If the world made sense, men would be the ones riding sidesaddle.
Texas has no business claiming to protect women in any event, not after implementing some of the nation's most draconian laws regarding pregnancy termination. I actually overheard a woman who had experienced difficulties with pregnancy in past talking about her OB/GYN's recommendations on future attempts. The doctor told her not to get pregnant in Texas. 𝑵𝒐 𝒅𝒐𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒆. The very idea that women need to be protected from men wearing their clothing when that sort of recommendation is being made by physicians in the same place just highlights the incongruity here.
As a woman, there are plenty of things I do worry about. Men raiding my closet for a nice dress isn't even on the potential list; I neither need nor want protection from that. If you're not going to provide me with actual protection, stay out of my life and stop using me as an excuse because I'm not buying it.
“If you’re looking for people who want to harm women, you won’t find them at a drag show; you’ll find them in the state legislature.”
You’ll also find them at church as well, running the church and sitting in the pews.
When being called a woman is the very worst thing you can call a man, or wearing women’s clothing is considered the very worst thing a man can do and will lose him his so called man card, and like we learned this weekend, his life, dressing in drag is a radical act of respect for women. It is not “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny”. The misogyny comes in all aspects of the folks standing out against drag, not from the men celebrating women.
I shit you not. When I was a kid, the high school group in my very conservative church put on a drag show. The only offense was to the gods of talent and artistic taste. Otherwise nobody cared. This current edition of right wing moral panic is the stupidest one yet.
What we really need are a bunch of daycare centers run by the Satanic Temple and staffed by men in burkas.
The religious right will never have all the control over people they want. Nothing is ever enough for them. If not drag queens to vilify, it would be someone else. They use their religion as a cudgel to beat people into submission. They can't win from their pulpits, so they are fighting a rear-guard action through government with an authoritarian top-down approach to the culture wars they lost a long time ago.
The original movie "The adventures of Priscilla Queen of the desert" date back from 1994, the poster is from the musical show in 2018 or 19. I wasn't offended then, I am still isn't https://www.billetreduc.com/215428/evt.htm
Gonna bring Madison and Jefferson into it to try and justify your Christian-fueled bigotry? James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were Deists, not Christians. To them, 'Creator' meant something very different than it does to you and your brethren.
By the way, Jefferson only wrote the word 'creator' once in his first draft of the Declaration of Independence. And he did so in lowercase. The other three mentions of that word plus its capitalization were added later of Jefferson's strenuous objections. As for Madison? The architect of the US Constitution makes no mention of the word 'creator.' Nor is there a single mention of your religion and its deities. It does mention that there should be no promotion of religion nor a religious test for public office. And that 'Year of Our Lord' at the end of the Constitution is simply an outmoded dating system. Both Jefferson and Madison went to great lengths to keep religion and governance separate.
“derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny, no matter the stated intent.” (More on that later.)"
This is misogyny. Don't talk for me as if I am brainless. Would you banish clowns next bevause them too caricature humans ? You are so proud of your bigotry and willfull ignorance you don't even want to recognize the difference between blackfaces and Drag Queens, there is Drag Kings (curious how they are often "forgotten"), I never heard of whitefaces. No reciprocity = abuse, reciprocity = satire which cultures/society need*.
* I read once an article in Awal (the anthropology magazine DM worked for) about Amazighs (Morocco) or Kabyles (Algeria) women' songs. They were overlooked for a long time but when they were studied 2 majors themes appeared : love songs and satire.
"𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐚 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐨𝐟 '𝐓𝐨 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐀 𝐌𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝', 𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭"
- Wanda Sykes
If the world made sense, men would be the ones riding sidesaddle.
Texas has no business claiming to protect women in any event, not after implementing some of the nation's most draconian laws regarding pregnancy termination. I actually overheard a woman who had experienced difficulties with pregnancy in past talking about her OB/GYN's recommendations on future attempts. The doctor told her not to get pregnant in Texas. 𝑵𝒐 𝒅𝒐𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒆. The very idea that women need to be protected from men wearing their clothing when that sort of recommendation is being made by physicians in the same place just highlights the incongruity here.
