Now that you say it... yeah. Both of the above. Remember Satanic Panic and the crazy daycare stories? It's like that warped fantasy gave birth to "Today's MAP-pedovore eunuch cross-dressing clown in heels..." I distinctly recall there being clowns involved in that whole SP thing.
WTF is up with clowns anyway? Kids don't like them. I had a full-blown clown phobia when I was a kid, that extended to masks, and any kind of full-grown person (or machine) in a costume (Mall Santa, Mall Easter Bunny, dancing hot dogs, Chuck E. Cheese...). October every year, my mom had to start making a *wide* detour around the display of rubber masks (which of course they put right at the front of the store), because I wouldn't go anywhere near it. That is not at all uncommon among children, and frankly they still creep me out. I think as a kid you can kind of "see" the inside person, and when the inside doesn't match the outside, (either because the person inside the costume isn't the character they're portraying, or because there's no person inside at all) that's scary.
And yet we have all these people super gung-ho about DQSH. It's like they either hate kids, or they've never met any. There's no way there aren't preschoolers screaming and having to be hauled out of every one of those events. Before you ever even get to the "drag" part and whether that's appropriate... these are essentially costumed clowns, and kids are scared of clowns.
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Date: 2023-06-12 12:42 pm (UTC)WTF is up with clowns anyway? Kids don't like them. I had a full-blown clown phobia when I was a kid, that extended to masks, and any kind of full-grown person (or machine) in a costume (Mall Santa, Mall Easter Bunny, dancing hot dogs, Chuck E. Cheese...). October every year, my mom had to start making a *wide* detour around the display of rubber masks (which of course they put right at the front of the store), because I wouldn't go anywhere near it. That is not at all uncommon among children, and frankly they still creep me out. I think as a kid you can kind of "see" the inside person, and when the inside doesn't match the outside, (either because the person inside the costume isn't the character they're portraying, or because there's no person inside at all) that's scary.
And yet we have all these people super gung-ho about DQSH. It's like they either hate kids, or they've never met any. There's no way there aren't preschoolers screaming and having to be hauled out of every one of those events. Before you ever even get to the "drag" part and whether that's appropriate... these are essentially costumed clowns, and kids are scared of clowns.