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  They've seen it somewhere before, and they'd have said it themselves, so they assume we are as hateful as they are, with just a different favorite team.
  I blame sportsball for this type of idiocy.
context: somebody needs to use these laws to sue to stop those toddlers in tiaras type beauty pageants, where they sexualize little kids. >
  
  Ironically enough this new law would classify child beauty pageants as a bannable drag performance. They're defining drag as anything that emphasizes a masculine or feminine body, which covers a shit ton of things that are nowhere near being actual drag. >
  
  You already know conservatives will blame liberals when strip clubs shut down because of their own laws. >
  
  “Why didn’t you stop us?” >
  
  So - will any theater be allowed? How about Broadway productions? 
  Will Halloween be allowed? 
  How is it okay for the government to decide what citizens should wear/do? >
  
  
  Will Halloween be allowed? 
  
  My daughter picks out our Halloween costumes every year. Over the past 5 years that we've done that, she's only been in a female costume once, as Sally from Nightmare Before Xmas. Every other time she's been a male character of some sort. If anyone were to try telling her she couldn't do that, she'd tell them to eat dog poop while I'd have some far less family friendly words for them. 
  This whole Morality Squad bullshit from the right needs to fuck all the way off. >
  
  I mean, fundamentalists HATE Halloween so I don't doubt they'd try to ban it >
  
  CNN needs to start a WAR on Haloween segment >
  
  “Can’t even say All Hallow’s Eve anymore... they want you to say All Hallow’s STEVE” >
  
  Drunk uncle? >
  
  Yep, I’m poaching SNL jokes on Reddit. Definitely a bit depressing. >
  
  Bugs Bunny dressed as a girl bunny is now illegal in Arkansas. >
  
  Not illegal, just labeled "obscene" and thus can only be in adult businesses.  Which is hilarious, because that means if you want to rent Mrs. Doubtfire, you can only do so at a porno shop. >
  
  It's now gotta be 'behind the beads' at the rental place hahaha >
  
  I want someone to exercise/test one of these stupid laws with literally any movie (or any stage production) that has an actor in clothing that doesn't "match their gender". Seriously - "Mrs. Doubtfire" or "Medea" are okay, but "Drag Story Hour" isn't?
  These idiots need to find a real problem to focus on. >
  
  The thing is many HIGH SCHOOL theater productions require girls to play male parts simply because fewer boys participate. These bills would outlaw such productions. >
  
  What about private same gender schools? Are they no longer allowed to do school plays? >
  
  How will they do Supernatural the musical? >
  
  Badly. >
  
  Hmmm no changes then. >
  
  Why am I supposed to be upset if a dude, lady or other wants to wear a dress and makeup? That ain’t my problem. I’m concerned about that 30% “fair tax” act the gop is trying to push on us. >
  
  Idk friend but let’s the let the party of freedom and small government sort this out for us and tell us what we can and can’t do >
  
  Between this and the Kansas abortion law, legislation seems to be increasingly written-like those bullshit "literacy tests" Jim Crow states used to keep minorities (and anyone-else they felt like discriminating against; no discrimination, there) from voting. >
  
  The GOP is sure spending a lot of time thinking about drag shows. >
  
  Whilst you are clutching your pearls worrying about drag queens and cartoon M&M's choices in shoe wear you do not notice US companies hand slipping into your pockets and steeling your money. >
  
  They got you fighting a culture war to stop you fighting a class war. >
  
  
  The original bill defines a drag performance as when one or more performers "Exhibit a gender identity that is different from the performer's gender assigned at birth using clothing, makeup, or other accessories that are traditionally worn by members of and are meant to exaggerate the gender identity of the performer's opposite sex" while performing. 
  
  So, this makes the movie Mrs. Doubtfire and that episode of Bugs Bunny where he dresses like a lady viking and sings opera obscene.   Also that one episode of Saved By the Bell where Screech dresses like a lady janitor, the teen comedy "She's the Man," the classics "Some Like it Hot," and "Tootsie." >
  
  Also Monty Python and SNL. >
  
  
  and SNL.
  
  Rudy Giuliani is officially a porn star in Arkansas. >
  
  Let’s hope that it backfires and bans strip clubs and hooters and see how fast if gets dismantled >
  
  i want to see how many stupid unintended consequences this law will hit. it’ll be hilarious >
  
  Or they can get it enforced selectively & target only the "kind of people" they want to hurt. >
  
  This is what happens when frothy mouthed barely coherent nut bars get in power, they can't even speak without talking themselves in circles, who would expect them to be able to produce a coherent legal document? >
  
  fucking hell, hey Republicans, why are y’all so invested in issues that the government doesn’t even belong in? seems to me these are all things that should be between the individual, doctors, and in cases of a minor - their families. How about addressing issues like inflation, health care, government spending....you know, things that actually effect their lives? 
  I ask this of all my Republican friends who use the word “woke” around me. never get a clear answer. >
  
  
  How about addressing issues like inflation, health care, government spending....you know, things that actually effect their lives? 
  
