Grandad's Pride is being read on milkshake on channel 5 - not acceptable! AIBU

[grandadspride]

Milkshake story den.

Why are we reading books about pride, gender and drag to pre-school children.

Agreed. This is my view - same sex relationships, yes. Blokes in bondage gear - NO.

You only need to google the movie poster to see the symbolism in the heart glasses and the link to Lolita. From an author and illustrator who openly uses carefully chosen symbols in his work…

Im sure it’s just a random collection of things in a child’s room though.

Alongside the ‘MAP’. And the slogan used by a fairly well known group who advocate relationships between children and adults.

Pure coincidence.

This. Even if you think the author totally innocently put several small deniable references to paedophilia in a children's picture book, just completely random, no other inferences - you're defending a book for small children which definitely includes depictions of BDSM/kink. Why do under fives need to see cartoons of men in fetish wear?

I wouldn’t read it to a child that age, but each to their own.

Switch off the TV if you don't like it?

Actually there is a lady who is well known in the running community who does run topless proudly showing her double mastectomy scars

https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/health/a45545191/topless-runner-breast-cancer/

Even if you ignore the small details like the MAP etc can anyone tell me how a story about an old man in leather pants benefits kids?

So you’ve never seen the rather well known poster from Kubricks’s film before then?

All of you right wingers getting upset about a book about trans people really make me glad I live in Bristol. These kind of opinions aren’t ok here.

I understand that the daily mail and gb news has a lot of sway. I know you can go down a rabbit hole with conspiracy about trans people. But perhaps look at yourselves in the mirror. The Views on this thread are pretty disgusting and shouldn’t be tolerated.

it isn’t the 1950s any more.

LOL. It's not a book about transpeople. I'm not sure anyone's even mentioned transpeople on the thread. And yet here you are, throwing around insults. It isn't as effective as it used to be.

So anyway, why are you so in favour of a children's picture book including drawings of men in BDSM outfits?

What? People in Bristol are all an homogeneous lump whose opinions all match yours?!

Ah, the men are here to instruct women in their sacred duty to be kind and never, ever think.

Would you say that if Nightmare on Elm Street was being shown on the Milkshake slot? Or Lady Chatterley's Lover?

Some things are not for children, and adults should not be showing those things to children. Illustrations of fetish wear are not for children.

Shocking.

Thanks for the reply Stephanie but when did I mention women?

I am a proud trans activist and a proud feminist. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. 😊

Oh come on. Which do you think the author was depicting in this particular book, a marathon runner who had cancer or a transman with scars from an elective double mastectomy?

No, you're right. You're absolutely a male feminist who came on to mumsnet to scold men about kindness.

Men are just as capable of transphobia as women. I was scolding everyone inclusively.

And calling women on here concerned about safeguarding children from age inappropriate content "right wing " with pretty disgusting views that "shouldn't be tolerated".

Yeah - a real "feminist" 😂😂

Does it matter?

Always interesting when new posters drop by to scold women. Or did you just name change especially?

Always the same tired tropes too.

I'd go on pistonheads or somewhere if you're looking for men to scold, tbh.

It's interesting how many men are determined to portray safeguarding children as right wing bigotry. They've got quite a campaign going on.
Wonder what it is about safeguarding children they're so frantic to stop?

https://twitter.com/mcashmanCBE/status/1730567854813024511

It sure is a mystery!

They must have someone’s best interests at heart? I wonder whose? 🤔