JCC ABC's Good Morning America praises an 11 year old drag kid being at a gay strip bar

interview with another drag queen:



short ben shapiro video on it (i know, conservative, booo...) go to 1:02 on this one to see the kid actually on the stage.



and apparently other stuff like this is going on as well?

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article1959155.html

okay... seriously. what the actual **** is going on with this? how is this being treated like a good thing?

 

Uhhhh... I'm just gong to say it.


Get the **** out.

 

me or them?

 

You

 

so you have no problem with this? really?

 

I have more of a problem with you being irrationally afraid of a child who is different from you. Grow up.

 

what part of 11 year old stripping on stage are you missing here? that's totally illegal.

or the miami herald, 13 year old stripping on stage?

you're okay with this?

 

You ask the weirdest questions.


Why do you care? How is this hurting you?

 

...

because you seem to be okay with the sexual exploitation of minors? how is this an okay thing that shouldn't be cared about?

 

Nice straw man.

I'm done with you... later.

 

Yeah, go away. Manufactured outrage drives enough idiocy on facebook.

 

you throwing this at me and making me into a homophobe is a nice straw man. ignoring my very pointed question about legality of minors stripping on stage for adults? that's just being blatantly obtuse.

if that's the general attitude here, that minors stripping is alright, then i'm done with this place permanently.

wow... just wow. okay.

 

Its disgusting and wrong. Part of the reason I'm getting away from all the news

 

From what I saw, the 11 year old danced fully clothed. I'm guessing there's nothing illegal about that? This example seems more permissiveness than exploitation. It seems to be more about a kid who likes to dress up in drag and dance. I wouldn't let a hypothetical kid of mine dance in an adult club, but it's not my kid.

According to the article, the 13 year old resulted in several arrests and what looks like zero tolerance, as it should have. Not sure what more there is to say.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexua..._pageants#Consequences_of_child_sexualization

This has been going on for a very long time. The reason you're taking flack is that it's conveniently shocking again when the spotlight is pointed on a male expressing femininity.

 

Dancing, fine. Stripping, bad. For minors that is. It's pretty easy.

 

Children stripping is bad, but so is framing it in a misleading way (the drag dancer and the stripper being two different people). Oh, and it's hard to take anyone who posts a Ben Shapiro video seriously.

 

Okay, so i’ll try to translate ... drag shows are not particularly about titillating the audience. They’re about supporting performers while they are being themselves. Offering dollar bills doesn’t mean, “get naked with me later, “ it means “I support you in your work of surviving in the world.” Historically, people who participated in drag were shunned and denied opportunities to support themselves at traditional jobs. Drag was a way for these individuals to get cash to live on. That’s the background, not heterosexual fantasies about sleeping with exotic dancers.

Edit: dunno if it’s great for children to participate in a forum traditionally associated with adults. But I also don’t know that it’s great for kids to act professionally in general.