I don’t think the issue is the acknowledgment that there are bad actors in all areas of life, but that you seem to believe that drag queens disproportionately consist of bad actors, when compared to say… youth football coaches or church leaders (which my personal experience would tell me are much more likely to behave sexually inappropriately - see how important it is that we understand our own bias so that we don’t make sweeping generalizations about people based on a single facet of their identity?). This seems to be founded in your belief that they are “sexually confused”, which I personally don’t believe there is evidence of. Gender is well established anthropologically to be a cultural construct that is distinct from sexual orientation or biological sex. Ultimately, the reason why it’s “hard for you to imagine why [they] don’t see it” your way, is because there are fundamental differences of experiences and beliefs. Which is why your opinion is interesting, but ultimately not something that you can convince everyone else around you of (nor should you). Drag story time, like any other childhood activity, is something each parent should be able to decide about for their own children. We don’t all have agree or make the same choices for our kids, but we should be free to make those choices.
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There is a serious problem around the issue of sexuality in conservative christian culture. There is this idea that all sexual desire &/or efforts to address sexual desires is sinful. Because of this many feel guilty thinking about sex at all which can have some really bad side effects. One of which is just a general lack of knowledge & understanding related to their own sex drive. If you deny it even exists you certainly can't learn to deal with it in a healthy way. So they push much of their sex drive into their subcounsious where the lack of awareness causes it to become even more unhealthy & distorted & to haunt them from the shadows. In this way, many Christians literally create their own demons.
The stereotypical Christian relationship with sex is fairly analogous to anorexia or bulimia. But often, as a reaction & rejection of the dysfunctionality around sex in Christian culture, people on the left become "sexually obese," for lack of a better way to explain it. Both are very unhealthy. This sexual obesity devalues the act into something akin to a handshake & that has an equally negative impact on mental health.
In the case of coaches or priests, there is nothing inherently sexual about those roles or their relationship to kids or other people. Yes, of course, if any of them are guilty of having sexual relationships with kids, they should be killed or castrated or whatever is necessary to keep them from ever doing that harm again. But drag queen shows are, & always have been, inherently sexual performances. Attempts to pluck sexual performers out of their normal setting & to make children see them as trusted adults or as some form of role models is *extremely misguided,* to phrase it as nicely as I can.
There is a high correlation between homosexuality & different forms of abuse. The homosexual community has a very real pedophilia problem that few people have any desire to acknowledge or address. People who feel the need to wear costumes all the time are rarely healthy individuals who are happy with themselves. Actors & actresses (professional pretenders) also tend to be pretty screwed up people. Now, I think all of those are accurate statements, but they are based on broad generalizations. Just like if I said judging by the demographics of the NBA, black people must generally be better at basketball than whites. Broadly generalized facts are not bigotry. But NONE of that means we should treat any individual who is or identifies as any of those things any differently (which would be bigotry), UNLESS they are trying to unnaturally insert themselves into activities involving kids.
I see how you would come to the conclusions that you have, with the beliefs that you have. From the research I’ve done on the subjects this touches on and the data that I’ve analyzed, I don’t hold the same underlying beliefs and have therefore come to different conclusions. We’re going to have to agree to disagree on this one.
Well. Fucking. Said. Except the Christians not fucking part. They know what's up and are banging out future families all over the place. The old monikers of prudes, etc. no longer apply and they will quickly replace the suicidal degenerates who occupy 1/1000th of the space but are backed by every institution on Earth. Yeah, they know what they're up against. And that's not the sole reason. Those kids were/are sexualized the same in school but the difference is they have based assed parents. So they're still gonna fuck, and it results in a baby, that's great, vs maybe my arm skin penis dick can impregnate your axe wound and we can tagteam chestfeeding for insta hashtag solipsism fame. It's fucking retarded. None of these people will breed, which is perfect. And that's where the line should be. But since they can't have kids now, they need to come for yours. People are done. Sorry i'm ranting but whoa is shit about to pop off. Ok, settling back into my fire gazing. #grownostr #buildnostr #AgendaChristianFucking2030