• Takatakatakatakatak
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    -771 year ago

    I for one am fucking sick of hearing about this particular subject. Why is anyone talking about this?

      • @cricket97
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        -81 year ago

        Are you child? If not, it doesn’t affect your rights, as this law applies to children.

      • Takatakatakatakatak
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        -371 year ago

        Nah, maybe just that it is fuckall business of government and they should concentrate on real issues instead of poking their nose into what clothes people wear?

          • Takatakatakatakatak
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            -361 year ago

            Drag shows are not a real issue, no. You constantly engaging with it as if it is one is exactly what these fuckers want.

            • Flying Squid
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              321 year ago

              I don’t think you realize that if they ban people from wearing clothing counter to their biological sex on stage, it is quite easy to make that law apply offstage as well. This is a step towards making it illegal to be trans and yes, it is a real issue. Maybe you don’t care about trans people’s rights, but I sure as fuck do.

              • @Ensign_Crab
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                71 year ago

                Maybe you don’t care about trans people’s rights, but I sure as fuck do.

                He does. He prefers they have none.

        • prole
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          181 year ago

          Yes. That’s literally the issue being discussed here that you seem to think is “too boring”. You agree with the general sentiment here. Who are you mad at?

          • Takatakatakatakatak
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            -131 year ago

            I’m mad that you all keep giving them traction by engaging with this toxic shit.

            Everyone is well aware of their motivations, but keep falling for it anyway. This is a wedge issue.

            • @kmkz_ninja
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              91 year ago

              “The only way to beat them is to just let them pass laws against people they dislike because otherwise, a lemmy user will get annoyed”.

            • prole
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              51 year ago

              Totally. It’s lemmy that’s giving these stories traction… my bad, I guess I didn’t realize the pull we had here 🙄

        • That is the small government republicans are advocating for to bring back “freedom”. Aka enslave poor people, protect richt criminals and tell people what they can and cannot wear. God forbid money being spent on education, healthcare or infrastructure.

    • @affiliate
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      401 year ago

      i am not an expert on the subject but i would imagine it’s because it has implications for the safety and legal rights of trans people. if they’re able to pass laws banning drag queens, they might then start (incorrectly) claiming that trans people are drag queens and thus those laws apply to them.

      • TechyDad
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        271 year ago

        Exactly this.

        Step 1) Declare that all drag performances are sexually explicit and therefore shouldn’t be allowed near kids. This is false, of course. There are plenty of PG or G rated drag shows where nothing even remotely explicit happens, but they need this lie to be enshrined into law.

        Step 2) Declare that trans people, by existing, are “performing drag in public.” Again, false, but this would mean that trans people wouldn’t be allowed to be dressed in their preferred gender anywhere there might be kids. Even simply walking through the grocery store would be declared “sexually explicit behavior in the presence of children” and could result in criminal charges.

        The right will stop at nothing to enforce their radical Christian views on the country and they don’t care whose lives they ruin to do this.

      • prole
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        41 year ago

        Not even just trans people… you know the end game of this kind of shit is to go back to a time where women don’t wear pants (because they legally can’t).

      • @cricket97
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        -41 year ago

        They’re not banning drag queens, they’re banning sexually explicit drag shows for children. Drag shows are still 100% legal.

        • Solar Bear
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          1 year ago

          They think all drag queens are sexually explicit and will enforce the law accordingly. The laws are also nearly always written such that they affect any trans person simply being in public.

          • @cricket97
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            -71 year ago

            most drag queens are sexually explicit and I’m tired of pretending they’re not.

              • @cricket97
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                11 year ago

                The government shouldn’t be able to force people to dress in any way or not to dress in any way.

                What? You realize public nudity is illegal right?

            • @jordanlundM
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              41 year ago

              There is a difference between burlesque shows and drag shows. There is some overlap in the venn diagram, but not all drag queens are sexually explicit.

              The real question to ask, is if they are SOOOO concerned about sexual performances, why aren’t they banning heteronormative burlesque performances?

              Oh, right, because it’s not actually about being sexually explicit.

              • @cricket97
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                01 year ago

                Read the bill. It explicitly says “sexually oriented performance”. And only in front of minors.

