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

[Lennyllama]

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.

Would anyone else in that outfit be allowed into the school? What would happen if the teacher showed up wearing it? If it’s not appropriate for the teacher then it’s not appropriate for anyone. FFS.

Also a lot of drag is deeply misogynistic and I don’t want either my daughter or my son listening to that, so I would want the content to be heavily vetted.

Mhairi Black, MP , arranged for 'Flo JobQueen' to visit a primary school.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51617457

'LGBT Youth Scotland.

It said: "We're horrified to see the abusive messages and tweets targeting Glencoats Primary School for their bold and brilliant LGBT inclusive education practices.

"We are proud to work with their pioneering headteacher, and recognise the school as an example to others across the country."

FloJob Queen posted pictures of children on his social media. There were also photographs of FloJob in various states of undress, references drugs, alcohol, etc.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8038669/Furious-parents-slam-primary-school-drag-queen-Flowjob-read-pupils-young-four.html

This is absolutely outrageous. I cannot believe this woke nonsense that is now being pushed into schools. What are the teachers, heads and governors thinking?? Have they lost all their sense of what is right and wrong, what is suitable for children and just blindly gone over to this trendy woke bullshit??

I wonder if the school would accept a drag 'king". It would be a woman caricaturing the stereotype of a typical "blokey bloke'. Arse hanging out of work trousers, talking about ' 'er indoors', making comments about the teachers cleavahe/clothing, saying they had a shit/shave/shower etc etc. Lovely jubbly

While I love drag and dont find it misogynistic in the slightest, thigh highs are not a good choice of outfit for a school visit. Man or woman.

@Lennyllama

This was the outfit the DQ wore to dance and read books to the younger children.

Inappropriate. But at least you probably can't see his genitals. Some drag queens favour very tight costumes.

I’d be furious. You definitely need to complain to the Governors, personally I’d take it further.

In my family we have always loved drag queens, from my grandmother and Danny La Rue onwards. Their humour is non aggressive, often kindly, and the dressing up and makeup always seems to me to be more of an homage to femininity than anything deeply unpleasant. Done in the right way I don't think it inappropriate for children to have a story read by a drag queen, it is not the same as taking them to a night club. To put it into context most of our more homely performers (Think Sarah Millican pre watershed on TV) ramp it up a lot when they are performing live with an audience of adults in ;the evening.

@Chely

Wouldn't care so long as they were using appropriate language for the age group. Young ones watch that Justin fella, he dresses up as all sorts.

Honestly are people really this stupid?

Nonsense! Of course it’s inappropriate

“This is me” is all very well, but I could just as well say “it’s me to wear hot pants and thigh high boots” - would o be allowed to wear them into school? I hope not as it’s just not appropriate.

Would they allow a woman who worked in a strip club to come and read a story/dance in a similar outift?

@Gonnagetgoing I don't see how it's any more scary or confusing than Mr Tumble dressing up as different characters, tbh

Let's not forget the Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey furore at Redbridge Library. Same energy.

There's clearly an agenda with the drag queens thing. As has been said, the are every b*** where at the moment. it's disgusting that adult entertainment is not only relentlessly promoted on mainstream TV, but is infiltrating primary schools. This needs to be challenged at every opportunity. Name and shame the school, and every staff member & governor that 'green lit' this appalling event.

I find it all rather seedy.

Who in their right mind would feel comfortable sloping around in all of that get up in front of toddlers and small children.

A very strange and somewhat disturbed person is who.

I wouldn't be dressing like that infront of my own children let alone anybody elses, and why does drag have to be so overly sexualized?

Sex this sex that.

They'll be bringing porn stars in next.

Why stop at that? Invite the local sex offenders whom are of the opinion that they fall under the LGBTQ+ umbrella (a claim not supported by the vast, vast majority of the community thank fuck)

Honestly are people really this stupid?

No. Just different to you.

Not appropriate in the slightest, I really worry about this drive to sexualise our children from a very young age - my school would be hearing from me long and loud if they pulled that shit with my kids.

I wouldn't be happy about it. I probably wouldn't complain but they should have told parents beforehand.
I don't have a problem with the drag or the dressing up, it's the oversexualisation of it all which isn't appropriate for children.

@AmberLynn1536

Every time I put on bbc iPlayer they are promoting some sort of drag Queen, they even had a drag Queen presenting a section of the One Show the other day, they are literally everywhere, I find it quite sinister.

It’s ridiculous and insidious. Drag queens are adult entertainment not meant for children. I notice a lot of drag queens are not happy with this either.

The make up artist who did the drag shit for Ant and Dec is on the BBC news site-under Manchester news saying he told Ant and Dec that they were changing "young queer children's lives" and it would be an inspiration. No doubt Ant and Dec will be honoured for this shit.

I don't many YOUNG queer children but the older queer people I know don't go around dressed a drag queens.

Unfortunately, the lunatics are running the asylum and there is little way back.

OP. I would seriously consider moving schools and encourage others to do the same.

The only slight way of burying all this hate towards women is to vote with our feet and stop using anywhere that promotes this.

No idea why small children need to be co-opted into adult fetishes.

My DC would have found this very disturbing.

YADNBU.

The reality is this: By the time you're a middle-aged bloke raiding your local Oxfam's lacy bits and bobs box and the rest, you really have no business being around small children. I wonder if they do DBS checks on these individuals.

I wonder if the school would accept a drag 'king". It would be a woman caricaturing the stereotype of a typical "blokey bloke'. Arse hanging out of work trousers, talking about ' 'er indoors', making comments about the teachers cleavage/clothing, saying they had a shit/shave/shower etc etc. Lovely jubbly

I love this idea! What a lark! What a plunge, right?

@weaselish you summed up my exacf thoughts very succinctly.

It is all about lowering sexual boundaries.

Why is it ok to lower children’s sexual boundaries?