Big Biz embracing drag queens as marketing shills seems like a distraction. We’ve mocked Hershey’s and Bud Light, and it looks like Jack Daniels did something similar two years ago, but no one noticed (really) until this week.
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Lost in the pandemic haze (or a drunken pandemic haze)?
JD, unlike Hershey’s – which chose a man portraying a stereotypical caricature of women for International Women’s Day (the actual offense) – thought it was being inclusive.
The whiskey makers said at the time that it was “a bold new experience—for both the queens and their hosts,” while Lauren Richmond, then-brand manager for Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Fire, noted the campaign “reaffirms our commitment to the LGBTQ+ community” despite being an “unexpected partnership.”
More like fishing for style points, if I had to guess, but it has been 22 months since the folks from Lynchburg, Tennesee, embraced Drag. Getting riled up about it now seems silly, but it’s not.
“Jack Daniel’s gets drag culture—which is all about celebrating individuality and inviting others to accept you as you are,” Trinity the Tuck, one of the drag queens involved in the campaign, said in a statement.
Drag has a strong connection to the LGBT movement, which is not the problem. The militant activists front the “band,” and the more recent “normalization” of the transgender agenda has become the tip of the spear for the radical among them. To be fair, many in the LGB portion would divorce the ‘T.” They oppose grooming kids, drugging them, mutilating them, and engaging in the government school equivalent of ‘transition’ “therapy” without parental knowledge or consent. Porn in schools is a no-go for them as well. They want to be left alone to live with their choices and equally free to object, but that’s not allowed, not even for them, and that’s the problem.
People who were incapable of living with who they are or how they were born won’t let you be who you are or how you were born. You have to accept them, use their pronouns, and celebrate their weird hobbies, and any objection is discrimination or bigotry. My knee-jerk reaction is to double down on the free speech they suppress. Some folks like to boycott. If that’s who you are, be you.
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As for Drag Queens, we’ve long found them an insulting vaudevillian stereotype of sex-show performance art that has no place around children. Adding a storybook in a library setting doesn’t change that. The only Drag Queen story I’m interested in is the one about why men (often) gaudily dressed in clown-caricatures costumes of women feel the need to be around your children. Oh, and why do Progressive politicians and activists want that too?
It’s creepy. And yes, I know the answer, but they need to say it out loud, and on that point, the day before the JD Drag PR hit my inbox, I stumbled across a piece from Seth Barron titled, “In America’s grim funhouse reality, the confusion is the message.” It’s short, to the point, and worth your time, but I must share this bit about Drag Queens.
I think of clowns, and the way they invariably cause at least some children to cry, whenever I see pictures of Drag Story Hours. It’s always the same thing—a few heavily made-up drag queens posing as grotesque caricatures of women, looking basically like a gay misogynist’s nightmare fantasy of a devouring, castrating bitch-mother; some librarians or other regime functionaries silently taking attendance; a bunch of downmarket loser parents trying desperately to opt out of their loathed cishet whiteness and score some cool points which they hope to roll over into the coming social credit system; and, finally and most importantly, a handful of children looking confused and bewildered.
And…
There is no connection between drag and literacy. The primary argument I’ve heard is that it teaches tolerance—but for what and for whom? Drag is not an identity; it’s a job or a hobby. Drag has been used in university seminars as a metaphor for the performativity of gender, but that’s a little recondite for the 5-year-olds in the average Drag Story Hour. Nobody, not even the most pronoun-forward among us, calls drag a gender.
Drag is cosplay. If you are an adult, and that’s your thing, either as a performer or a consumer, be you. But injecting it into the lives of children is weird and creepy and more about preparing the battle space of their minds for every other paradox of the progressive project.
- Supposedly pro-black policies keep people of color trapped in poverty.
- Anti-crime agendas that increase crime, especially violent crime.
- Pro-women priorities that alienate and risk the safety of women.
- Their Economic policies wreck the economy.
- The Left’s Immigration policies destroy the benefits the immigrants came here to enjoy.
- Public health policy that is bad for public health.
- Their Education monopolies churn out kids who can’t read or do the math.
As for Drag, Seth Barron notes, it is a hobby. Drag Queens do not spend all day and night, 24/7/365, in Drag. The idea itself is a lie. It is a persona they do when it suits them. For some, it is an occupation. For others, a side hustle. And then some just like to dress up as women. But in every instance, it’s temporary, fleeting, transitory (see what I did there?). They can walk away from it. But progressives and radials are using it to inculcate children with confusing images they then use to push them toward a gender transition that is not temporary.
You can’t just walk away from it.
There’s no setting it aside. De-transitioning does not make you who you were before, especially if you were coerced into surgery. But the doctors and therapists get to keep their money and maybe make more for the return trip. “Experts” cash in at the expense of culture war casualties who – when they speak out, have their story or struggle diminished or denounced as if they have no right to be that person.
Drag used to be a fringe hobby. These days it is used to normalize a culture that confuses kids, many of whom will commit suicide because of who someone else wanted them to be. Pawns expended in a political pursuit children are no more mentally able to understand than the clowns paraded before them.
It’s ghastly, and it needs to stop.
Be you, but if you are a drag queen, be you in front of adults, please, and if the adults don’t get it or don’t like it, that is them being them. f you can’t accept that, move along. As for Big Biz, you are not being inclusive or accepting. You are fomenting a war whose victims are children.