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  Not just misunderstand you, but actively working towards oppressing your rights and freedoms, complete with both threats of and actual violence
context: Why are they not protesting in front of Catholic Churches? >
  
  Or Boy Scout troops?
  
  Sex-Abuse Claims Against Boy Scouts Now Surpass 82,000 >
  
  As an assistant den leader, it amazes me that they let it get that far out of fear of how people would perceive them. If they went ahead and took down these kiddy diddlers as they were being reported, they wouldn't have lost so many people joining the scouts and being sued into oblivion.
  So many abusers could have been outed and taken down by law enforcement with the amount of reports they had from families. >
  
  Because the boy scouts and pedophilia go hand in hand with protecting hierarchies. I think it's inevitable that a patriarchal organization like the Boy Scouts would end up harboring pedophiles, same as the church, same as right wingers.
  It's all the same thing, and it's projection all the way down. >
  
  There's some merit to the consideration of maintaining hierarchies here; I was active in the local/regional Council in the late 90s/early 00s and the Old Boys Club attitudes ran deep. 
  Granted that my experiences are anecdotal, tie some percentage of this being the case to a situation where the BSA is bonded at the hip to many churches for facilities and recruitment and an environment that protects itself all the way up, with a social institution (on both sides) to back that up. >
  
  I was in scouts from the 90s to the early 00s. I feel like I was lucky since it was drilled into us to never be alone with another adult besides our parents. Always use the buddy system.  Report any issues or problems with a parent etc. 
  We even had to watch that sexual abuse video every year where the coach guy takes the kids home and video tapes them “wrestling” or whatever. 
  I went to the national jamboree in 01 and even there, we weren’t to be alone with any adults and always had to be with our “buddies”. >
  
  Yeah most groups I was involved with did Scout safety right- and justly so! From an on-the-ground angle the adult leaders were very interested in everyone's safety.
  The bigger issue was with Council, the bureaucrats and organizational components, with 60 year old men who never left the 1950s behind. There was absolutely a disconnect between Troop level and the organization level in terms of priorities at times. >
  
  So there's got to be some shadow fund bullshit dueling this "movement" given that it's been happening across the nation. Has there been any attempt to expose it? >
  
  Something smells of The Federalist Society. >
  
  I would say they likely are not the only ones. There are plenty of mega rich sick ducks that are happy to find anti LGBTQ terrorism. >
  
  That “Trust the Science” sign is rich… from the same group that spent the past two years ignoring science. >
  
  Ok, but biologically speaking, there are more than two genders. >
  
  If there’s any silver lining to all this idiotic controversy, it’s that more people are being made aware of the existence of intersex individuals. >
  
  To Catch a Predator is an American reality television series in the television news magazine program Dateline NBC featuring confrontations with host Chris Hansen, partly filmed with a hidden camera, of adult men arriving at a sting house to have sex with a minor and typically being arrested as a result. The minors are adults impersonating underage persons (generally ages 13–15) in online chats.[1]
  Saw a lot of “regular white dudes dressed as men” getting caught.   Not a lot of drag queens.
  Just saying. >
  
  Bingo. Drag queens are not doing anything sexual in these shows. Brought my boy to one and the drag queen was no more offensively dressed than Mrs. Doubtfire. >
  
  If someone was committing a crime i really doubt they would dress like a cross between a flamingo and a peacock in a public space with tons of adults watching them >
  
  Nonsense, when I commit crimes I deliberately dress as flamboyant as possible, easier to draw more attention that way >
  
  I was expecting a Batman villain.  This is better >
  
  I'm as confused as I was by the same thing happening in western Oregon. I was like "no one cared about drag story hour for all the other years before covid that we've had them." NYC?! I bet no one cared there, either, until some astroturf political "movement" shipped some "good ol' boys" from Arkansas to NY and yelled about something most New Yorkers have been seeing for decades. What a waste of gas. >
  
