Drag queen story time leaves children confused ever after
by Ann Farmer, TCW:
THE recent phenomenon of drag queens reading stories to children in libraries and even schools has provoked an angry reaction from parents and members of the public, only for their concerns to be dismissed by the progressive Left.
Any neutral observer could be forgiven for thinking that the aggressive promotion of sexual diversity to children is a cunning plot to stir up antagonism among the general public, and the campaign is typical of many now being pushed by cultural Marxists who have abandoned class warfare and are instead intent on setting different sections of society against each other, while demonstrating (they hope) that democracy is a dictatorship of the majority – that minorities are not ‘safe’.
One of the claims from the diversity brigade is that the UK has a long history of drag artists performing for children in pantomime. Oh no, it hasn’t. Panto dames are parodies of men, unlike drag queens who look like parodies of women, often wearing highly sexualised outfits and garish make-up
Some would argue that drag performances can be made ‘age-appropriate’, but critics insist that any drag act is unsuitable for children because of the risk of premature sexualisation. However, objections to ‘grooming’ children are increasingly seen as evidence of ‘hate’, possibly leading to actual violence against the ‘sexually diverse’. Conveniently, such criticism is used as a springboard for even more of the same.
And while dismissing claims of ‘grooming’, ‘drag queen’ proponents admit that they hope to change future attitudes by exposing children to ‘diversity’. When Margaret Thatcher’s government passed the Section 28 amendment to the 1988 Local Government Act, forbidding local authorities from promoting homosexuality to schoolchildren, there were indignant denials of any intent to corrupt or influence children. Now the objections of parents and other concerned adults are treated as evidence of the bigotry that campaigners insist they are trying to combat, rather than a laudable desire to protect young children from adult preoccupations. Yet campaigners admit the aim of changing children’s views. You cannot have it both ways.
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