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Drag Queens as Priests of Queer Theory

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 107 Queer Theory, which is to say Queer Marxism, is a religious cult, as discussed at length in The Queering of the American Child (https://amzn.to/40GX0i5). So what's the role of the drag queen in this cult? While much has been said on this issue to clarify for people that the drag queen in the presence of children is meant to be the purveyor of an initiation rite into Queer Marxism for the kids, a clear explanation of why they're chosen would be of use. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay provides the explanation as it is rooted in Judith Butler's Queer Theory: drag queens are the enlightened priest class who understand that gender is an oppressive performance that can be parodied, disrupted, and deconstructed. Join him to gain greater depth of understanding of this grotesque cult activity. New book! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2025 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Queer

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. This is James Lindsay. You're listening to New Discourse's Bullets,

0:14.3

where I'm going to give you a short bullet point type summary of a single topic from woke Marxism that we need to understand so we can defeat it and stop it.

0:22.7

And this might be a little bit of a dated topic now. I don't think it's dead, but this might be more of

0:28.9

a moratorium, a look back. But I want to give you the full clear explanation for why drag queens?

0:40.5

Why drag queens? Now I don't mean in the sense,

0:44.4

we all know the answer. There's the meme, you know, with the goose chasing the drag queen away or whatever, and it says, why don't you ever read your stories to old people in nursing homes? Why is

0:50.5

it always children? We know why it's always children. I'm not going to talk about that.

0:58.7

You can go listen to my Groomer Schools episode on Drag Queen Story Hour, where I read it in their own words, why it's children and what they're doing with them. The question is, why drag queens

1:03.1

at all? And, you know, I've given some answer to that in the past. There's some practical reasons

1:07.7

why there are some kind of very interesting you know it's like why a drag

1:14.2

queen and not a stripper that's a question right why well because obviously the stripper

1:19.0

given the behaviors is not the problem the stripper the the reason that they're not interested

1:24.6

is because the stripper is not actually doing something queer it It's just breaking a norm. Right. So why not do something queer in addition? A man

1:33.1

dressed as a woman induces generative themes. Is a generative theme himself. A man dressed as a woman

1:40.2

invites the children to ask questions like why is a man dressed as a woman so that the

1:45.1

educator can then reply, do men always have to dress like men or can they dress like women

1:50.9

if it makes them feel pretty and then lead them into places like don't you want to feel pretty

1:55.5

sometimes blah, blah, blah. And you can hear the whole nasty grooming idea. So we know why it's

2:00.6

children and we can see

2:01.9

the very practical reason why it's drag queens is because they are just across the line of

2:08.4

the queer line. But at the same time, they present this kind of weirdly gross to even say this,

2:16.2

but in the pantheon of queer, it's true, this weirdly safe

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