  I didn't even know they were a thing.
  I didn't care about them in the past and I don't care about them now.
  I'm more concerned about the real abuse churches do to childern. >
  
  Out of the loop as well. I was wondering if there have been more events held recently to counter the hate or have they always been this frequent? >
  
  Meanwhile, the people who have actually been grooming and abusing children have not been drag queens. Lots of them have been Republican politicians and clergymen. 
  And it doesn't even stop at children. Just this week six women were rescued from Andrew Tate and his brother's sex trafficking operation. But no, the right wing want to antagonize drag queens and the LGBT community now that immigrants and abortion didn't pan out for them this last election cycle. >
  
  Lot of ‘em are holding the signs. >
  
  Oh so NOW we’re trusting the science. Mmhm. >
  
  $20 says the guy holding the "trust the science" sign isn't vaccinated >
  
  that’s a sucker bet >
  
  Kids molested at Drag Queen Story Hour - 0
  Kids molested at Church - probably in the millions throughout its history. >
  
  /r/pastorarrested collects local news articles.  They are as bad as you would expect. >
  
  So many people are missing the point here.
  Story time hour ALWAYS had some form of bigger than life character running the show, it could've been a stereotypical drag queen or a guy wearing giant glasses and a propeller had or a girl that had a gravity defying ponytail wig with a raggedy anne dress.
  There have always been larger than life characters to get kids invested in hearing stories, having drag queens reading to them really isn't all that different in a public library setting.
  And if you really think that's its a disgrace that having a book red to your kids by Samantha Valentino but Christopher the Cool Reading Cat is just fine, why? >
  
  What's funny is that people that would be considered drag kings were a pretty common part of my childhood. I saw all types of women dress as Peter Pan or Gaston for dramatic laughs. How is this any different? It's not like the drag queens are making these shows sexualized - they're just dudes in make up and dresses. They're literaly updated clowns reading to kids. >
  
  Shit, community theater generally is pretty female heavy so it's not uncommon to have multiple women playing men's roles and thus dressed as men with full contouring and breasts bound. I've never seen protesters outside of a local Shakespeare show bitching about ladies dressed in breeches. >
  
  It's because society worships masculinity and considers willingly "giving up" your masculinity to be the ultimate sin and a personal attack on them. That's why trans women receive such insane hate.
  Edit to expand even further: Cis people see trans people free themselves from the box society placed them in. This upsets cis people because it shows them that the box itself is meaningless and they didn't need to adhere to it all this time. They're jealous of the freedom that discovering your trans identity brings.
  It's an ego thing. I had to fit myself in this little box, so now I expect you to do the same, otherwise I'll get really mad when I realize my entire life has been a lie/for nothing/hasn't gone how I wanted. >
  
  Toxic masculinity ruins fucking everything. I hope that one day that shit will get buried somewhere near phrenology and humorism. >
  
  A group of men, that dress ridiculously but also really funny or good, use massive amounts of make-up, wear massive shoes and play a different role to what they usually are, entertaining kids & freaking out adults.
  If you cannot differentiate, based on the description alone, whether this is about circus clowns or drag queens, yet you still hate drag queens & and don't protest clown shows, you're an idiot and the actual clown. >
  
  I say this all the time. Drag is just another form of clown style entertainment. Men dressing as women and saying funny/over the top stereotypical “female” shit? Sign me up! I’ve been to horror themed drag shows that were hilarious. I watched a drag queen Golem do a death drop! It was fuckin’ awesome. Also, I’m as straight as they come. Drag is cool if you just watch it for what it is. Entertainment. >
  
  So many rightwing clowns upset over something they or their offspring don't even have to participate in. I've never seen a group of people go more out of their way to be offended by something that is none of their business. Go build a house in the middle of the woods, take your family and never leave it. >
  
  Or come to Florida where the Governor is doing everything he can to make anything even close to LGBTQ+ illegal... >
  
  Someone got to make him watch The Birdcage. >
  
  There’s no point in arguing with someone who’s entire purpose is to misunderstand you and get others to