Which one is the drag queen?
They are trying to normalize assault and I’m terrified they’ll get their way.
Did the article mention assault?
more states need to have battery as separate from assault. Fortunately, most do.
Considering this was verbal assault, it should have.
You do know that ‘assault’ isn’t just a legal term, right?
I feel that “normalizing assault” might paint an inaccurate picture of what the article contains.
I, a trans woman living in the American South, am already living under the sword of damoclese when it comes to the threat of unprovoked physical assault. I personally prefer not to add onto this stress with misconceptions.
Verbal assault is still assault. If you want to differentiate between verbal and physical assault, I can’t argue with that. But this was clearly a verbal assault. I don’t know what else you could call making deeply offensive and hurtful statements in front of marginalized groups with the clear purpose of being hurtful.
“shocking attack” literally in the title lol
The article itself is worth reading, but it includes a link to a Sacramento bee article about this woman and her trans kid. It seems like after the kid came out as trans, the mom really went off the deep end :
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article285961211.html
This woman is so wrapped up in her anti-trans crusade that it’s not just ruining her relationship with her child, but it’s consuming her to the point that it’s all she talks about. The article mentions that her friends and co-workers have had to ask her to stop sending articles about it. And now she’s been kicked out of the hotel she was staying at because she saw some guys in dresses and started throwing a fit. The hotel even offered to refund her stay, but she persisted and got escorted out by the cops instead.
She seems stuck in a misery of her own making. At least her kid seems to have a level head about all of it. I will never understand how some parents would let stuff like that get in the way of their relationship with their kids.
Drag queens are not even trans a lot of the time. Some aren’t even queer.
It’s fucking performance art.
Well if there is one thing conservatives have never understood (and feel angry and small and left out because of it), it’s art. Especially performance art.
She’s so enraged she’s literally shaking while filming it. Yikes. Here’s more of the video: https://youtu.be/CnECTQ6acpc
I’m worried about the boys of my community who think that they could become women because they’re effeminate, care, and they like wearing makeup, and they like wearing drag.
Ah, so attacking someone and making a scene is going to fix this how…?
Also, has she tried talking to those boys?
I mean, if they’re so easily swayed that just seeing drag queens will turn them into women[?] then surely they can be easily swayed back. Maybe show them well-oiled, handsome muscle men without their shirts on to inspire them to be manly?
When I find myself feeling particularly queer, I just watch Turkish oil wrestling to man myself back up again.
Is that what Capt Oveur was asking about?
Also, if a boy wanted to wear makeup and a dress while still being a boy, you know this lady would still have a problem with it.
Isn’t that exactly what these drag performers are doing?
I don’t think so, you are supposed to use she/her with drags no?
Maybe when they’re in costume? Wikipedia uses he/him for RuPaul.
Yeah, while in drag is what I was thinking.
Beth Bourne, an employee at the University ofCalifornia Davis and active chair of the far-right extremist group Moms for Liberty in Yolo County, Calif., launched into an unsolicited tirade against a group ofdrag queens who were officially invited to partake in a video shoot promoting an upcoming pageant.
Fire this piece of shit. She gives the school a bad name.
I wouldn’t feel terrible if this asshole got zapped by lightning. And hit by an asteroid. And launched into the sun.
