What A Drag!!

[weltschmerz]

Montreal daycare invites drag queen Barbada for storytime


When Barbada — who is more than six feet tall without her heels on — arrived at Over The Rainbow daycare in NDG this week, the children were fascinated by her appearance.



"She looked fancy," said Mirabel Swanson, who is three years old and had never seen a drag queen before.



For some children though, this wasn't a first.
"My mommy watched RuPaul lots of times and I've seen lots of drag queens before," said Claira Chiasson, who is four.



The Montreal drag queen brought her big pink hair, big earrings, colourful dresses and warm smile to the daycare for its very first drag queen storytime earlier this week.



Barbada, who has been doing storytime events for young children at the Grande Bibliothèque for about a year, read the children stories in French and English, including Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton, about a girl who is poor and gets teased about her coat.

After storytime, Barbada and the children discussed the messages in the stories: not judging people based on their clothing or their appearance, and the importance of showing each other respect.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-drag-queen-storytime-daycare-1.4927005

Personally, I think it's great! 

[empress of self-improvement]

That is so cool!

[MJ2.0]

I like it.

[Anne_in_VA]

[weltschmerz]

They did the same thing in the US, and Breitbart reported on it.
The commentators absolutely lost their minds with spittle-flecked rage and hate.

[haapai]

I predict that this will cause several small children to beg for pink hair.  I pity their parents. 

[weltschmerz]

Nov 30, 2018 17:56:29 GMT -5 haapai said:

I predict that this will cause several small children to beg for pink hair.  I pity their parents. 

They have dye that washes out with one shampoo.

[raeoflyte]

Nov 30, 2018 17:56:29 GMT -5 haapai said:

I predict that this will cause several small children to beg for pink hair.  I pity their parents. 

I have been meaning to do pink tips for my daughter for months.  I have to get it done this weekend.  

[Shooby]

Nov 30, 2018 17:48:25 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

They did the same thing in the US, and Breitbart reported on it.
The commentators absolutely lost their minds with spittle-flecked rage and hate.

They did?  Do you have a link for this "spittle flecked rage and hate"?

[weltschmerz]

Nov 30, 2018 19:59:16 GMT -5 Shooby said:

Nov 30, 2018 17:48:25 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

They did the same thing in the US, and Breitbart reported on it.
The commentators absolutely lost their minds with spittle-flecked rage and hate.

They did?  Do you have a link for this "spittle flecked rage and hate"?

Of course.

www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/08/07/drag-queens-teach-children-no-such-thing-boy-girl-things/

www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/02/25/backlash-drag-queens-primary-school/

Just read the comments.

[oped]

Wow. Those comments. I could only read a few.

Like the posting of some right wing woman someone pasted the other day on Facebook about how the next person to breast feed in public she as going to punch... and punch the baby too.

Did you know anti Semitic crimes are up 37% since trump? And 2017 was the deadliest year for trans people in a decade at least.

[weltschmerz]

Shooby, unlike you, I don't run and hide when asked for proof.
We're all still waiting with breathless anticipation for you to back up your claim that Khashoggi was a thug.
Any ETA on that? 

[weltschmerz]

Dec 1, 2018 0:16:20 GMT -5 oped said:

Wow. Those comments. I could only read a few.

Like the posting of some right wing woman someone pasted the other day on Facebook about how the next person to breast feed in public she as going to punch... and punch the baby too.

Did you know anti Semitic crimes are up 37% since trump? And 2017 was the deadliest year for trans people in a decade at least.

All hate crimes are up since Trump. Even here.  Trump validated hate.

[weltschmerz]

"Furthermore, sick, aggressive, proselytising sexual deviants like this should not be allowed out in public, never mind being free to pervert young minds.



And those who permit, enable and encourage this abomination should be charged with first degree criminal child abuse and, if existing penalties are insufficient to meet the sheer, absolute magnitude of this crime, then the law must be changed to accommodate their culpability before vigilantism raises its ugly head."

Yep. Brings to mind hate-filled angry villagers with pitchforks and torches.
Unfortunately, now it's guns.

[Shooby]

Dec 1, 2018 0:00:07 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Nov 30, 2018 19:59:16 GMT -5 Shooby said:

They did?  Do you have a link for this "spittle flecked rage and hate"?

Of course.

www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/08/07/drag-queens-teach-children-no-such-thing-boy-girl-things/

www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/02/25/backlash-drag-queens-primary-school/

Just read the comments.

The comments are not the article.  Anyone can say whatever they want in the comments. Breitbart didnt' write the comments.  More fake news.  I can go on Huffpo and post some crap.  K?

[oped]

She said the commentators spittled. You asked for proof. That is the proof... ?

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Dec 1, 2018 0:16:20 GMT -5 oped said:

Wow. Those comments. I could only read a few.

Like the posting of some right wing woman someone pasted the other day on Facebook about how the next person to breast feed in public she as going to punch... and punch the baby too.