                • @jordanlundM
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                  21 year ago

                  It specifically calls out drag shows. If you believe that all drag shows are inherently sexual, there wouldn’t be a need to say:

                  “(B)AAa male performer exhibiting as a female, or a female performer exhibiting as a male, who uses clothing, makeup, or other similar physical markers and who sings, lip syncs, dances, or otherwise performs before an audience; and (2)AAappeals to the prurient interest in sex.”

                  • @cricket97
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                    11 year ago

                    Maybe theres some confusion here. I don’t think that every single drag show out there has sexual elements in it. I’m sure there are some people who can put together a show that is kid friendly enough. But there is a lot of inherent sexuality in drag, people know this but they pretend not to admit it when this conversation comes up. There’s some pretty intentionally raunchy shit happening at some of them and a lot of drag queens did not appropriately reform their normal act to be suitable for kids. And i get why, because theres a fuckton of sexual stuff in drag shows. its in the culture.

                    Thus, if we actually look at the bill, it doesn’t outlaw drag shows altogether. it outlaws sexually natured drag shows in front of children.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      241 year ago

      You keep hearing about the GOP vilifying and persecuting LGBTQ+ people because it’s against the supposed ideals of the country and the GOP keep doing it. If you want news about LGBTQ+ issues to stop, you need to make the GOP stop.

      • Takatakatakatakatak
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        -371 year ago

        You are being distracted. Focus. You CAN eat your local representative. One bite at a time.

        People don’t need to know what is in the chilli at the cookout.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          231 year ago

          Innocent people being villified, persecuted, attacked and oppressed isn’t just a “distraction”, it’s a serious problem that’s heading towards genocide.

          We can chew bubble gum and walk at the same time, by which I mean deal with this AND their other fuckery.

          • @cricket97
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            -41 year ago

            It’s actually very simple. Don’t do sexually explicit shit around children. You are free to do it not in front of children and this law has no bearing on that.

            • Flying Squid
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              Why are you defining drag shows as inherently sexually explicit? If a man wears a flowing dress with bloomers underneath, is it sexually explicit?

              • @cricket97
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                -51 year ago

                You know that’s not what drag shows are. I’ve been to 3 different ones (with a group of a friends, not on my own) and every single one had some serious sexual undertones. The default means of “tipping” was tucking dollar bills down the drag queen’s shirt, or simply tossing it at them like a stripper. They twerked with very revealing clothing on, etc. I wish you would just be honest about what drag shows actually consist of most of the time. Of course there are outliers but I think the history of drag shows clearly show demonstrate the inherent sexual nature of it all.

                • Flying Squid
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                  41 year ago

                  You went to three drag shows for adults. That’s not what it’s like when kids are there. Just like there are plays for adults and plays for kids or bands that play for adults and bands that play for kids. I saw They Might Be Giants in a bar after their children’s album No came out. They swore. A lot. You would go to that show and say they weren’t appropriate for children.

                  • @cricket97
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                    -11 year ago

                    One of them had children around there was extensive twerking and other sexually explicit material. “That didn’t happen. And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. And if it was, that’s not a big deal”

        • prole
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          1 year ago

          Ugh, this isn’t a fucking joke, this is people’s lives. You’re allowed to focus on more than one thing too, btw

    • @BradleyUffner
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      201 year ago

      Because your apathy doesn’t negate the attacks that marginalized people are facing.

    • @[email protected]
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      181 year ago

      I don’t know. You’re the one that clicked on the discussion thread. Seems silly to click a link for a discussion on a topic you’re bored of. Maybe just keep scrolling next time.

    • @[email protected]
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      Because republicans keep violating the constitution and trying to marginalize anyone who isn’t white hetero Christian.

      • @cricket97
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        -71 year ago

        funny how people here suddenly care about the constitution when it comes to showing children sexually explicit material.

    • Meldroc
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      81 year ago

      Then read something else.

    • @cunning_bolt
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      61 year ago

      This was never a problem until Republicans tried to start banning it. So that’s why people are talking about it

    • @chiliedogg
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      41 year ago

      Because keeping us fighting over this keeps us from going after billionaires.

    • @ougi
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      21 year ago

      You’re telling people to back down from fighting back against persecution? Looking like a target, bruh

    • @[email protected]
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      -11 year ago

      Because people like you keep trying to raise the suicide rate of an already alarming high rate among the group.