(01-07-2023, 02:17 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(01-07-2023, 01:56 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: If I see a straight man in a dress, I would think maybe he has this unusual compulsion, perhaps bordering on mental illness.  It's someone doing something he could avoid doing, and which can cause harm to himself.  It's definitely not normal.  I would wonder what's going on in his head that would cause him to want to do such a strange thing.  Sort of like if a guy wanted to shave off his eyebrows.  Weird.  

On the other hand, if I see a gay guy in a dress, I think, there's a gay guy trying to "gay it up," so to speak.  It's a gay thing.  Some of them want to do that.  I don't care.  

As far as "exposing my kids to their lifestyle," that's a parental decision.  I would probably explain my feelings about it to my child.  But I don't think a normal boy would ever want to wear a dress, no matter how many cross-dressers he encountered.  Exposing your kids to weird people isn't going to make them want to be weird.  

When's the last time I hung out with a guy in a dress?  Never.  I did put on a dress one time, many years ago, as a joke at an office I worked at.  I think someone dared me to do it.  It was Halloween.  The office girls found a dress that fit me, and some low heels, and a wig, and I put them on and walked around the office.  

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No.  The motivation to write the law doesn't matter, as long as the law applies to everyone equally.  For example, civil rights laws were motivated by white people discriminating.  But those civil rights laws should apply equally to everyone.

I really don't understand what you're trying to do here. The law should be that children are not permitted at Drag Shows and those who bring them Drag Shows are commiting a crime. The Drag Show is the issue because it's sexual exploitation of the child for the child to be present. That law should apply equally across all Drag Shows the same as we have a law that applies to strip clubs. This shouldn't even be controversial but you really are going to the mat for this one for some reason.

So, now we're going to have to start the whole conversation over again.  

Why do you want to ban kids from seeing drag shows?  Define what you mean by "drag show."  Men wearing dresses and singing, pretending to be Liza Minelli or something like that?  How are kids harmed by seeing that?  Is it going to make the boys want to wear dresses?  What exactly are we talking about here?

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