Kids in Drag

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Anyone watching? Missed the first bit, but how did children this young get into drag?

Half watching this, very conflicted about it.

What's there to be conflicted about? It's totally wrong for kids to be involved in drag. Drag is usually pretty highly sexualised caricaturing of women. It's not for kids.

Stopped watching as dh has come in and I know wouldn’t want to watch it.

What's there to be conflicted about? It's totally wrong for kids to be involved in drag. Drag is usually pretty highly sexualised caricaturing of women. It's not for kids

I think it's ok for people to hold their own opinions.
I'm conflicted because I get irate with traditional gender stereotyping that says sparkles and glitter only belong to girls. So a part of me is happy to see them being allowed the freedom to explore and play dress up. I'd just prefer it to be in the safety of their own homes rather than on a public platform/social media.
I only watched a short amount and saw a mum arguing strenuously with her child about the need to be modest and non sexual so I guess they tried to be balanced.

I think I am going to fall out with an adult drag queen I know about this.

Do you think adult drag queens would automatically be in favour of this then? I don't actually know any but I'm not so sure they would be...... we're talking about the safeguarding of kids here.

I found this a very difficult watch tbh. I transitioned to female two years ago after years of dressing as a girl I started at age 7. At that age I just enjoyed wearing my sisters clothes. My mother accepted this and I was allowed to do so. I felt that the kids in this programme were too much "out there" and at times were clearly portraying an image beyond their years. The one time the question of paedophile attention on social media was brought up it was glossed over. I'm all for live and let live but the one who looked feminine in real life and went to London Pride in full make up and hair extensions was posing questions more than just wanting to do drag.

We don't (in general) approve of little girls dressing up in sexy adult attire, so why on earth would we encourage little boys to do so?

I'm just watching this now.

Drag is adult entertainment and doesn't set a great example to boys about how to view women and womenhood.

If they like wigs and sparkles why can't they just play dress up and do age appropriate performances. Why does it need to be drag. If a girl was dressing up as lady ga ga and doing sexulised performances people would not find it acceptable.

Just watching the second episode where they go to USA and they have a drag brunch where they meet the USA drag kids. At the intro an adult drag artist asks who's here at drag brunch for first time? He sees the show if hands and declares virgins! I love virgins . If the audience were made up of adults not a problem but some of the kids were 9-10 years old. I'm all for kids expressing themselves but can't help but think that is is too adult and sexual and think the mums seem thrilled to have such young drag queen kids and seem to be 'displaying' them almost as a freak show.

I found the "performances" very strange. Lip synching, messy dancing and terrible singing. Yet they were applauded. Purely because they were boys. If girls had put in those sorts of performances they wouldn't have got further than their mum and dad's living room. But these boys are doing shows at pride and on stages.

I also thought the boy in Spain was just showing off and attention seeking. He had an extroverted family and had to go to extremes to stand out.

My son went to a performing arts college and is now a stage manager, he worked hard for all his performances so that they would be polished... there are no shortcuts! I always ensured he stayed humble and although I supported him and was/am proud of his achievements I did not put him on a pedal stool and kept him grounded,his performing arts friends were all the same hardworking, balanced,lovely individuals...sadly other than the 'novelty value' of the boys on this programme they seemed to have little, natural talent and came across as very arrogant.