They already banned Shakespeare in several schools for being too sexual.

Republicans see no issue with banning Shakespeare and any other expression of art

Republicans only care about Shakespeare, beethoven, and other such classical plays and music when they can use it as a dog whistle in order to imply an inherent criminality to Black Culture

And then they’ll turn around and ban all of the ones that don’t involve cross-dressing because in Shakespeare’s time the female parts were all played by men.

They’ve unintentionally banned the Bible in their regressionist book burning jihad, so probably.

Or an ongoing, exponentially worsening global climate catastrophe.

Same tactics the Tories are using in the UK now, their deputy chairman has even admitted their record is so poor, the culture war is all they have left.

Shame that it seems to be working…

Ding ding ding!

This is the answer right here. Conservative politicians don’t give a shit about any of this but as per usual they found het another irrelevant issue that they can use to rile ou their constituents to ensure the sheep folk votes for them and against their own interests.

and all the other issues

Economy is gone, look at the cumulated inflation over the last few years. And depleting Treasury.

allowing them to get slaughtered in the classroom and raped at bible camp and forcing them to give birth,

while restricting the books they can read.

First things first.

Oops, too late!

They don’t give a shit about children.

They care about people voting for them (and with that, against their own interests) and the only way to get that done is to rile these people up with irrelevant issues like drag queens. Why do you think fox news all of the sudden jumps on top of issues like this?

If people have nothing to freak out about they might look at real issues and notice that the conservative parties are working hard to thing their lives. Can’t have that, so let’s ruin the lives of others too by demonizing them. In the past it was the gays, this time it’s the drag queens because let’s face it: easy target and gays are acceptable now. Colored people and people with “funny” languages are also always a popular target for this bullshit.

Don’t let Republicans pretend they care about children while allowing them to get slaughtered in the classroom

Disarming the working class will hurt those kids more in the long run than the risk of a school shooting.

Strict gun control would be much more palatable if the police were demilitarized first, but the most vocal gun control advocates don’t talk about that.

They might want “a discussion about racial sensitivity” or some other ineffective method of reforming the police, but never want to talk about power, class, and institutionalized violence in a meaningful way.

It’s part of the Republicans’ strategy to stir up trans panic and use it as a wedge issue. Drag is only tangentially connected to trans people but their voters don’t know that.

Men portrayed women for thousands of years until western societies began allowing female actors join their troupes.

I mean they’re already implementing what is next: Making it illegal to look/be trans in public

What’s next, ban street mimes?

I might be in favor of that one…

Who is banning such shows? Nay, why, let’s all also make lap dances and pole dancing available to kids in school. Sure they are art forms and first amendment applies there too. /s

Not ban, just make sure if you have adult content only adults can attend. Simple as that

There’s a fantastic picture out there of British troops manning a gun emplacement in dresses as the alert went up during their show.

They used to do drag shows in WW2 during downtime from killing Nazis

You’re not trying to get republicans on board like that, are you?

You mean happy to agree, happy to disagree. Depends on who is paying for the vacation this month.

Hmm… better outlaw dancing while we’re at it.

It teaches children about acceptance and that they can be anything they want. Some children find it a calming environment to learn social skills because of dress up

Well, it started with libraries not having people volunteering to read to kids. And then adults who did read to kids wanted to make it fun and engaging for them, so they began dressing up in fantasy outfits and effectively cosplay. And then the gay community heard of it and likely just naturally fell into it. Some gay people grt very very excited about dressing up, doing theatrics, and drag.

The same as an astronaut reading a book about space or a mechanic one about cars rather then a nurse reading a book about ancient archeology. They know what they’re talking about when someone asks a question when they read a book about gender or body dismorphia etc.

I find the comparison to clowns quite helpful, as they fill a weirdly similar niche – in most cases a performance art with clearly defined tropes, based on exaggerated makeup, carefully choreographed routines, while retaining an ability to improvise with a crowd, and of course some people have an irrational fear of them. From that perspective, it makes perfect sense to have them do the reading for kids. The makeup turns them into a cartoon character that kids find exciting; the practice with improv means children, who aren’t always the best listeners, can be managed without harshing the vibe; and their general stage experience and presence helps them retain that tough crowd to get them to listen to the story.

I can definitely see it. When I read to my kids when they were little, I’d at least do the voices and sound effects. However I would never do that in front of people I don’t know, let alone an audience. But I can see putting on a persona would help me drop that inhibition. Maybe that persona is represented by a funny hat or vest or glasses or something, or I can see drag being similar

Yeah that’s where I fall as well. I’m not inherently opposed to it, it just seems like a wierd thing to exist.

Apparently 10 people think we’re transphobic wrong word, uh… dragphobic? for having this opinion too.

Yes, hopefully it would also affect those. If some people think that law could be narrowly used to oppress/repress drag performers, maybe they’ll change their mind after they see it applied consistently and it affects them.

Or I don’t know, maybe overall sexual repression is intended

It might be worth checking out these drag shows rather than just basing your fears off of what appears to be a deep seated fantasy for you (how disturbung that it involved someone exposing their genitals to children?).

That’s not what happens, but ok honey