Newsflash: Women dressing up as women is scary for some women!

[geminiwench]

Hear more at 11!

My friend, to celebrate Pride Month
engaged the local library
to host Drag Queen Story Hourand she is quite surprised

Comments

[daphnep]

I read about this. It makes me feel despair.
For a moment, I guess...but then also, aren’t they really just showing their asses? There are only 70 of them, after all. Sometimes I do the math and remember “there are more of us than there are of them.” More people filled with love, more people who support people of all kinds. Yeah. I’ll focus on that.

[geminiwench]

Here is the trap I see in that thinking

[daphnep]

I'm not saying majority support makes a thing right.
I'm saying that majority support for a thing I believe to be right helps keep the despair away, when the minority is in power and really awful.

[geminiwench]

How dare you say things I can't argue with!

[daphnep]

My despair is sometimes big enough to argue for both of us. ;D

[geminiwench]

I have never recovered from listening to the Lincoln/Douglas debates (as performed by Straithairn/Dreyfus, which is a great way to experience it) which completely revealed to me the Conservative vs Progressive method and *how* those debates are purposefully derailed by privilege in an act of malicious sabotage of subtlety and a concerted misdirection of actual purpose

[limonatafic]

they were SHOCKED to find out that the public library does not ALLOW adults unaccompanied by children to attend child-centric events unless they've signed up as a volunteer and passed a background check - I snort-laughed!!!

Sometimes drag can strike me as sorta misogynistic (when the call is coming from outside the house, anyway) and idk yet how to resolve that fully but in the MEANTIME this is RIDICULOUS and I hope these 70 "people" each apparently claiming to represent 7.144 mothers are promptly shut down AND disinvited from craft time!! (which like. 500 is kinda a low goal, I feel? So it's vaguely amusing to me that they set such a low goal and are still failing utterly. Amusing and worth some schadenfreudey celebration!)

[geminiwench]

I think calling drag "misogynistic blackface" was their only entry into polite conversation since you CAN call out sexist/racist action, but you CAN'T call gay people 'faggots' anymore or call story-time a "gay agenda about pedophilia" and still get published in the newspaper

[limonatafic]

God, I hate that kind of dogwhistling garbage. Those people sound like THE WORST and I hope the event went well enough despite them? I couldn't tell when it was scheduled so idk if it's happened yet.

Well, as I said, it's not something I know a lot about and I'm hardly espousing some sort of "everyone's going to hell" or "doing it with bad intentions" perspective. I don't think it's setting out to hate on women, and I know there's a long and valuable political history, but I guess I meant that sometimes aspects of how that occurs can seem maybe not ideal, or a little complex at least. Anything that helps break down gender stereotypes is something the world could do with more of, though.

[geminiwench]

I did a music show of Pacific Northwest musicians who are gay, gender-queer, or allies... and I found a great interview by Kurt Cobain. How in High School when he became friends with a gay kid (that everyone else apparently already knew, and Kurt was sorta obtuse about or "just didn't notice") and how he when he became friends with this guy, he saw the way the bullies began treating HIM differently. More beatings, more jokes, fewer people willing to talk to him.. and that it actually, saved his life because now he saw... there were weirdos like him. He wasn't alone. He wasn't GAY, but that didn't matter to Kurt, he'd rather SAY he was gay and see their open rejection than be straight and have their secret hatreds hidden from him. Now they had a **reason** to hate him, rather than just his being *different*, and now he had a way to understand it. And he also now had a friend, and that was a game changer