The explosive rise in teacher sexual abuse — or at least, the explosive rise in people actually taking notice of it — in the US is notable particularly in who’s doing it. Not creepy old men with comb-overs and wandering hands, but early-middle-aged, at least moderately pretty women. Females as child sexual abusers have hitherto been relatively rare (or, at least, rarely talked about), so what’s going on?
These are women with young children, on the cusp of what many pretty young women dread: the long decline into middle-age. So they validate their “hotness” by having sex with their students. As their personal lives dull down into a grind of career and family, “their own unmet intimacy needs… and feelings of loneliness” are also cited as factors.
There also seems to be a “type” when it comes to the “drag for kids” phenomenon. Watching the grim parade of leaked videos of fat, ugly men in scanty costumes, twerking and wiggling their fake breasts at children, surrounding them are invariably a gaggle of whooping women. These (usually white), middle-class, suburban, “soccer mom” types seem to be the ones really getting off on the show. The kids are just the excuse.
“Pimps with strollers”, I call them.
And they tell themselves that exposing their kids to what used to be confined to the nightclubs of Kings Cross is all just “cute, wholesome fun”.
It’s the magic of dressing up.
I took my toddler along to the Erika and CoCo Flash Rainbow Storytime session on Monday and boy, was it fun.
This self-confessed “straight, white, cisgender woman” is adamant that there’s nothing sinister about a man dressed as a grossly sexualised caricature of a woman — every bit as degrading to women as the rubber-lipped, white-eyed, Stepinfetchit-stereotyped blackface of Minstrel shows is to black people — prancing about in front of impressionable children.
There was nothing remotely sexual or revealing. It was all child friendly and appropriate.
NZ Herald
“Child friendly.” “Appropriate.” These phrases are to the Drag Queen Story Time phenomenon what “mostly peaceful” was to the BLM riots.
Especially given that New Zealand is only just on the brink of the slippery slope. Looking overseas, where the phenomenon has a few years under its g-string, we can see that, having got the toe of their stilettos into the heads of middle-class mothers, the rails quickly become greased for full-blown degeneracy-for-tots.
The hyper-sexualisation of children’s shows in the name of ‘diversity and inclusion’ continues to grip the United Kingdom.
The latest incarnation to emerge is the ‘Caba Baba Rave’ – a ‘cabaret sensory rave for parents and their babies 0-2 years’ […]
It recently came to light that the show, which promised to provide a ‘little slice of afternoon delight’, was packed full of half-naked drag acts, wearing bondage gear, thongs and nipple tassels in front of children. The performers often name themselves after lewd sex acts. Nothing is left to the imagination.
Like our NZ mother, the justifications flow thick, fast and unconvincing.
They have blamed the cancellation of their shows on ‘trolling’ and say the only people who take issue with their performances are people who ‘have a problem with… non-binary performers.’ And as if it makes it any better, they say their shows for babies are aimed more at the parents who want to have a ‘night out during the day’.
Which is probably more true than they want to admit. As groomers know all too well, gaining the family’s trust is a first step.
Oh, did I say the “G-word”? Yes — because this is exactly what it is.
Just because a young child may not fully understand what is in front of them, does not mean it is okay for them to be exposed to it in the first place. That is a basic premise of child safeguarding. Children lacking the proper developmental capacity should not find themselves being treated as sexual objects or being exposed to inappropriate sexual themes.
For some time now people have suggested that child drag performances taking place around the UK are no different to pantomime dames at the theatre. It’s a laughable comparison. Traditional theatre is geared towards family entertainment and has age-appropriate content. It may be ridiculous and farcical, but unlike child drag acts, it is not sexual.
The drag performances being offered to children, on the other hand, ooze sex. They are often hyper-sexualised in language and dress. They blur the boundaries between adults and children. And they are often promoted to children as something they may wish to aspire towards.
Videos of “child friendly” drag events in the UK and US show drag queens flashing enormous fake breasts, teaching little children to twerk, a Christmas drag show featuring a reindeer costume with a huge, day-glo pink vulva and oiled-up leathermen dry-humping. Worse, time after time, little girls are encouraged to strut sexily, and little boys to dress in drag, while adults throw money at them.
That is the literal sexualisation of our children.
The Spectator
And it’s classic grooming behaviour: start off with innocent, fun stuff for the child, then start introducing apparently innocuous sexual innuendo.
This is grooming. It’s the gradual weaving of sexual ideas into an otherwise normal conversation until they become the normal conversation. And then, slowly, inexorably, things move beyond conversation.
The Guardian
“It’s not like he wore a sign saying, ‘I’m a sexual predator.’ He was that cool uncle.”
Adam had always enjoyed spending time with his uncle, and would often look forward to sleepovers when they could have extended time together.
RAINN
“The only way that perpetrators accomplish sexual assault is by slowly but surely introducing the person to nonoffensive behavior.”
Insider
And the (mostly) mothers enabling this stuff? Undoubtedly they genuinely think there’s nothing wrong in what they’re getting into. Very few people will knowingly put their children in harm’s way, it goes without saying.
But some people are so blind to their own gratification that they willingly turn a blind eye. For the “straight, white, cisgender women”, it’s the gratification of being seen to be “progressive”, of vicariously flagging their virtue and at the same time having ‘night out during the day’. As one de-transitioned teen boy put it, “[his] mother was enjoying the attention just as much as he was… I felt emotionally manipulated into doing it”.
The teenage de- transitioner’s mother would parade her “drag child” at gay nightclubs and force him to dance for intoxicated men. The crisis point came when she tried to set him up on a “play date” with a much older man. Drag Queen Story Hour events in the US have knowingly included convicted sex offenders.
Let’s hope NZ’s ditzy, “progressive” pimps with strollers wise up to what they’re really doing long before that.