Did you know anti Semitic crimes are up 37% since trump? And 2017 was the deadliest year for trans people in a decade at least.

If someone punched me while I was Bfing they better be prepared to get their ass kicked. I'd have been able to do it while still nursing too.😝

Back on topic I like the story time thing. I want drag queen story time at our library.

Abby had her Ken doll in a dress and I asked why.

"Cause he doesn't want to be naked"

I hope she never loses that view. That's exactly the right opinion about clothes and gender.

[Tennesseer]

Dec 1, 2018 8:58:23 GMT -5 Shooby said:

Dec 1, 2018 0:00:07 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Of course.

www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/08/07/drag-queens-teach-children-no-such-thing-boy-girl-things/

www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/02/25/backlash-drag-queens-primary-school/

Just read the comments.

The comments are not the article.  Anyone can say whatever they want in the comments. Breitbart didnt' write the comments.  More fake news.  I can go on Huffpo and post some crap.  K?

First it was "preface", now commentators.

com·men·ta·tor

noun

plural noun: commentators

a person who comments on events or on a text.

[haapai]

It has never ceased to amaze me how some people lose their shit when a boy puts on a dress. 

 

I've also been shocked by how fantastic a lot of guy's legs look in frocks, kilts, and tupenu.  It can really shake a sapphist to to her core. 

[Deleted]

We have a group of locals trying to shut it down at our libraries but everyone just laughs at them.  The group is still demanding we boycott Target because of inclusive policies and they sue the city every year or so about benefits being offered to same-sex couples.  The good thing is that they are 100% predictable in their biases.

[weltschmerz]

Dec 1, 2018 0:16:20 GMT -5 oped said:

Wow. Those comments. I could only read a few.

Like the posting of some right wing woman someone pasted the other day on Facebook about how the next person to breast feed in public she as going to punch... and punch the baby too.

Did you know anti Semitic crimes are up 37% since trump? And 2017 was the deadliest year for trans people in a decade at least.

A Hispanic family in Utah says the rise of racial tensions under the Trump presidency is partly to blame after a man brutally attacked a father-son duo, leaving the son hospitalized with serious facial injuries.


Salt Lake City Police said Alan Covington walked into the Lopez family’s mechanic shop and attacked the two men with a metal rod on Tuesday, Nov. 27, ABC 4 reported. Witnesses reportedly heard Covington saying he wanted to “kill a Mexican person.”

globalnews.ca/news/4718714/hispanic-family-attacked-blames-trump-utah/

[countrygirl2]

I'm surprised there hasn't been more of that.


Here they would kill a drag queen I would bet and close the library.  This community is getting crazy nut "Christians".  I am

seeing more and more women with those long blue denim skirts, hideous things in my opinion, the long hair or buns, long

sleeves and many of the girls looking like them.  Like I said we are going back a 100 years or something, never seen anything 

like it.  I think its dumb what they are doing but its their right, why don't they think others should be able to live their lives

the way they want?

And we had a nice amish man that built a lumberyard in our community, something we haven't had here for years.  Someone burned him out twice, the 2nd time he gave up.  We heard rumors they resented amish coming in and taking their jobs.  They still are, they show up on time, put in an honest days work, do quality work.  They aren't going to stop that.

[Pants]

Nov 30, 2018 17:56:29 GMT -5 haapai said:

I predict that this will cause several small children to beg for pink hair.  I pity their parents. 

I dyed my daughters hair pink it was adorable.

[Pants]

Nov 30, 2018 19:55:08 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

Nov 30, 2018 17:56:29 GMT -5 haapai said:

I predict that this will cause several small children to beg for pink hair.  I pity their parents. 

I have been meaning to do pink tips for my daughter for months.  I have to get it done this weekend.  

B wants purple tips "like Mal in Descendents 2." I said fine, but we're not doing the rest peroxide blonde, mal or no mal.

[oped]

My daughter is 17. She hasn’t had a natural hair color in 6 years at least.

[milee]

I make the conscious choice to avoid the Politics Board because of the sniping on both sides of the political spectrum.  If you want to engage in the sniping - go there where you can happily spend hours pulling up anecdotes that support whatever you believe and how horrific the other side is, getting nastier and nastier amid the self-righteousness.  Nobody will ever solve or rationally discuss anything because it's apparent nobody wants to solve or rationally discuss anything, just vent and snipe and denigrate.

It is completely and totally possible to discuss drag queens, drag queens reading to kids, how kids interact with drags queens, colored hair and a variety of other things without bringing politics into it.

Bringing political attacks over here is like pontificating on politics at the Thanksgiving table where you know there are people of varying beliefs - wrong venue.  

[thyme4change]

This story reminds me of when my son was like 2 or 3, and my daughter was 4 or 5. We were driving and somehow got caught in the traffic leaving the Pride Parade. We passed a float that had several drag queens, who were over the top dressed. They were so sparkly. They waved to my kids and my kids were so excited. With good reason. They looked like Christmas Ornaments.