I've got to say I understand the argument against these shows. Those images of kids lying on drag queens are pretty fucking disturbing, then there's the monkey dildo guy and a bunch of others... It's a bit odd how much this is happening. Someone mentioned the outliers being the wholesome ones. That might be true. I don't know.
The only thing I've really argued with ITT is that there are (potentially, probably) wholesome drag story time shows... but I'm not honestly sure that justifies their existence.
The harm here is: kids are being exposed to inappropriate shit sometimes.
The benefit is: what exactly?
I don't see the value in drag shows in general. The comedy is shit. The music is shit. It's gay self-hatred / self-exploitation. It's all amateur transvestite insult comics making fun of themselves for being gay.
I don't like makeup on men or women. I'm not into wigs. It's all superficial, vain distraction.
But, I don't get to decide what is and isn't allowed for other people's kids.
My brother let his 8 year old son watch Venom: Let There Be Carnage. The main character - the hero - bites people's heads off for fun.
That's my nephew and I don't care. It strikes me as a weird parenting choice, but he's not my kid. I took my daughter to a clothing optional hippy festival. My brother doesn't understand (or approve of) that.
I don't presume to know everything.
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The fisting comment that someone latched on to before... I can't remember 100% but wasn't that not said in front of kids?
I make all sorts of inappropriate jokes around friends but that doesn't have anything to do with how I behave around kids. Saying "the sort of person who makes jokes about fisting" is (again) reading kind of homophobic to me.