"I think kids need to better understand how to critically think and digest content"

this is my mission in terms of having kids. i want my kids to have all of my good traits and none of the bad as much as possible. I want my kids to live freely while being wise, and i think the best way to instill these values is thru understanding who they are as individuals and supporting them.

when it comes to sex, i just am not so concerned because in my day most kids wasnt rly f***ing like that, i think it will still be like that in the future, the kids who was doing all that s*** was usually kids with rly bad relationships with their parents

ultimately i think if im happy and living my best life they will follow suit

@op don't know why I didn't see this earlier when I logged in. My bad. I'll read the rest of the replies as well but yeah sitting down and teaching a toddler about drag in the form of the book that was posted is ridiculous.

Teaching kids about Drag Queens/Drag Shows and other LGBT movements should happen if you want your child to be a knowledgeable and productive non bigoted member of society. For the same reason you should teach your children about multiple religions

With that being said there's an age when that's appropriate and talking to toddlers about drag or by extension sexual liberation movements or sexuality period is inappropriate for a child that age.

Also, it's not about shielding toddlers from seeing same s***couples, I don't know why that became the topic.

Yes your child should know men can be with other men, women can be women, and you shouldn't try to hide that fact from your child but diving into sexual movements is strange and inappropriate

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Toddlers was the discussion
No that is not okay

Depends on which drag performer and what age?????

Like nina west is definitely for all ages including toddlers
Ms ma’am has her own duet w kermit from the muppets: reddit.com/r/rupaulsdragrace/comments/o9bq04/nina_west_and_kermit_the_frog_singing_rainbow

Whereas someone like sami landri whose performance is in many ways about vulgarity maybe can wait lolol

The only correct answer.

They were privately hosted events a company I worked for catered that didn't have any age restrictions, and some kids were there. Personally wouldn't have brought a kid there, esp after walking in on people doing ketamine in the bathroom lmao

I mean if you say yes then you're gonna banned lol so why even ask

Couple people said yes and weren’t banned afaik. But yeah I almost tagged a mod and asked for some leniency for people to answer honestly

It’s hard to try to soothe peoples fears when they aren’t allowed to speak them

Not gonna raise my family in some big/fast/progressive city like California or New York for some attention seeker trying to prove a point to come in contact with my elementary or younger aged son.

The state I live in was boring but I never saw no s*** like that in daily life lol

Exactly. There should never be a zero tolerance policy for opinions as long as you keep it civil. I feel like i should say i'm very open minded and totally cool with trans rights before people attack me

Yeah I live in progressive Southern CA and I’ve seen very few drag queens in person lol. It’s almost exclusively just a gay club thing and obv the show has brought a lot more eyes on it.

But what do you mean by attention seeker trying to prove a point? Do you think the readings and other public events are just attempting to create controversy?

I think that if someone is in drag at a gay club or even some type of parade or whatever do your thing. but if you’re going into family establishments/restaurants to try and come into contact with children/families to bait certain reactions then yeah

Not familiar with the readings and whatnot you’re referring to

Definitely not, bc I’m not a bigot

not saying I’d explicitly bring it up either, but ‘shielding’ is a very active, very questionable decision to take

saying shield like it’s not some very niche thing you have to purposefully go out your way to see lol

Lol what's there to shield someone from just don't go to the shows

Yes. My children will only be exposed to athletics and books

As a Muslim who's queer I'm so excited to answer this lmaooo

Not rn but I fr need to think about it, but with the upmost respect for drag queens, probably not.

"with those little pieces of s***"

NY do not be having s*** like that out in the open daily though lol

I live in NY, only way you'll find a drag queen is if you're actively looking for one most of the time

But do you really think people dressed in drag coming into a restaurant would be doing so to bait families? As opposed to just having a fun drag date with their friends or coming before/after a show?

You gotta remember the world is still a dangerous place to be publicly gay, and even more dangerous to be publicly in drag or publicly trans. I don’t think many queens are out here tryna risk their lives just to get a reaction out of some middle-aged Trump dad