This is absolutely on brand. Can’t trust these companies to do what’s right.
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Each year, Google sponsors a series of Pride events in San Francisco and other locations for employees and the public. This year, the closing event was a “Pride and Drag Show” featuring popular performer “Peaches Christ,” who was scheduled to perform Tuesday at LGBTQ+ bar Beaux in San Francisco to “wrap up this amazing month,” according to a now-removed internal description of the event viewed by CNBC.
So, during Pride, Google sponsors events held at various locations. And people are upset because someone with a weiner is wearing a dress and a fabulous wig while singing showtunes?
It’s at a gay bar, but it’s also an official employee event, which is weird. I wonder what the expectations are for employees to attend official events. For me, whether it’s a drag show or bowling, I don’t attend most after-hours work events.
Google is still sponsoring the event, it’s just not an employee event anymore. That’s probably how it should have been planned from the beginning.
That said, thin-skinned Christians can not attend if it’s an optional event. The bible is silent about drag shows.
Leave it to Christians to feel victimized and “disrespected” when other people celebrate their own lifestyles. Religious fruitcakes and snowflakes.
Haven’t the poor christians suffered enough??? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I know right? Leave Christian Bale and Christian Slater alone!
Can someone fill me in on wtf is going on with drag in the US?
I’m from the UK, drag is like our longest running joke, and families go to pantomimes all the time. Recently theres been a more direct association with the LGBT community in the popular understanding of it. I’d say that most people’s view on drag here is:
- not necessarily an LGBT thing, though it very often is
- kinda traditional
- can be funny, or just a fun performance
- pretty lighthearted
- not expected to be overtly sexual by default, depends on context
Some of the stuff I see out of the US is bizzare. I realise that the weirder stuff is always going to be amplified in the news, and people are not necessarily trying to show the full context in photos. But I’ve seen shit like
- rightoids getting so worked up that the pickets outside resemble the Gaza Strip or, as I’m reliabily told, the average us abortion clinic
- performances in weird places like libraries
- people watching a clearly sexual show in dive bars with their kids in tow that look like they’re starting at a painting in a gallery pondering the meaning of nothingness and looking way out of place
Like, wtf? Drag isn’t the problem, it’s the weird-ass way that people seem to be responding to it. Go to a show if you think you might enjoy it, read up on the performance or use context ques to understand what kind of drag performance it’s going to be. Certainly don’t go for political reasons and ruin the fun for performers who are just trying to have a good time. But equally, don’t plan shows that are meant to provoke a reaction for political reasons, for the same reason.
And why the right wingers care so much if fucking beyond me. Imagine having enough free time to consider that important enough to spend your precious free time protesting it rather than doing literally anything else.
Just chill, it’s a fucking stage show. It’s like the whole toilet thing again, just hysterics over something inconcequential. I’m trans and fabulous as fuck and don’t seem to consider these issues nearly as important than a middle-aged cishet blue collar dude from Texas who may never have met a single trans person or encountered anything like this outside of the Internet.
Is only fun show, why you heff to be mad?
Republicans in the U.S. have decided that drag shows are corrupting the children. But they can’t stop with just “they’re corrupting the children” now. They’re going after drag as a whole. Because it’s never just been about drag, it’s been about oppressing LGBT+ people. And when they’ve gotten their way and made them fully second-class citizens, if citizens at all, they’ll go after the next group. Maybe it will be Jews. Maybe it will be black people. Maybe it will be something else. But there always has to be a corrupting “them” for Republicans to fight against.
Even worse we have fascist Republicans who have been photographed in Drag and still oppose it. But same with blackface sadly…
Yes, but those people were making fun of people who wear drag. Don’t you see how that is different? /s
Fun fact: it already is about those other groups too!
Not funny if they think you’re part of such a group.
And why the right wingers care so much if fucking beyond me.
It’s modern blood libel. They don’t care about drag; they care about libeling their political enemies as pedophiles.
