158. Opposing Views: Is Drag Appropriate for Kids? | John Casey & Bryan Slaton

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🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This episode was sponsored by: —Goldco. Visit http://mplikesgold.com/ to get up to $10,000 dollars in free silver when you open a qualifying account. —Nord VPN. Visit https://nordvpn.com/tmpp or use promo code “TMPP” to get a huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 months for free! It’s completely risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee! In this episode of the Opposing Views series, I spoke with John Casey and Bryan Slaton about the appropriateness of kids attending Drag Shows. We talked about the extreme political polarization surrounding Drag Shows, their history in the U.S., what age is appropriate for someone to attend a Drag Show, the responsibility of parents, and so much more. John Casey is the Lead Columnist and Editor-at-Large for The Advocate, the oldest and largest LGBTQ news site in the U.S. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Wagner College in New York City teaching in the Masters of Media Management Program. John's work has appeared in numerous media outlets, including the New York Post, New York Daily News, Pittsburgh Magazine, Adweek, PR Week, IndieWire, Smashing Magazine, and The Ladders. Bryan Slaton is a Texas State Representative. Before entering public office, he was a youth and family minister, and he holds a Master's in Divinity degree in biblical languages. As a State Representative, he works on the Corrections and Urban Affairs Committees. Representative Slaton describes himself as a Christian Conservative, proud Texan, and a defender of liberty. Thanks for tuning in. If you enjoyed this conversation, be sure to subscribe! —Links— Follow John Casey On: Twitter: https://twitter.com/johntcaseyjr The Advocate: https://www.advocate.com/authors/john-casey Follow Bryan Slaton: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BryanSlatonForTexas Twitter: https://twitter.com/BryanforHD2 His Website: https://bryanslaton.com/ Follow Me On: All Platforms: https://linktr.ee/mikhailapeterson Facebook: https://facebook.com/mikhailapeterson Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikhailaFuller Instagram: https://instagram.com/mikhailapeterson Telegram: https://t.me/mikhailapeterson #johncasey #bryanslaton #kidsdragshows #mikhailapeterson #dragshows #texas #theadvocate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	there are people who are afraid of men dressing up like women and acting crazy.
0:05.4	And you know, that's, look, not here to judge anybody. If a, like they said, if a parent doesn't
0:12.0	want their children around it, then they don't need to be there. They can make the decision.
0:16.2	It's very simple. At, at, at the same, at the same time, if a parent wants to go to the,
0:22.6	with a child to a dried breeding house, they should be able to do that and they should be able to have
0:27.2	they shouldn't have to be protested and they shouldn't have to be interrupted by proud boys.
0:32.1	The drag queen exists in from a sexual nature. That's what it's the drag queen is for. They only
0:39.4	take basically two qualities of a woman and they don't, they don't focus on intelligence,
0:44.7	they don't focus on work ethic, they don't focus on anything, nurturing, they don't focus on
0:50.2	just the sexual and the materialistic side. And so why would we want to teach kids that's
0:58.0	what a woman is. Why would we want to do that? And besides that, what, what would be the benefit
1:04.5	to having a female stripper sit down and read to the kids?
1:14.7	Welcome to my podcast. I'm Michaela Peterson. This is the Michaela Peterson podcast.
1:19.1	And this is an opposing views episode on drag story time and drag shows.
1:24.7	Posing views is a series where I speak with individuals on opposite sides of a contentious
1:29.6	issue and this issue is definitely contentious. It was very interesting. On one side, I had John Casey,
1:36.0	a widely published writer for the advocate, a LGBTQ, the largest LGBTQ magazine in the US.
1:43.6	On the other side of this debate, I had Brian Slayton, a former youth minister and current
1:49.6	state representative of Texas. In the last few months, you guys have probably seen there have
1:54.3	been a number of viral videos showing parents bringing children to drag shows. A lot of people
2:00.0	and parents, especially, have been upset by that. A lot of people have supported it.
2:04.8	Drag shows in bars, drag story time in libraries, drag story time at the Toronto Zoo.
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