If you are an adult and into drag shows (being in them or watching them), that’s your business. I don’t care. But I oppose subjecting children to these degrading sexualized clown shows. And the President of Texas A&M finds them demeaning to women.
“Does a drag show preserve a single thread of human dignity? I think not. As a performance of exaggerating aspects of womanhood (sexuality, femininity, gender), drag shows stereotype women in cartoon-like extremes for the amusement of others and discriminate against womanhood. Any event that diminishes an individual or group through representation is wrong,” Wendler wrote.
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“As a university president, I would not support ‘blackface’ performances on our campus, even if told the performance is a form of free speech or intended as humor. It is wrong. I do not support any show, performance or artistic expression which denigrates others—in this case, women—for any reason,” he wrote.
Forward-thinking women and men have worked together for nearly two centuries to eliminate sexism. Women have fought valiantly, seeking equality in the voting booth, marketplace and court of public opinion. No one should claim a right to contribute to women’s suffering via a slapstick sideshow that erodes the worth of women.”
You’ll find similar sentiments in these recently added remarks by (no longer a registered Democrat) Tulsi Gabbard.
There is no greater expression of hatred and hostility towards women than to try to erase our existence as a category of people and to minimize us to being a construction of anyone’s imagination.
Amen, sister of the traveling objective truth!
Now. Let us repeat, echo, renew, and reaffirm that if all the adults in the room consent, it’s none of our business. That includes mudwrestling, tossing midgets, furry conventions, and whatever they do at Spring Break these days. Consenting adults deserve a wide birth when it comes to making choices about their idle amusements if they do not harm others, just like they do with first amendment rights to association, redress, religion, and speech, especially the sort others may find offensive. Wide berth!
Everyone is entitled to express an opinion about the value of everything, including these ‘past times’ for or against. That is how adults work things out as individuals, couples, groups, communities, states, and nations, and the higher up that chain you go, the wider the berth necessary.
As for drag shows, the present vaudeville-esque misogynistic cartoon-like stereotypes of women. Feel free to be offended, but isn’t it more offensive for so-called forward-thinking liberals to imprint that image on children’s minds? We are not just subjecting them to a wholly age-inappropriate characterized sexualization. We impress upon them that a man in clown makeup acting like a sex worker is a reasonable (sensible, plausible) example of womanhood.
A form of cultural proselytizing with which they are so obsessed that they demand adults dressed like caricatures of women in terrible makeup perform for other people’s children.
The President of Texas A&M has nailed it, if not to the castle church door in Wittenberg, then at least the internet’s virtual door. The left is preoccupied with making fun of women while encouraging men to mock them using stereotypes Democrats claim to despise.
And they are proud of that. They brag about it. Defend it. It’s a hill to die on for them. But it is not a positive image, nor is it empowering unless by which you mean empowering men to erase women and decades of progress, those nearly two centuries invested in eliminating sexism.
It’s not surprising. The left has been working to undo the emancipation of black slaves since the day it happened, so it was only a matter of time before they came for women. But, like blacks, they continue to lie and insist they are their best advocates.
It’s simply not so.