  Oh, they have a plan for that. It involves abolishing medicare, medicaid, and social security, and putting a 30% sales tax on everything.
  Now I know what you're thinking, "wait, that wouldn't solve anything" and congratulations, you're totally right! >
  
  It would solve the final step of siphoning the very last penny from Americans who don’t have several million in the bank, and make us so desperate for work that we’d accept slave wages. >
  
  Well unless they specify in the law what matches what gender then who's to say? I think a cute skirt and high heels matches the male gender just fine if that's what they want to wear. I mean Scottish warriors wear skirts and Vladimir Putin wears heels. So that's two of the GOPs heroes wearing the wrong clothes. >
  
  Trump wears what essentially are heels as well. Kitten heels, but still heels. Or maybe they started off as stilettos at one point. >
  
  The library is OPEN. >
  
  TFW Mrs. Doubtfire gets reclassified as hardcore porn >
  
  Defining drag in regard to clothes traditionally worn by members of a different gender is useless as a definition because you'd have to define which tradition you're referring to. Are men who wear kilts performing drag? What about women wearing pants? >
  
  These people are so disconnected from what they are trying to legislate against they don't even understand enough about it to legislate against it properly.
  They think a drag performance or someone crossdressing in public is always like a public sex show because that's what's swirling around the right infosphere over and over. They literally have no idea what they are trying to define and regulate. >
  
  That's because the purpose isn't to fix any real problem, it's all for the spectacle. Doesn't matter if this actually hurts people, the show is the part that matters. >
  
  We thought the Roe V Wade hullabaloo was just for show too until our rights were stripped away.  Don’t presume they won’t pass it if they have the chance >
  
  Ignorant and hate laws >
  
  What else would you expect to come the gop? The gop don't know how to govern properly so they create laws to push hate in an effort to possibly get attacked, thus resulting in them playing the victim.
  EDIT: Spelling H to K. >
  
  
  drag performances are defined as when one or more performers "Exaggerates sexual aspects of the masculine or feminine body for entertainment purposes" while performing. 
  
  So... basically any public performance with any skimpy clothing or anything that could be regarded as "sexual". >
  
  I haven’t been to a lot of drag shows but I don’t think any of the ones I’ve been to would meet this description. >
  
  Have you ever seen a TV broadcast where the anchor had blush on? Well, that's a no no. >
  
  I read the title and I am not going to lie. At first I was afraid. I was petrified, kept thinking that Arkansas wasn’t by my side. But then I spent so many nights thinking how they did their law wrong. And I grew strong. I learned how to get along. >
  
  I hope it applies to catholic priests and talent show fundraisers. Or even the traditional ballet versions of Cinderella. >
  
  So even in modern times Peter Pan is often played by a young woman in theater productions of Peter Pan. So does this mean they can’t do that anymore? Seriously it does have implications for other random people >
  
  How do you determine clothes don’t match a gender? Who goes through and labels every possible type of clothing as either male or female appropriate? Who then inspects the genitals of every performer to make sure there’s a match? Does the law apply to intersexed people? If men can’t wear makeup, what about all the men on tv including news anchors that wear makeup?
  More importantly, why are we letting our infrastructure crumble while we worry about this clown shit? >
  
  
  More importantly, why are we letting our infrastructure crumble while we worry about this clown shit?
  
  Because that's what the Southern Baptist Church cares about.  Until we separate church and state in this country, there will be no progress and no attention given to real issues.  Only the grievances of the Baptists who still haven't gotten over the 1960s. >
  
  Sounds like they are outlawing entertianment based on sexy female models like females wrestlers, fashion runways and sexy female spokesmen. >
  
  Are they just admitting that drag shows turn them on? They’re sexualizing the entertainment. >
  
  Please, oh please let it accidentally target drag racing . . . >
  
  It doesn’t matter if they can’t actually make any charges stick. The point is to give bigots and cops, who at least 85% are Republicans, and whose ranks are filled with white supremacists, neo-nazis and fascists of all stripes, the green light to harass and attack trans and gender non-conforming people in public. >
  
  "Tootsie and Mrs. Doubtfire banned in Arkansas!" >
  
  How fucking stupid must you be to try and keep people from dressing like they want, and performing. >
  
  The idea is to go back to the days of the 1970's and before when local cops got to decide how everybody looked and acted. By keeping it vague, they can claim anything they don't personally like is a violation, shut it down, and arrest the performers. (Or the audience, depending on how much they dislike it.) I wouldn't be surprised if people making a political speech were arrested  for 'suspected eyeliner while on stage'. This is the country they want: Book burnings, police raids on political speech, no Public Schools... The GOP is building a nightmare world. >
  
  Right Wingers are morons >
  
  Confusion is the point.   Fear is the point.
  They aren't going for governance; they are going for oppression >
  
  If the standard for what they want to regulate is now "Exaggerates sexual aspects of the masculine or feminine body for entertainment purposes", then does this involve steroids usage? Breast implants? It just like padding your groin? Bubble-butt implants? Are they coming after Hooters???
  Sounds like the AK legislators are just tired of getting confused boners when they see drag artists, and they want the feelings to stop! >
  
