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Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
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Check your PMS.
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Originally Posted by eccielover
My question is why make an effort to call out "Drag Queen Story Hour events" by naming them that way at all?
Should we put a moniker to all events like the normal "Thursday night old hag feminist librarian Story hour".
Or maybe. "Saturday afternoon craft hour with our resident non gender we/they LGBTQxyz friends"
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Why not? Just don't let it bother you. That's the "Theseus" of the commentary. Either accept it for what it is and let them name it what ever they want. Or try to fight the incoming tide.
I'm sure there would be an editorial opinion in some hard-right periodical if it WASN'T titled for what it was. Some sort of exposé. "Those people" nurturing the young and impressionable.
I see your point, though. Just do it. Just because it's a good thing to do. Maybe they were going for the shock factor. Who really know?
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Originally Posted by Tiny
I’m on French’s side in this debate. That said, eccielover’s got a good point. If a transgender person’s willing to tell stories to kids and the parents and children are comfortable with it then more power to them. But why rile people up by calling it Drag Queen Story Hour?
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Maybe, just maybe . . . for the exposure? As a sign to welcome other members of the community. To grow their program. I try to think openly also. Maybe they want to separate themselves. Who knows?
This is not the point. I drew from it the reaction of the right-wing.
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The fusionism between social conservatives and with the apostles of laissez-faire capitalism and individual liberty that came to characterize the modern conservative movement was an arrangement that could last as long as the social conservatives could stomach the choices being made in the liberal world. Now there are drag queens at the library. So the bargain is in crisis.
The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher, for everyone: “I wish I had a neat, clean answer to this argument among two bright, articulate conservatives. It’s something I think about all the time as I try to settle this same argument within myself. I have never been able to reach a satisfying place, but this dispute is exactly the one the Right needs to have right now.”
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