As a woman, there are plenty of things I do worry about. Men raiding my closet for a nice dress isn't even on the potential list; I neither need nor want protection from that. If you're not going to provide me with actual protection, stay out of my life and stop using me as an excuse because I'm not buying it.
And well done to Mr. Seidel.
“If you’re looking for people who want to harm women, you won’t find them at a drag show; you’ll find them in the state legislature.”
You’ll also find them at church as well, running the church and sitting in the pews.
When being called a woman is the very worst thing you can call a man, or wearing women’s clothing is considered the very worst thing a man can do and will lose him his so called man card, and like we learned this weekend, his life, dressing in drag is a radical act of respect for women. It is not “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny”. The misogyny comes in all aspects of the folks standing out against drag, not from the men celebrating women.
If drag is inherently harmful, it's presumably usable as a weapon, and therefore protected by the 2nd Amendment.
If drag isn't a threat, then how do you explain my boner? Checkmate, Atheist!!
I shit you not. When I was a kid, the high school group in my very conservative church put on a drag show. The only offense was to the gods of talent and artistic taste. Otherwise nobody cared. This current edition of right wing moral panic is the stupidest one yet.
What we really need are a bunch of daycare centers run by the Satanic Temple and staffed by men in burkas.
Wonder what Wendler made of "Tootsie" and "Mrs. Doubtfire"? Did he think they were documentaries?
Was Wendler traumatized by Bugs Bunny as a child? Did he grow faint at the sight of Milton Berle?
The religious right will never have all the control over people they want. Nothing is ever enough for them. If not drag queens to vilify, it would be someone else. They use their religion as a cudgel to beat people into submission. They can't win from their pulpits, so they are fighting a rear-guard action through government with an authoritarian top-down approach to the culture wars they lost a long time ago.
For Ceiling Cat's sake, America's Dad, Tom Hanks, had his first break in drag.
https://youtu.be/3UI_JwF3cnA?si=Z0p8gyyZbYSqm9e3
The original movie "The adventures of Priscilla Queen of the desert" date back from 1994, the poster is from the musical show in 2018 or 19. I wasn't offended then, I am still isn't https://www.billetreduc.com/215428/evt.htm
"Madison and Thomas Jefferson, prisoners of the culture of their time as are we"
Try suggesting that when they mention the Second Amendment though.
On my bucket list:
Party with Lucien Greaves (of the Satanic Temple) and Andrew Seidel (not necessarily at the same time, but that would work!).
Six anti-religious men in drag...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKWjuEn5FX8
The audience seemed to appreciate it. :)
Hey, Wendler...
Gonna bring Madison and Jefferson into it to try and justify your Christian-fueled bigotry? James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were Deists, not Christians. To them, 'Creator' meant something very different than it does to you and your brethren.
By the way, Jefferson only wrote the word 'creator' once in his first draft of the Declaration of Independence. And he did so in lowercase. The other three mentions of that word plus its capitalization were added later of Jefferson's strenuous objections. As for Madison? The architect of the US Constitution makes no mention of the word 'creator.' Nor is there a single mention of your religion and its deities. It does mention that there should be no promotion of religion nor a religious test for public office. And that 'Year of Our Lord' at the end of the Constitution is simply an outmoded dating system. Both Jefferson and Madison went to great lengths to keep religion and governance separate.
“derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny, no matter the stated intent.” (More on that later.)"
This is misogyny. Don't talk for me as if I am brainless. Would you banish clowns next bevause them too caricature humans ? You are so proud of your bigotry and willfull ignorance you don't even want to recognize the difference between blackfaces and Drag Queens, there is Drag Kings (curious how they are often "forgotten"), I never heard of whitefaces. No reciprocity = abuse, reciprocity = satire which cultures/society need*.
* I read once an article in Awal (the anthropology magazine DM worked for) about Amazighs (Morocco) or Kabyles (Algeria) women' songs. They were overlooked for a long time but when they were studied 2 majors themes appeared : love songs and satire.