And Then There’s Just Dog Dump Ignorant
Texas State Representative Bryan Slaton thinks a major problem in Texas is allowing children to see drag shows.
I gotta admit that I love drag shows. Back when we were having lotsa of problems the Catholic Priests, I announced that Ru Paul was the only man in a dress that I trusted. Now that it has turned into Southern Baptist preachers being perverts, I have decided that that the only man I trust in a loud, obnoxious suit is Captain America.
Anyway, back to drag shows. Slaton wants to ban children from attending a drag show. Now while you’re wondering if that would include clown costumes at the circus, or muppets who are male but handled by females, or powder puff football for graduating seniors, let me tell you how this came about.
A group sponsored by the LGBTQ caucus in Houston volunteered to do drag story time for children at the public library. The place was packed every Saturday morning with preschoolers and their parents. Ben was 4 when it started and his Mean Parents (they won’t let him eat ice cream for breakfast) took him. He was charmed. He told me, “Gigi, they wore costumes! Shiny costumes! And we all had fun.”
He was 4 years old and he understood drag.
I wonder if Slaton knows that Shakespeare’s female roles were done in drag? I think he doesn’t know. I think he’s an idiot.
You know what is annoying like a dripping kitchen sink about Republicans? They want government out of our lives except when it comes to good, clean fun.
Why are all these Republican men so obsessed with what they view as sexual/perverted? Oh….wait….nevermind.
1Ah, that’s what Lauren Boebert was babbling about on the Twitter machine. I guess at least her babblings have some context now. I have a great money making idea for Google, Rosetta Stone, or whatever software person wants to take this on. Design a program that translates right-wing word salad into plain English. Like when the Georgia GOP woman running for governor started babbling about the guidestones. We need a translator for that.
2This whole thing causes me to wonder if these Republican men ever spent any time with their own kids. Every kid loves dress up and pretend. What do kids care or even know about sexual behavior?
3In my whole life I never heard any discussion of sexual behavior until I moved to Rockwall, Texas when I was 52. Those hard core republican women talked of little else but ‘deviant sex’. They also got the talking points sent from the RNC every day. Porno, high school football and republican talking points was all they knew. SMH
**If only** the faux outrage conservative Qcumbers were limited to Texas. But. Prime example #1 Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was recently on the US Senate floor faux raging about TFG as having been referred to as “President Dump.” Grassley should be strapped to a chair to listen to the endless obscene references tRump made about women, minorities and ‘others.’ From Alabama to Wyoming the QOP is filled with hypocrites.
Meh. We sane folks object to TFG as evuh having been referred to as “president.”
4Well, I have to say I never heard of the Guidestones before, and Ms. Looney Tunes got me to research them. They are fascinating, and I’d love to see them..next time I’m in Georgia (cough).
5I had the chance some years ago to attend a Royal Shakespeare Company performance of Twelfth Night. RSC is very scrupulous about performance practice, the actors are all male, the costumes are hand woven fabric, the music is period correct, etc.
The plot of twelfth night features the female lead costuming themselves as a man. A testament to the actor, a man impersonating a woman, the character played was impersonating a man. And he nailed it, a convincing woman, and what was clearly a woman impersonating a man for the first time. (Getting a bunch of gestures with just the right amount of error)
My only regret about the occasion was that we weren’t able to get tickets to that weeks other performance, Richard III.
6The GOP has walked in lock step since the Nixon era. That’s why, even though I’m a college educated straight church going grannie, I would be deemed a socialist, Marxist, baby eating pervert, or whatever the current slur is.
7Is Slaton afraid kids will want to cross-dress? Or that they’ll want to read books? Equally terrifying for the GQP.
8In 1967 my kindergarten teacher had a box of dress up clothes.
Cross dressing all around. Every school day. I don’t remember any kids banned from the dress-up box because of crazy parents or some nutty butt pastor.
Later though there was album and book burning. It all comes back around huh?
9Of all the problems in Texas really affecting people, he’s worried about this? He’s probably a closet pervert, too.
10As a child, I loved to clomp around in my grandmother’s pumps. Likewise, I have a great picture of my daughter, about age 5, dressed up in tights and a tiara next to her younger brother who is wearing a tutu. That little guy in the tutu is now 6’4″ and quite cis-het. Dress up is fun.
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