The outrage really makes you wonder what happened to the “parental choice” mantra Republicans have been pushing lately.
The obsession on the right is really questionable when you hold up drag to other performance art forms. I’ve yet to see a lawmaker or activist up in arms claiming that the garish make-up of a circus clown as being confusing to young minds.
s throughout the years. Ironically, while patriarchal norms encourage the latter to earn a living off of their sexuality, both are accused of leaning too far into the feminine and are demonized for it. It’s truly a lose-lose out here at times for the non-masculines of the world.And it has to be said that the current campaign goes beyond political posturing.
last week at a library in Alameda County, California. The sheriff’s office has opened a hate crime investigation after the crowd shouted"homophobic and transphobic slurs at the event organizer.”that they were sitting with librarians singing a song to welcome the kids when “eight to ten Proud Boys marched in with their cameras outstretched.” Chu said that one of them “had an AK-47 shirt that said ‘kill your local pedophile’ on it.
There are still men and women who want so badly to see gender norms rigidly enforced that they will harm others to do so.