FFs, I forgot I had to do the workaround to make sure MN didn't delete paragraph breaks.
It would be a relief that the children involved are too young to google, except that in two of the pictures I've seen of him with a funny looking bustle, the backs of children's heads are visible. If the bustle is visible in an image on facebook, it will have been visible to people present. Especially children. As his latest social media posting reminds us, young children are short, and their eyeline is at the height of someone's... bustle.
Where google and older children are concerned, we often run into a peculiar doublethink on these threads.We are told that drag performances in schools and libraries are massively important to children and that the visit of a drag queen constitutes a beneficial formative experience. In fact, here's bloke 1, talking about that to Wales Online:
"By doing what I do, I am saving lives. It's weird to say that because there are many people out there saving lives in a more direct way. But there are kids I have come across who would have died by suicide if I hadn't shown them that they are good.
Wales Online interviews Aida
But we are also reassured by the same people that the kids don't care that much about these visitors and absolutely definitely won't try to google their names or look for more content by the exciting drag queens on youtube.
If you point this out, then posters segue into "if parents are responsible and put parental controls on devices, that can't happen". At which point, one can only conclude they think schools and public services like libraries should be restricted to only those children who have net-savvy, responsible parents. Sure, let's declare some children acceptable collateral damage!
I think children who don't have parents able to protect them from harm (including psychological harm from age inappropriate materials) are in need of more care from public services, not less. It's utterly repugnant to treat those children as second-class citizens, and sacrifice their wellbeing. But that is what people are doing when they say it's okay for schools to host people whose marketing profiles are of an adult nature, and that it's up to parents to prevent their children seeing the profiles.