Iowa mum attends school board meeting in matching outfit to Drag Queen school visitor.

[TheClogLady]

An Iowa mother attended a school board meeting dressed up in the costume of a drag performer who had performed for students at the local high school. Kimberly Reiks went to the Ankeny School Board meeting wearing a black, high cut body suit, with one shoulder showing, and tall black boots.

Reiks' purpose was to show the school board what was being permitted at local schools, and to show that this was not at all acceptable for school-sponsored entertainment. Reiks, who is a founder of the local Mama Bears, demanded that the board apologize and pass a resolution "to make sure that this doesn't happen again on school grounds," the Des Moines Register reports.

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/10/04/iowa-woman-wears-drag-school-board-meeting/8175521001/

thepostmillennial.com/mom-wears-skimpy-drag-queen-outfit-to-school-board-meeting-to-protest-explicit-performance-for-students

Brilliant!

That's amazing.

Queen!

Not all sheroes wear capes.

Crazy that the most effective way for a woman to get her serious point across is to STILL to dress like a man while she’s making it (only now that means dressing as a man wearing sexy-female-sterotype-clothing, rather than the traditional Thatcher style power suit) but here we are.

Whereas I support what she did here I am not sure that the aims of Iowa Mama Bear is necessarily something I would want to be aligned with

I don’t think I hate a word at the moment more than “align”.

FFS.

@Quartz2208 so often I look at the people I'm seemingly aligned with and I have to really question have I missed something massive? Like am I on the wrong side?

Bloody well good for her. I don’t really care what other “alignments” she has, I don’t need to agree with any of them, but this one she is 100% correct and should be applauded.

Why doesn’t anyone ever say it’s the right wing aligning themselves with left wing women?

There's a really important point here, and what this woman is doing makes it really well. The problem with drag queens performing to children is not about them being gay, and not about them being gender-non-conforming - it's that this is a sexualised form of entertainment which is inappropriate in a school, no matter who the performer is, or what their sex, gender identity or sexual orientation is.

I don’t need to agree with her on anything except this, to post this.

Bored with the guilt by association stuff now.
Kids don’t have time to wait for adults to sort everything else out and draw up all our compromise contracts and heal all political divisions and achieve world peace before we can work together on this.

Good question!

Exactly.
We want everyone to be held to the same standards.

Same with safeguarding protocols.
Same with properly evidenced medicine.

Same with single sex services and spaces (ie, no males in female—designated spaces, not even the very specialgender males)

When it comes to the safeguarding if children surely left and right ^should" be aligned?

After all protecting children is something we should all want. You can't just forget about it just because you don't want to agree with the "wrong" person.

Surely thats what got us here in the first place.

Well done to her! Im not afraid to agree with someone . Only an idiot would assume that means I agree with everything all the time.

I have been wondering: that transwoman teacher with huge fake breasts and erect nipples ... if female teachers at the same school came in with no bra and a thin stretchy top on a chilly day ... would they just be allowed to go on teaching their classes?

Because it suits the right wing media to blame everything bad on the left, and on average people believe the nonsense drip fed to them?

Because it suits the right wing media to blame everything bad on the left, and on average people believe the nonsense drip fed to them?

And it suits the left to brand everything they disagree with right wing.

Some of the younger right wingers (eg The Lotus Eaters Podcast) do sometimes admit ‘the terfs are based’, albeit somewhat begrudgingly!

(‘based’ from ‘based on facts’ and generally used to indicate agreement with a statement, especially a statement that is at odds with the current fashion.

Thus, ‘terfs are based’ means ‘women who say humans can’t change sex are correct and we admire them for having the ovaries to say it, especially as they might get fired’)

Agreeing with someone on a particular issue does not "align" you with them. For the vast majority of people, we will agree with them on some issues but not on others. There are some people I agree with vehemently on some issues and disagree with just as vehemently on others.

This notion that if you agree with someone on one issue, you are aligned with them on all issues is ridiculous.

That is a very effective approach on her part. A picture is worth 1000 words is a cliche, but it's also true. It wouldn't be nearly so effective if she'd just said the guy was dressed inappropriately.

This notion that if you agree with someone on one issue, you are aligned with them on all issues is ridiculous

it is….and they still do it!

This is SUCH a good point.

You make a good point, so therefore any aligned with TRA and Mermaids are aligned with some other views too...

Agree. And the Iowa mum is brilliant. Well done to her.