There’s several Shakespeare plays involving cross-dressing. So basically they’re going to outlaw Shakespeare.
Republicans see no issue with banning Shakespeare and any other expression of art
Or knowledge. Keeping their constituents dumb and illiterate is the only way they can get votes.
The only book you need is the Bible and the only art is the CROSS. If you have time for entertainment you have time to work and if you’re a kid, go see your local pastor for “work”
– them, most likely
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 and inferiority present in 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.
The longer the Americans focus their attention to the culture war, the less likely they pay attention to economic issues.
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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.
Economy is gone, look at the cumulated inflation over the last few years. And depleting Treasury.
The economy is great, if you’re a rich billionaire, according to Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-07/us-economy-is-strong-so-americans-should-stop-worrying-about-it
But the everyday person is struggling and Republicans aren’t going to do anything about that.
This is exactly why the 1st amendment is so important.
I have no idea who down voted you, but here, have it back.
I drove through a tiny rural town, population 4300, in my province earlier this summer, which barely has enough people living there to support running a donut shop, let alone any sort of drag venue, and some idiot had signs at the end of his driveway saying “No more kids at drag shows!”. I mean, it’s literally the asshole of northern Ontario, a drag queen has never had a reason to go anywhere near there, he’s obviously never left the town in his life, let alone seen a drag queen in person, and yet he paid to put up signs on his driveway people will mostly ignore about a subject that has nothing to do with him. Conservativism really is like a brain fever or something. The things they believe are so exquisitely stupid.
Anyway, I love drag and want to marry Naomi Smalls, and I’m hopeful this psychotic legislation in the US all gets struck down.
He’s probably hoping for a protest against him with drag queens in attendance.
Probably so but the thing is most people wouldn’t even notice his signs, I just happened to look up as a passenger at the right second, and he lives on a rural highway with few neighbours. He wants attention but isn’t going to get it.
This feels so stupid. There are people out there that really want to ban such shows? It’s an art like any other. What’s next, ban street mimes? Make improv ilegal?
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.
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…
Not ban, just make sure if you have adult content only adults can attend. Simple as that
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
Lap dances and pole dancing are not the same as a drag show, but while we are on the topic. You cool with me whipping Jesus in public, then nailing him to a fake cross with fake blood running down his face?
The topic was first amendment. Stay in context. Either acknowledge that it’s not a good argument, or accept that they are “the same as drag show” within that context.
Not even sure what the Jesus thing is about, but I suppose everything is being allowed under the pretext of first amendment so why not. It sounds like an enactment which is a - what did people call it - an “art form”.
I know of a judge who would be happy to disagree… once he’s back from his 5th vacation trip this month.
You mean happy to agree, happy to disagree. Depends on who is paying for the vacation this month.
Well since his friend the nazi billionaire is the one always picking up the tap…
Ordinarily I’d say no shit. But with Clarence getting a free ride…
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A classic 1st amendment case for inspiration. https://youtu.be/oNsdMFCXH9M (video)
You’re a special kinda
The reddit red mafia came to Lemmy.
I find the whole concept of drag queen story hour confusing. Drag is this kind of specific performance art that seems like it is custom tailored for stage performance, so doing drag queen story hour seems as random as doing “the cast of the broadway musical cats!” story hour or something like that. What’s the idea behind putting drag queens + story hour together at all?
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.
Really?? Huh, well there you go. I’ll switch my status from ‘indifference’ to ‘supporting.’ No one ever took me to the library to have books read to me.
That’s really sad. I have treasured memories of going to the library and having one of the librarians read a picture book. I took my daughter to the library for the same reason when she was little.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to libraries these days, by the way. My wife is a library administrator. This town has less than 80,000 people, but the library has three 3D printers 100% free for use, take-home kits of things like a ukulele with an instruction book, an HTC Vive and a PS5 for teens to play with any time they want, and they’re building a new branch that includes a room (one person at a time with a lockable door) with a free washer/dryer and a shower!
Support your local library. Go there. Have fun. Buy something at the book sale to throw them a few bucks.
Our library is awesome in that way too. They have 3d printers as well, and they invest a lot in online resources as also. LinkedIn learning, Rosetta stone, O’Reilly’s entire learning catalog, and a ton more, all free with a library card. AND they have a lot of good services for the homeless as well. I actually sent my city councilwoman a letter asking to increase funding to the library.
I might just do that.
Great! I hope your library is at least as good as ours.
That’s pretty interesting! Do you know of any good articles that trace the history going that far back? Seems like it would be a good read.
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
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.
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
transphobicwrong word, uh… dragphobic? for having this opinion too.I think both drag performers and Broadway actors have the perfect skill set for reading books to kids. It’s like the difference between reading the lyrics to a song and hearing a musician sing it, regardless of whether they’re a country singer or an opera singer or a movie music composer. An actor, whether Broadway or not, would know exactly when to pause to create dramatic tension, be able to give characters their own unique voices or personalities, etc. And the fantastical, exaggerated costumes of drag I imagine just make it all the more exciting for the kids.
As for how drag performers reading books to kids started, I have no idea, but somebody else said it started from people volunteering to read books to kids at local libraries, and the LGBT community got into helping out in that way, which led to drag performers doing it. And that makes sense to me. The LGBT community seems to be heavily made up of people who want to support their communities. Probably because they’ve often had to band together and create their own.
Yeah another commenter explained that to me so it makes sense now.
I care much less about the trans position on this as much as I see SB12 affecting things like strip clubs or onlyfans
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
The fuck they are not hahahhahah. Me showing my dick to small kids is protected by the 1st amedment hahahhaha lol
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
I hope not. Why do we waste so much time on this stupid shit.
Username checks out. Fuck off, fossil.
Yes, why waste so much time trying to prosecute obviously protected expression?
