised extreme stereotypes and has no place in society, let alone schools.

This x100

I was on the fence until you mentioned stage name and website with non PG content given out. YANBU

@Bintymcbintface why not get a transperson to talk about their experiences then, rather than an adult entertainer in a primary school.

@Franca123 I'm on your side.
What are schools for?
Shall we next suggest a question about DQs the next time a thread starts about Private Schools?
Or enquire if we think Eton would be even more successful if they had included this sort of bollocks the way this school has?

Naive how, because I'm not so close minded to think that children are going to be brainwashed or at any kind of harm by watching a DQ do an age appropriate act in a school setting supervised by the staff that are trusted to care for them for a large majority of the week?

@Bintymcbintface - what about rainbow dildo butt monkey? Was that appropriate for childrens reading time?

“Dressing up” for kids is fine in many cases. Comparing DQ to panto is a pretty useless argument - if you can’t see the difference, then there’s no point trying to point it out.

Someone that does adult performances doesn't only do adult performances!! A trans person and a DQ aren't the same thing so I don't see the correlation

Was that really the monkeys name or was it named as such by the poster of that comment because they kinda did look like a rainbow dildo?

Completely inappropriate! Why? Why is a drag Queen considered showing “diversity”?

How about teaching children about people living with disabilities and how they should be treated the same and not treated as less than as their “this is me” ? Why is it always some highly sexualized drag performer?

Or how about someone who is autistic or has Asperger’s to decrease the stigma around this?

No no and no.

@Bintymcbintface

Was that really the monkeys name or was it named as such by the poster of that comment because they kinda did look like a rainbow dildo?

No it was not named that, but it did have it's bare arse hanging out and an large penis attachment swinging it in kids faces.

I agree that it's not appropriate to shake a dildo tail at children

@Wannabangbang

Yes because the only way to teach children to be themselves is to have a drag Queen read to them. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Why is it that any time we want to promote authenticity it’s always in a highly sexualised way and usually involving a man in a dress? That’s very curious to me.

I suspect someone’s trying to get a thread deleted, can’t imagine why.

[quote Bintymcbintface]@ClaireFraser a drag queen going into a primary school isn't going to be doing an explicit act, just because some drag queens do doesn't mean that they all do or that they don't tailor their performances for their audiences. Unless there's proof that the DQ mentioned in the OP did an explicit performance or had overly enhanced "assets" I truly don't see what the fuss is about. (no a sparkly dress a la Britney spears doesn't count as offensive) "I don't like it, I don't like drag queens" doesn't really cut it as a valid argument against it[/quote]
These performers aren't exclusive to schools though their real job is entertaining adults. Kids are able to Google or look on SM to find out more about the funny lady who came to our class. They search will show up hilarious stage names, Flo Job for example. Clips of performances which likely aren't kid friendly.

If you want a great example of what happens when child meets drag look up Desmond is amazing . Nothing to be concerned about at all.

I'd be livid and would complain to everyone I could.

Have any of you taken your DC to concerts like little mix or ariana grande etc, imo no different to a DQ in a primary school

My sister teaches an activity in a primary school, she has to have enhanced checks that take weeks. Do the DQs have these?