{"id":54393,"date":"2020-01-20T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=54393"},"modified":"2020-01-19T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T20:20:44","slug":"a-drag-queen-speaks-out-against-drag-queen-story-hour-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/01\/20\/a-drag-queen-speaks-out-against-drag-queen-story-hour-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"A Drag Queen speaks out against Drag Queen Story Hour for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepostmillennial.com\/watch-drag-queen-destroys-drag-queen-story-hour-and-woke-culture\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Libby Emmons<\/a> reports on a rare bird indeed &mdash; a Drag Queen who doesn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s appropriate to have other Drag Queens visit schools and libraries to read to pre-teen kids:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Drag Queen Kitty Demure has taken to Twitter to speak out against the sexualization of children by woke people co-opting drag culture and rebranding it as an educational tool. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have absolutely no idea why you would want [drag queens] to influence your child. Would you want a stripper or porn star to influence your child?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A friendly message to mothers who want their kids influenced by drag. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dragqueensarenotforkids?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#dragqueensarenotforkids<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dragqueenstorybookhour?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#dragqueenstorybookhour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/drag?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#drag<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/moms?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#moms<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/woke?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#woke<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Liberals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Liberals<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EmOovz4E3F\">pic.twitter.com\/EmOovz4E3F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kitty Demure (@demure_kitty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/demure_kitty\/status\/1218697036515532800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Demure notes that just as you wouldn&#8217;t take your kids out to see porn stars or strippers read stories while in full dress and makeup, you shouldn&#8217;t take them to see drag. There&#8217;s an effort to introduce kids earlier and earlier to adult sexuality. The idea is that this will help kids be more open-minded and understanding about the difference. What it really does is normalize deviant adult behaviour in children&#8217;s minds and override their own instincts. Giving children access to sexual content makes them think this kind of thing is for them, it opens doors that should stay closed until a child is of age.<\/p>\n<p>Demure says here what all of us know: drag culture is adult entertainment. The look is sexualized. The names are sexualized. In fact, the entire concept of drag is a send-up of beauty queen culture. Beauty queen culture is sexualized as well, and while that is sometimes subsumed beneath the surface, it&#8217;s obviously fully part of it. That&#8217;s what drag plays on. Drag can be lots of fun, but it&#8217;s grown-up fun, not for kids. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Drag-queen-story-hour-Twitter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Drag-queen-story-hour-Twitter-480x494.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"494\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-54394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Drag-queen-story-hour-Twitter-480x494.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Drag-queen-story-hour-Twitter-622x640.png 622w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Drag-queen-story-hour-Twitter-146x150.png 146w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Drag-queen-story-hour-Twitter.png 646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libby Emmons reports on a rare bird indeed &mdash; a Drag Queen who doesn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s appropriate to have other Drag Queens visit schools and libraries to read to pre-teen kids: Drag Queen Kitty Demure has taken to Twitter to speak out against the sexualization of children by woke people co-opting drag culture and rebranding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,79,66,53,13],"tags":[374,196,298,255],"class_list":["post-54393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-education","category-health-science","category-politics","category-usa","tag-children","tag-lgbt","tag-libraries","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-e9j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54398,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54393\/revisions\/54398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}