1) Something being a performance art and being a sexual performance are not mutually exclusive.

Classical burlesque is a female heterosexual performance art. Male burlesque (Magic Mike) is a male heterosexual performance art. Pole dancing is a female heterosexual performance art. Drag is a male homosexual performance art.

In fact, ALL sexual performances are performance arts.

2) In this same light, would you also believe that there is nothing inherently wrong with kids being exposed to burlesque, including sexual gestures, gyration of the hips & lap dances, given that they are also nothing other than gender-based performance arts?

Drag is a homosexual performance art, its intention being to titillate the audience. This is no different from heterosexual burlesque.

Now, I understand the desire to expose children to drag queens / drag queen story hour etc. is an attempt to provide children with positive interactions with gay people, such that they may grow up to think better of them.

My argument is that exposing them to homosexual burlesque is NOT the way to go about this and undermines the objective. It is clear to me that these machinations are INCREASING aversion to homosexual people, as kids are extremely uncomfortable being exposed to male homosexual burlesque performances.

This post was edited by El1te on May 22 2023 01:35pm

what kinda of adult would even want to twerk for lil kids. pretty obvious what kind. no one is so stupid that they cant see this is a pathway for pedopfiles. so when they argue and make excuses for it its obvious what that person is really about.

pitiful few 'pride people actually come out and say its wrong

I think you're right. I'll keep in mind that you shitpost about things that don't immediately pertain to you irrespective of the importance to others. Thank you for the reminder.

Probably 99% of the time I see an example of what you're talking about it's not something that's in any way harmful to kids. Lots of "omg it was hosted at a bar" when it's 2 p.m. in the afternoon with parents in attendance and everybody is fully clothed.

Just wait until you learn about classic summer camp songs like "Brown Squirrel" or "I Don't Wanna' Be a Duck".

This post was edited by Handcuffs on May 22 2023 01:36pm

It's putting ideas in kids' heads that being gay/trans/drag is OK. It doesn't even need to be actively harming kids.

Nobody is trying to "expose kids to homosexual burlesque".

There is nothing wrong with "putting ideas in kids heads". That's just called learning.

I understand why you might think it's harmful though, since you've avoided it most of your life.

'Harmful to the kids' is damn near impossible to quantify. I'm asking specifically why there's a desire to have people in sexually suggestive outfits dance for kids. Even if we switch it around and say okay this woman is going to put on a thong and dance at a kid's bday party or whatever, it's weird and has never been the norm nor appropriate. Like it's really strange, why is it all of the sudden something like this being normalized?

This post was edited by ofthevoid on May 22 2023 01:40pm

fukn excuses. what ever that chit is if is bad then its just also bad. you want to use bad to normalize ever more gross behavior, like twerking for lil kids. only something a pedo would be about