  The “party of small government” again telling citizens what they can/can’t do and wear. Thought these dummy’s loved their freedumb…? >
  
  Would a KISS concert be banned? >
  
  (Psssst -- that'sthe point)
  These new pieces of anti-queer legislation are designed to be vague enough that authorities can interpret apply them however they want as justification for locking up whomever they want. It's literally fascism 101. >
  
  So with Walmart being an Arkansas company, will they now have to add a register prompt asking if the gender of the clothing or halloween costume a customer is purchasing matches their apparent gender? >
  
  I wish these asshats would actually do their jobs and govern to solve real problems. >
  
  Quentin Tarantino movies gonna get banned from movie theaters in Arkansas because of their exaggerated foot fetishism. >
  
  It’s just to draw a new thing to perjure into the spotlight so they can demonize it any which way from here on out.
  Sorry to all the drag queens out there, you don’t deserve that. >
  
  "Exaggerates sexual aspects of the masculine or feminine body for entertainment purposes" 
  so, wearing a bra, backless dress, skirt with a slit, muscle shirt, tuxedo … >
  
  
  The original bill defines a drag performance as when one or more performers "Exhibit a gender identity that is different from the performer's gender assigned at birth using clothing, makeup, or other accessories that are traditionally worn by members of and are meant to exaggerate the gender identity of the performer's opposite sex" while performing. 
  
  You mean like gaudy makeup and a wig? >
  
  Hitler banned women from wearing pants lol. >
  
  The vagueness is on purpose. They propose these bills to rile up their base but then they either don't get out of committee or get narrowly defeated or get struck down by the courts because they are unenforceable. But then they can go back to their constituents and tell them that they stood up to "wokeness". >
  
  It's not about drag it'd about criminalizing Trans people >
  
  GOP are such idiots. >
  
  Men should not wear women's clothing is  pretty clear.
  Until you start braking down what men and women's clothing is. Then it just becomes confusing. 
  However vaguely/poorly  written laws which may favor defendants in court, can still be used to intimidate them in everyday life. A threat that some will comply with. >
  
  The party of freedom: The government will dictate how you dress. >
  
  At least Milton Berle is trending for a somewhat less salacious reason than usual. >
  
  Lawmakers making bills/laws that are so vague as to be incomprehensible? Well I never. >
  
  Dr. Frank-N-Furter does not approve >
  
  Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups >
  
  This seems to be a common theme for state Republican bills. They’re so busy implying that drag shows endanger children and that anti-racism teachings demonize white folks that what they describe in their bills ends up with no connection to anything happening in real life.
  Granted, they’ll probably try to use the bills against drag shows and anti racism teaching, regardless.
  Edited for spelling. >
  
  Republicans-if it is done by them behind closed doors, other people can't do it in public. >
  
  First drag show I saw was Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. I don’t see how dressing as nuns could be seen as in violation. 
  They clearly just want to ban shows with a specific type of cross dressing. Which would never hold up even with this scotus >
  
  You can’t fix stupid! There are so many of these idiotic Christo-fascists running states like Arkansas, Texas, Florida… and out of the other side of their faces they also claim to love freedom! >
  
  I would LOVE to see every actor that did a role in drag (I'm talking to you Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Dustin Hoffman, John Leguizamo, Wesley Snipes, et al) do a PSA about this. >
  
  One of the weaknesses of fascism is their cryptic bullshit can backfire. The evil they wish to inflict has to be obfuscated for any chance of it working. But if the lie it too much, instead of evil you only get confusion. 
  Make them say the quiet part out loud. >
  
  The GOP are finding that it is basically impossible to create legislation that excludes Drag performers (or just persons in Drag) from public spaces without being overly narrow that it doesn’t exclude most Drag events or overly broad that it could be applied to non-Drag performances. 
  Most drag performances I’ve seen have been no more sexual than a Katie Perry or Taylor Swift concert. Drag story hour and Drag brunch are basically just normal events with persons in Drag present. The more risqué performances I’ve seen always happened in a bar/club type venue where there wouldn’t be any children anyway. >
  
  The writer didn't want it to. >
  
  The GOP is the most emasculated group of “men” to ever exist, this just proves it, so sad how insanely lame and inept and morality devoid they are. Losers. >
  
  Im glad were spending time on this instead of actual global and domestic issues. >
  
  No comments from the closeted lesbian governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. 
  She must have been busy flirting with female reporters half her age; trying to get them into bed. But what else is new? >
  
  Assuming every homophobe is a closeted homosexual is hacky, c'mon. >
  
  You do it with the male politicians all the time. 
  How come the right-wing women are exempt? >
  
  Who is this “you” you keep mentioning? This commenter? All internet users? What portion of internet users? Back up your claims, please. I’m pretty sure the people calling you out would call those people out too, rather than imitating the behavior with no irony, and then pretending it was ironic or rhetorical. I mean, who would even do that, right?