The Demise of the Drag Queen
A Hijacked Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Etl95iIqQ
The drag queen used to be an icon. It was a form of entertainment and expression. Men would go to work during the day and then dress up and entertain at night. It was a unique and captivating experience where one could go to let loose and experience something that was so different from the norm.
Drag shows were perfect for a girl’s night out; you could go for cocktails or drag bingo. And with drag being considered a gay art form, their community adored it as well. It was a fun experience for all. A sanctuary for gays and a night on the town for straight allies. It was a place to make friends, enjoy oneself, and then go home to regular life and rest up before work the next week. It was an outlet for all people. It was a nice contrast to the mundane. It was a night away from the kids.
The kids.
Don’t you know? Kids are invited now.
This, right here. This is the demise of the drag queen. Not the colors, or the makeup, or the men dressing as women, not the bows in their hair, not the wigs, and the heels, the fishnet tights, and the dancing. It’s the kids.
What was once a revered 18+ adults-only exclusive club is now entertainment for all. And this is where they lost me. When you have something that isn’t for everyone, it creates this sort of “cool kids club,” a fringe part of society where you can meet other unique people like you. It’s something special. And you feel super awesome to be a part of it. But when you take something that’s fringe and you make it for everyone, you remove the essence of what made it special to begin with. What once was a creative experience is now forced into every aspect of your daily life.
They have normalized drag culture. Which to me, doesn’t create acceptance at all. It instead waters down drag into something no longer unique and vibrant but instead just something you should accept and move on.
And the way they are doing this is shoving it down our throats and kids’ throats. The drag queen isn’t just for adults. You should dress up your son in a rainbow tutu and your daughter in the most boyish outfit you can find and head on down to the drag show. Bring your rainbow-colored pencils and activities and your stack of dollar bills so your children can hand them out to the drag queens. And oh, the drag queen performances are equally as provocative. They’ll be doing their same routines but in front of your 7-year-old instead. Teaching them about love and acceptance and choosing new genders!
But when did being a drag queen turn into woke trans ideology? Being a drag queen used to be men dressing up in women’s clothes for the fun of it, the sport of it, to break ideological norms, and work it, girl! Now that it has become so normalized in our daily lives, even for our children, it has assumed an entirely different metaphorical significance. It serves as a transport system, a gateway for teaching your kids to affirm a gender different from their sex. Here, drag is not treated like an art form, it instead has been shaped and molded, morphed into what the leftist trans community wants it to be. How will drag queens fit into the radical trans agenda?
Drag went from being a place where the gay community could thrive and instead has been hijacked by trans youth advocates and moms wanting their kids to be “special.”
This creates a complete and utter disservice to drag queens.
By lumping them into the leftist trans community, they’ve taken their identity away from them. This targeting of children hasn’t helped either. Because now not only have you sanitized an entire culture but you’ve made it so extreme that you’ve lost support from a majority of drag fans. When I once would be excited about brunch and drag bingo, I now feel obligated to refuse. And this is due to the way the radical TQIA+ community has taken such an interest in everyone’s kids. I don’t want to hate drag queens, I want to reject the part of the community that has crushed the spirit of drag. I want to go into my hot tub time machine and visit drag in the 2000s. I want to see it as an art form, not as a norm that is being forced upon society.
And this woke TQIA+ community will be the first to turn around and call you transphobic. Even though you were once their ally. They’ll be the first to correct you on pronouns and every term in the book that they’ve created for the TQIA+ community. They change the rules when you’re not looking so you mess up. And they’ll shame you. They will publicly shame you. They’ll call you a bigot and a phobe. And they’ll point their rainbow-painted, nail-polished fingers at you. In the hope that you crumble to their hate and you’ll succumb to the peer pressure they exert.
And I don’t include the LGB community (and some conservative Trans) in this because I believe there are many of them that are fed up. They don’t want to be categorized with the psychosis of left-wing extremists. They want to live their lives. The lives that they fought hard to achieve. The rights that they fought hard to achieve. And they’re being force-fed ideology that they don’t believe in. They don’t want kids to transition. In fact, transitioning in a lot of ways is an attack on the LGB community. How many feminine boys who are merely gay are instead being transitioned? How many girls who like girls or even tomboys are being transitioned? We need to let these kids grow up and decide for themselves when they’re older. When their frontal lobe is further developed. After they’ve experienced puberty. We won’t let kids get tattoos but we’ll let them take castrating puberty blockers. We’ll let them cut off their penis. We’ll let them chop off their breasts. And if you speak against this. You’re TRANSPHOBIC!!! TRANSPHOBIC!!! TRANSPHOBIC!!!
In the heart of the storm, you need to remember this has nothing to do with drag queens. It has everything to do with obeying.
– F.W
Sources
InQueery: Trixie Mattel Breaks Down the History of “Drag”
It’s Time to End This Gender Madness. We LGBs Need to Divorce the TQI+s | Opinion
Myth #10: Drag queens and kings are transgender
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