Would be at least somewhat believable if they were doing something about pedophiles and predators in their own ranks. From over here the Repubs look like a bunch of black people in hoods or something similar ironic.
Yeah, especially after their top man, aka the annoying orange, talked about dating his OWN DAUGHTER if she would not be his daughter (there were other similar quotes).
It’s not lost on non-republicans in the US either. most of the people assaulting children are either republicans or priests. There is a bombasitc member of congress who’s husband (then boyfriend) exposed himself to minors in public. She lied to police for him (Republicans like to idolize the police in the media). Oh and he was 24 at the time and she was 17, so he was dating a minor. The calls are coming from inside the house.
Exactly. They all make it seem as if drag shows were sexual pole dance and strip tease shows. Which is absolutely wild! It’s just a comedy show for f*ck’s sake!
Unfortunately the right wing rags in the UK have started to join on this rabid right wing extremism from the US about drag shows.
Forgetting that christmas pantomimes, a very British institution, are usually performed in drag. We’ve had multiple drag performers like Dame Edna over decades and it was never an issue however if you peek at the rags then it seems drag performers are the downfall of society.
I’ve recently seen a video of one of Tom Scott’s mates who went and did drag. It was pretty interesting to learn about it, but one of the things I had to think of when reading your comment was that in the video it was made very clear that US drag and UK drag are very different. In the UK it stems from performative art, in the US it was different. I can’t recall what it was exactly, but I think that explains the sexual focus in the US compared to the UK
Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUf8-P3d5mk
Also, hello! I’m another Reddit user trying to create the internet I wanted back in the 90’s. No time like the present!
Welcome to the 90’s!
Dude, it’ll be totally radical this time around! No psych!
I have a conspiracy theory on potential Google employees meddling with the algorithm on YouTube to push the far-right into mainstream yet again. It seems like there’s some basis for it.
Well it is their motto right? ‘Do No Good’.
I really, really hate that 98% of our voting population formulates their worldview solely based on the nightly news broadcast that they watch. We’d be in such better shape of we could get either flavor of partisan to care half as much about their own economic power as they do about social issues, and more economic power would translate to more social power.
where do you live that 98% of people watch the nightly news
I wouldn’t have said nightly news, but 98% of people are affected by mass media. Anyone that watches any form of news on the TV or reads the paper. Anyone with a smartphone that searches Google or reads any social media. And of those that don’t, they have people in their life that do and tell them about it.
As much as we would all like to think we’re above it and not affected by propaganda (whether corporate or state) it’s just not true. The only people not affected by media are true hermits, Ted Kaczynski followers, and the Amish.
The south
One where 30% of the eligible voters actually vote?
Same. I live in Dallas and i hate that people think we’re all gun-toting kooks. Our cities are blue and statewide voting is much closer that people realize. A lot of it is gerrymandering and voter suppression.
Can’t trust these companies to do what’s right.
This has to be drilled into the collective consciousness as much as possible. There is no such thing as an ethical corporation, or an ethical company that is for-profit – they simply cannot be ethical, they are amoral by design. If Target or Walmart or Netflix do something that is seen as positive, the only reason is a profit motive, not because they are moving towards being ‘good’.
Can’t trust these companies
That’s all that needs to be said
“Religious discrimination”. I don’t think you can vehemently discriminate against a group of people and then claim YOU’RE the one being discriminated for it simply existing.
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It’s not at work - it’s at a gay bar
Wow, I didn’t know Google was planning to start a war (start a nuclear war)
Do you think it has a cover?
Now tell me do ya, do ya have any money?
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what does a drag show have to do with google?
Well it’s a regular comedy show, sometimes companies host such events for their employees. Just like christmas parties or summer events.
Yes. Additionally, as part of the push for diversity, equity, & inclusion, many companies host cultural events to celebrate andi educate. For example, my previous employer hosted an annual Diwali celebration that included henna, food, dance, & trivia. A Bay Area company hosting a Pride event during Pride month is hardly out-of-place or surprising.
