Too not want Drag Storytime for schools

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It's not what I want kids to be subjected to.

@ElbowsToes I never said reading is boring. I said maybe being read to by elderly volunteers is more boring to kids than watching a professional drag performer reading a story in full make up and a shiny costume.

As for the other bit... That's just depressing! Good luck to you, but you're making me sad, so I am now disengaging.

How is anyone to know what religious belief identity various men have about themselves?

These people wanting to be perma happy and perma excitement may want to check with their GP if they have something going in like Bipolar?

Most people throughout history managed just fine without a perma happy exciting life with a few laughs each day and some special exciting occasions each month.

I’ve yet to see anyone in a pantomime show their knob & bollocks to the audience.

Eh? What?

I’m in the “what’s the point” camp.
Having a range of people come in to tell stories is a great idea. I don’t see a need for there to specifically be a “drag” story time, not sure what it achieves. I can think of other groups I’d rather have telling story times.

I wonder if a female went in to read to children they'd be welcomed with a full face of heavy make up, shiny and tight clothes, hair styled up the nines- I suspect I know the answer. Extra outrage points for women who perhaps have social media pages with similar content to some of these performers.

YADNBU

They don't want to hear it, someone's just compared it to the rainbow-monkey-dildo-bum guy.

But drag queens and dames in pantos aren't comparable. Make it make sense.

It is rubbish. You have a few examples of this happening in the UK and they are all old.

@nothingcomestonothing ah this reminds me of the time I went to a children's story time, had a vajazzle, transitioned into a panda and then fucked that well hung monkey from the article. It was the gateway drug I never knew I needed.

This! Why drag acts? To look cool and “inclusive” but inclusive of what or whom? Why do drag acts need to be included to encourage kids to read? Would they not want to hear the story if the drag act wasn’t reading it?
Seems very deliberate- and odd.

Gold medal for that stretch.

@Percypigscrunchie you're right, I'm clearly a pervert. It's the only logical conclusion. Must be that, not that there could be a little drop of bigotry running through this thread.

Why is it impossible for these entertainers to go as themselves? Does the sparkles, wig and make up also come with the ability to change the voice of various characters?

I didn’t see anyone picketing Dame Edna shows?

It’s just dress up … I do know a number of Drag Queens - they are fully aware of what is suitable for children, and what’s not.

Right? I agree with a PP that surely the more important message is that people's sexual orientation doesn't define them. Plenty of ways to teach and support inclusivity in young children other than this, its weird AF in honesty. When they're older children might find they enjoy drag which is fine, it just have zero place or use in a school.

@Percypigscrunchie I think that scrunchie of yours is too tight, it's cutting off the blood supply to your brain love

Ageist and sexist! Well done.

And then they wonder why the threads are taken down and say they're being silenced 🥲

Yeah I love it on Strictly when they all perform in their joggers

It's so obviously inappropriate, I suspect people saying it isn't have no experience of drag. The entire point if drag is woman hatred. Literally fishy fannies, the names, the whole thing is and always has been a deliberate piss take. Ru Paul's show tells us that amd anyone who watches that as a family has boundary issues unless the kids are over 15, it is heavily sexualised specific to how nasty women are. Panto dames are not hating women, they are gentle Mickey taking of mostly over protective mums or grans not about how disgusting vaginas and the people who have them are.
Also under stonewall drag does count as trans, dressing up is enough to become a woman if you want. It makes no sense but stonewall never does.