Drag Show at school

[Iliveonahill]

My child’s secondary school, as part of Pride week, has an age appropriate drag show tomorrow afternoon.

Im really not comfortable with this. The drag shows I have seen over the years have mocked women and are really just a “woman face” show. Why is it appropriate in terms of inclusiveness and diversity to mock 51% of the population and in a school?

I wouldn't be comfortable with this either. Someone posted a photo yesterday in a thread here of a drag act for pre-schooler in a library, complete with penis.

Who gets to decide what is age appropriate? The school principal, a random teacher, the Board of Management? Misogny is never age appropriate. Gross waste of taxpayers' money.

Can you share the name of the drag act. There's bound to be some inappropriate images online that could shock the school into cancelling. Have you emailed your concerns to the school? Ask them for an explanation. Is it a co-ed or single sex school?

I think I'd keep my child off school and explain the reason why.

Male burlesque has no place in schools, just like women performing burlesque is not appropriate.

It's adult entertainment. Whether you, as an adult, like it or not, it's not for children for obvious reasons. I've no idea why they are pushing for this instead of.. I don't know, gay or lesbian families?

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4579645-nottingham-library-cancel-a-womens-group-because-of-a-name-confusion

Scroll down the page for a "drag queen" photo, not a pretty picture.

Seriously all this MN Anti Drag stuff is getting tedious now. Let’s hope the DC don’t grow up to be as precious as their fretting parents, it is 2022 after all 🙄

You said yourself it's age appropriate.

Drag doesn't make fun of 'women'. It satirises gender and basic bitch 'beauty'.

YANBU.

Seriously all this MN Anti Drag stuff is getting tedious now

It's not there to entertain you.

What educational benefit is drag?

I would not be happy with this at all.
It's highly inappropriate. Drag shows are not for children. Exposing them to drag/burlesque is wrong and I'm shocked they've run out of so many choices that this is what they've come up with.

And btw, it's hardly precious to think this is not ok. Jesus Christ

Letting kids see drag queens to teach them to respect gay people, is like taking them to a strip club to teach them to respect women.

I'd be keeping ds off this day and I'd be telling the school why. I can't imagine you'd be in trouble for it anyway.
Keep them off and have a fun day planned?

You can't be the only parent uncomfortable with this

ThreeLittleDots, would you be ok with a show in which white people used make up to look like black people then? Would that be satirizing race instead of racist? Would you be defending that? Doubt it

Letting kids see drag queens to teach them to respect gay people, is like taking them to a strip club to teach them to respect women

Yes. I've lost count of how many gay friends really dislike how drag, fetishism, kinks, etc. tend to dominate Pride. Particularly those with children!

Well I find the word bitch misogynistic for a kick off.

Quite.

I agree it is inappropriate.

Hearing the experience of someone who kept their sexuality secret for many years and why they did, or even from say a sports person who has come out, would be far more valuable.

‘Basic bitch beauty’. How delightful.

basic bitch beauty
What on earth?

I don't really get the notion that drag queens help children to respect those of different sexual orientations. There are books, famous people who have accomplished a lot often despite the odds who are inspirational who could come and speak to children if that was the actual aim. Crude characatures that mock women don't represent gay men, surely the better message is that people aren't defined by their sexuality, and you don't need to fit into a stereotype to be attracted to someone of the same sex. It's really odd for a school to be facilitating this.

Even drag Queens have spoken out and said its adult entertainment and are not fir children.

If a teacher turned up in skin tight clothing outlining his penis and got all the kids twerking you'd want him fired. Whys ot acceptable in the ne of the lgbt community? Do you think gay men have to be allowed to be I appropriate around children in order to feel respected I'm society? That's homphobic . They are regular people capable of acting appropriate ways. Hold them to the same standards as everyone else. ( disclaimer , I know many are equally horrified at this stuff)

Miriam Cates debated school RSE material in Westminster Hall yesterday, I think some people may be surprised about what some schools consider age appropriate and concerned about how little oversight there is of the materials provided by external providers.

And let's not forget Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey who was booked by a library for a children's summer reading challenge. Some content just isn't being scrutinised before being presented to children.

There is no need to book a drag act for schools, it is adult entertainment not education. Some drag queens agree that drag is not appropriate for children.

I'm an old straight woman and I worry that having drag shows in schools reduces children's idea of being " different" to that of a pantomime dame. Some gay people go to drag shows, some perform in them, but that's not the sum total of gay culture. Why are schools not pushing art and literature by the gay community, or sciences and politics? Why is everything reduced to a man in a dress? How insulting.

There's no such think as an 'age appropriate drag Queen.'

I don't see how 'drag Queens' are used in Pride anyway. They don't represent all gay people, they certainly don't represent trans people. I just don't get it.

Drag makes me feel really uncomfortable.

Thank you I’ve emailed the school. It’s a boys grammar with mixed sixth form. I didn’t want to be old fashioned but I’m trying to bring my sons up as respectful of everyone but this didn’t feel right regarding women.