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GerdaVS's avatar

The same was introduced into 'Babylon' Berlin in the 1930th, art and morale cheap and dirty.

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From the HART substack:

https://hartuk.substack.com/p/drag-queen-story-hour?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fdrag&utm_medium=reader2

Worth reading in full:

"The following article was written by Val Fraser, Education Adviser. As Steve Jobs once said “the most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.” Drag shows used to fall squarely under the category of sexual fetish. Now it seems to be en vogue to expose children in primary school to such concepts. There is an instinctive feeling for many that the innocence of childhood should be fiercely protected by the adults in the room. Val explores this controversial topic using the full breadth of her experience gained from working in an educational setting for over four decades."

A few of the points raised in the article include the fact that drag has always stereotyped women and relies on recognition of that to understand and appreciate it as entertainment, which is something children are not developmentally capable of doing. ("The reason Drag works on adults is that we have enough world knowledge to know that this Drag Queen is not a real woman, and nor are they pretending to be. That’s what we find entertaining as adults. We ‘get’ the inversion."....."Drag is an incomplete truth of what a woman is and like any stereotype “robs people of their dignity,” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche).

The author makes the point that the very opposite of childhood empathy and enquiry are likely to result since children are rendered confused and frightened by a parody they cannot understand and that this, in turn, is likely to hamper their language and literacy development.

But then again perhaps this is all part of the Cult plan since illiteracy and mental/emotional chaos and turmoil render people so much easier to control?

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