Drag queens pose in bond age gear for calendar in aid of Mermaids

[JoanSummers]

I'm not sure if this has been posted?

"A local drag community in Newcastle have come together in style to create a one-of-a-kind 2019 calendar, with all proceeds going to charity to support transgender children and young people across the UK."

The February and March photos are attached.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6577301/Drag-queens-pose-glamorous-calendar.html

I don’t think it’s actually aimed at children is it? Surely it’s aimed at adults, the proceeds are just going to mermaids?
That's my understanding yes. But it shows a lack of either judgement or concern to use this as a fundraising method.
You could host some White Collar Boxing matches to raise money for a DV shelter, or a pub crawl to raise money for children orphaned by a drink driving accident, or sell scratch cards for a gambling addiction charity, but that's all I'm pretty poor taste and this is too

In not I'm

No it is odd for sure. The calendar itself is pretty harmless and is typical of drag as drag is supposed to be ‘sexy’ but it’s odd of mermaids to be linking to it. I can imagine the drag queens just thought they wanted to do something to help, in a way that is typical ‘drag’ but think mermaids should’ve perhaps declined to be associated with the calendar or accepted a donation instead.
Linking to it on Twitter is a bit odd too, especially when they are aware of the concerns around them. It almost screams untouchable in the faces of doubt.

I can imagine the drag queens just thought they wanted to do something to help yeah I considered that might be the case.
It almost screams untouchable in the faces of doubt. Which is the most concerning aspect.

Might this be a useful item to show any head teacher intent on inviting Mermaids into their school?

Why would you use anything that was sexualised to promote a children's charity?

Well, I appreciate that some things are only worth starting threads about when trans advocates do them but they're not the first...

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/news/amp31182/eastenders-cast-strip-off-naked-calendar-children-in-need/

www.tptg.co.uk/view-article/8301/ptg-naked-calendar

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/living/2481325/eighteen-inspirational-dads-strip-for-charity-calendar-to-raise-funds-for-a-childrens-hospice-in-wales-and-share-their-heartbreaking-stories/amp/

www.google.co.uk/amp/forgetoday.com/press/sheffield-sports-teams-get-their-kit-off-for-charity/amp/

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6312525/amp/Strong-Soham-mums-Bereaved-parents-join-forces-Hollys-mother-charity-calendar.html

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devons-best-naked-calendars-charity-2131683.amp

NonExistentFox mate if you can't tell the difference between a naked sports team/Sonia from EastEnders hiding behind a menu and drag queens in a dungeon simulating a whipping there's no hope for you.
If Susie Green and the Mermaids staff had done a naked calendar there would be nothing to discuss.

Not reeeeeeaaaalllllyyyyy the same NonExistentFox is it?

Kink - this is kink not the WI popping out from behind a sofa. If you can’t understand the difference then brain bleach is needed- urgently.
If you want to support an organisation donate the flipping money, not everything needs to be over sexualised. I’m going to morph into Mary Whitehouse I’m getting pretty fed up with the way things are heading.

Yup, that's why I asked whether a naked and vanilla calendar would be ok. Computer said no.

wtf.

Yup, that's why I asked whether a naked and vanilla calendar would be ok. Computer said no.
Pic attached was your opportunity to say "no, not sexualised, more like -these- (insert links)"

FlyingOink took the words out of my mouth 😀
Fox beyond distasteful to bring up the Soham calendar in this thread. Shameful behaviour.

Oh, so Fox wasn't talking about vanilla sex at all - just a bit of not-quite-nudity. That's the crappy parallel right there.

Unless Fox, you do actually find yourself getting quite excited on naturist beaches, in saunas, and it changing rooms, and being politely but firmly asked to leave?

People suggesting this isn't much of an issue are also not taking the context wrt Mermaids and their own background into account.

There is abundant evidence that Mermaids have no understanding of safeguarding, that they actively promote to schools and children's orgs policies that ignore and even go against safeguarding guidelines and skim the law (I'm being generous there). The leader of Mermaids took her child to Thailand for genital surgery to remove the child's genitals and replace them with a facsimile of female genitals for their sixteenth birthday. This woman laughed and joked about this. If that child had been female she could have been investigated for taking her child abroad for female genital mutilation. There is evidence that this woman sees transition as an appropriate response to children showing signs of gender nonconformance and homosexuality. This is the context in which Mermaids operate and this is the context that Mermaids supporting and promoting this calendar and these images need to be examined in.

Pic attached implies that naked and vanilla is sexualised.

NonExistentFox
Which was your opportunity to correct that poster, who incidentally, doesn't operate the computer sats no computer either.
Your "gotcha" failed.

Which was your opportunity to correct that poster

But she's right. They're not anthropology. The whole point is they're intended to be titillating.

NonExistent I feel like you think you are a having a 'gotcha' moment, but I don't get it?

There are drag queens in that Mermaids calendar looking at a gay porn magazine, amongst other images. I don't get how that is the same as the links you have posted?

Blimey. As Mermaids have me blocked on twitter I had no idea their logo was on it. This is bad.

They are clothed OTOH, Beerflavourednipples.

NonExistentFox
Maybe just don't volunteer to do children's fundraising.

Oh, the DM is taking the passive aggressive tack, surely, by referring to it as a "VERY glamorous calendar"?

I snorted at that.

Blimey. As Mermaids have me blocked on twitter I had no idea their logo was on it. This is bad.

The Daily Mail has printed a picture of the calendar page which shows the Mermaids logo.