Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues his holy war against female impersonators. Somebody posted video on line of a child at a Miami establishment where the waitstaff and entertainers are in drag, so DeSantis and Florida Republicans are hot to protect innocent children from seeing a dude in a dress.
They can't come up with any ideas on how to protect children from AK-15-wielding homicidal maniacs, but I guess they find drag queens armed with trays of mimosas to be, if you'll pardon the expression, an easier target.
Apparently, there's this organization called Drag Queen Story Hour, and it has right-wingers' panties all in a wad. Men continuing the tradition of Milton Berle, the Pythons, Barry Humphries, and the Kids in the Hall dress up in drag and sit down with children to read them stories. It was started in 2015 in San Francisco (but of course!), now with chapters in 27 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia.
Have no doubt about it: the Not-So-Hidden Agenda of Drag Queen Storytime is to show genderqueer youth that if they don't fit into the rigid dichotomy of Macho Males and Dainty Females, it's okay to be who they are. And to foster tolerance of those non-conforming children among the kids who are comfortable fitting into that dichotomy.
The Not-So-Hidden Agenda of DeSantis and his Inquisition, however, is to promote intolerance and conformity. Joe Kort, writing in Psychology Today, notes:
Outrage over these Drag Queen Storytime sessions reveals other dark underbellies of our society—misogyny and homophobia. Think about it: If women dressed as men were reading the stories, there might be no problem. But men dressed as women? Such an assault on the nation’s ideal of masculinity is intolerable to many.
Well, the Sexuality Inquisition will no doubt get around to the scourge of women dressed as men in short order.
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