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He was meant to be in my local library today but now cancelled due to weather (Eunice is obvs a bit of a RadFem).

Loads of us have complained to the council and got nowhere - this is in a rural Conservative area.

Ru Paul has made everyone think it's harmless fun when it's just grooming children to disbelieve their own instincts. Totally inappropriate for kids. Still don't get how black face is deemed utterly offensive ( and rightly so) and yet drag is encouraged.

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I don't get it either. To me, drag looks no different than The Black and White Minstrel Shows of yore.

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Spot on. I saw a family in a restaurant (which I'm no longer allowed to go to here in NZ) several months ago. Two parents, one young girl of about 10 and a groomer. How the parents could not see it was beyond me.

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Can't you involve the police? Or just highlight it to the parents to lock up the kids that day!

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Suspect we'd be the ones arrested if we went to our fully stonewalled police!

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Feb 19, 2022Liked by mole at the counter

People need to stop lumping LGB with.TQ + and realise that both groups have completely different aims. Trans ideology is the most homophobic movement seen in modern times ,at least. Stonewall and others are still hiding their agenda behind the group it seeks to erase while stabbing that group in the back. That article by James Lindsay is truly terrifying and he's spot on. This is the most evil movement we've ever seen. A War on Women and Children can never be anything less. Society needs to wake up here before it's too late !! Where are the Politicians ?? Shame on them for allowing this ! They will NOT be forgiven ,👎👎👎

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They need to stop lumping drag with any of it including the T. The people who think a bloke in heavy makeup and an enormous wig will help young children experiencing gender dysphoria, probably aren't referencing the best medical research!

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“Woke” T sparkles are losing their glittering appeal -- unfortunately it’s inevitable the fallout will affect the first three letters of the rainbow alphabet.

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My local state senator made it perfectly clear to me that he was homophobic when young but then decided homosexuality was okay (duh, no). And now he has signed on to the "most homophobic movement seen in modern times" with complete lack of self-awareness. I suspect he has received other comments -- where are you in my county, GC feminists? -- because he blocked me very quickly on email.

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Feb 19, 2022Liked by Graham Linehan

One of the key events of the Southbank Imagine Childrens Festival was an event called ShayShay’s Shape Shifting Shenanigans. It turned out this was a 2hr performance by two drag queens and a women, about being from the sea or the sky, it included reading out a story called Julian is a Mermaid, in which ‘they’ pronouns were used for the boy in the story throughout, and the main point of the performance was that children were shown/told that they could ‘be’ sea or sky or both, in the same way that they could be a boy or a girl or both. (This was actually said at the end of the performance).

This is indoctrination of our children and it seems nearly inescapable!!!

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Libraries have built up well-earned public trust over decades of good work. That’s ruined now too. Everything “woke” touches is diminished, degraded, defiled, and delegitimized.

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Feb 19, 2022·edited Feb 19, 2022

Not to mention undermining trust in libraries at a time when children's chances to engage with books, to learn a love of proper reading are fatally undermined by screens/tech. 'Virtual' fakery has become horribly dominant and seductive. Today's children have no screen-free past to help ground them.

It was bad enough watching the wrong-headed closure of so many UK libraries, but to have remaining ones promote female-degrading, narcissistic, fetishy 'adult' sh*te like this is a travesty of what introducing children to books should be.

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Well, we certainly don't want people to read, they might learn that the Guardian and the BBC and the New York Times are peddlers of propaganda instead of mighty institutions of investigative journalism.

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I don't know if it's been true in the U.K., but libraries have often been poorly managed here in the States. Our shiretown "free" library -- which requires people from my town to pay -- has the poorest collection of books imaginable, having sold off actual valuable books. Shelves of garbage romantic fiction, one tattered copy of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple." I'm not saying all libraries are this low-quality, but this is the one library I can picture having drag queens with hard-ons reading to children.

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Sorry to go on, but I am so angry about this happening to the children. In libraries of all places, former safe havens for little ones.

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You don't have to apologise - one of the most difficult things about this emotionally for me, is that I can't really talk about it or express myself outside here. I never thought I'd ever have to argue about this stuff. It's mind boggling - I'm so angry too

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Sheila Jeffreys' argument that drag (whether done as part of 'trans' or otherwise) is womanface which ought to be condemned just as much as blackface, is very strong.

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What on earth are the libraries thinking of? And why do parents of small children take them?

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The caption under the third photo in the BBC article reads "Aida H Dee says society had progressed so much in the last 50 years and is excited to see it go further." Is he showing his excitement in that photo too?

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If a man shows how excited he is to be with children in this way, he should never be allowed to be around children. Do those who organise there events never think? How can they ignore something so obvious? They need to be cleared from their jobs as they too present a danger to young children simply for their ignorance. Will it take the abuse of a child/children for the authorities to decide to take action?

Sometimes I am ashamed to be British

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Put me right off my lunch

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That is just vile.How can any parent think this is okay ?? He doesn't even hide it !

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It doesn't look as though there's a lot to hide, does it, but who wants to see it? I wouldn't normally comment on size but I couldn't gaf about this inappropriate bloke's feelings.

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So, all these places are happy for a man who performs a sexualised parody of women to come and read to kids, but I don’t see any women doing sexualised parodies of men reading to kids.

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Feb 19, 2022·edited Feb 19, 2022

Indeed. Or white people performing degrading parodies of black people to kids.

I'll never understand why so many fail to see Drag as the same kind of performative, insulting shite as blackface, with knobs on. (!) Plus fetishy, narcissistic and in this context where the aim is drawing children in, grooming.

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Here's the link to the York Art Gallery drag event (for 4-7yrs) if anyone wishes to raise concerns: https://www.yorkartgallery.org.uk/curious-takeover/

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Have a look at that link. They've responded to comments about the event. I'm sure you can all guess how it's written! The usual propaganda sentences

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Who is responsible for safeguarding at these Council Libraries?

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What are these parents, library authorities and schools thinking (or should I say, not thinking) - purposefully bringing their children/ exposing them to these grooming fests?! 😱 Am so angry, I could spontaneously combust !🔥

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Drag is adult entertainment, kids shouldn't be anywhere near drag or drag Queens, drag Queens shouldn't be grooming kids or Reading them "stories" it's not cute or fun or progressive. It's predatory behaviour, it's telling kids that their fears or worries about certain adults are wrong and bigoted, and if their parents feel the same that the parents are wrong. Did people just forget that at least one of the drag Queens doing this in the US turned out to have been a convicted sex offender? That often abusers seek out work or volunteering that puts them in close proximity to potential victims? Like for fucks sake!!! (sorry for profanity, long day)

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Parents already tell their children it's wrong to be scared of creepy adults. Even my parents did this; they had one male friend whom I tried to hide from though I liked his wife. The parents' radar was destroyed when they were children and now they're passing it on.

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Just started watching the video and it's all pretty scary!

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I started listening to the James Lindsay video and had enough after a minute. No one in woke culture that I have come into contact with has the least interest in "revolution." I have no respect for people who toss around the word Marxist with absolutely no idea what Marx wrote, Marx being an ardent believer in material reality.

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