An assault weapons ban like Biden wants will not solve the problem as there are already millions of AR15’s and other weapons out there. Only arming qualified teachers or hiring security guards will help. Also we need to address the mental health issue.

Not sure what your point here is. Are you actually suggesting this is an acceptable thing to expose children to?

@Captain_Feelgood you say children....children don't normally go to college,

@HankSherman Normally? Maybe not normally, but some of us did. And we (sane people that is) all know kids are too impressionable to be exposed to this crap.

@Captain_Feelgood begining to sound like you were personally involved in some way. You keep skirting the issue that you are harping on....were there children at this event???? And was a child accosted by the bad man. And should kids learn there are gay people in the world??? Or, is it just that you are homophobic????

@HankSherman "Were there children at this event????" Did you not look at the link? Here's another one in case that first one didn't work for you. [nypost.com] For the record, having a phobia entails being afraid of something. I assure you, I'm not afraid of gay people. Why would I be? You obviously don't care about the children in today's society and their mental wellbeing. Welcome to the 'ignore' list.

@Captain_Feelgood I tend to think you put alot in that list.

Do you think your orange dear leader will smile for his mug shot?

@Trajan61 Aren’t you sick of these annoying assholes like Buffoonfuck above who are so obsessed with Trump that every time anything is mentioned that they do not like they use Trump as their pathetic weapon to assault your common sense .

@richiegtt Yes I’m sick of those people. Hell they automatically assume you are a rabid Trump supporter if you disagree with them. I probably won’t even vote for Trump in the Republican primary but if he wins I will definitely support him against any democrat.

Questionable for a high school assignment, even in the written description. What the father told was far worse, but not accurate. Youth absolutely should learn about sexual acts and pregnancy/disease prevention in "high school" in "health class."
I certainly did learn about STD's in health class in high school.
But that was before the christo-fascist moral majority forced their backward thinking onto society.
Abstinence only sexual education is a joke and an abysmal failure.

Can we please be done with the word "woke"? It's so overused that it has lost whatever meaning it once had.

Also: society has always had its degenerate elements. The KKK, for instance. And, yes, men who like to fuck other men in the ass. The difference? The former is a terrorist organization, and the latter generally happens between consenting adults, and, if kept private, is nobody's business. In any case, it has always been there. Alexander the Great was a flaming homosexual!

I think the very public displays of the LGBTQ community (gay pride parades, etc.) are a natural (over)reaction to the many many years of oppression and abuse they have suffered. I hope for their sakes they learn to tap the brakes....before there is a backlash to the backlash which followed the other backlash. Everybody needs to chill out.

"woke" is a pejorative term people without an education use to make fun of people who DO have an education.

@Flyingsaucesir I have no problem with LGTBQ but it’s not normal so keep it under cover. And kids shouldn’t be exposed to it.

@Trajan61 Kids shouldn't be exposed to narrow-minded christofascists either. Yet here we are.

@Flyingsaucesir The reich-wing has weaponized the word. They use it as an pejorative because what it represents fucking terrifies them.
The idea of everyone else having the same rights as they do makes them shit themselves. All they want is to control everyone. Especially those they deem less than they are.
They're pathetic.

@KKGator Agreed! The Republican propaganda machine is very adept at twisting others' words to suit their own crooked agenda, and, failing that, simply making shit up. Remember "death panels," the phantasm fraudulently ascribed to the Affordable Care Act?

@Trajan61 What's "not normal" is you.

@Trajan61 I don't disagree. However, if the parents want to take their kids to hear a drag queen read from a storybook at the public library, that's their lookout. Niether the government not the Proud Boys should interfere.

Parenthetically, I don't think there is any harm in young kids learning that the clothing options and pronouns we typically associate with one gender or the other are essentially arbitrary. Look at the traditions of certain pastoral tribes of Sudan and you will see what I mean. The men get prettily dolled up and stand in a line, shoulder to shoulder, while the much more plainly dressed women parade before them...exactly the opposite of what we see in our meat market nightclubs.

@KKGator Both the leftwing sex deviants like the one mentioned above in the OP who believe nothing's wrong with pedophilia, and the rightwing theocratic fascists are annoying, so why not criticize both? I'll readily do so...

As someone who at one point in his life worked a side gig taking his clothes off to entertain women, I never would have thought to give a lap dance to any female under age eighteen, or for that matter engage in any sort of act with a minor that could have been considered sexual in nature. Lap dancing is considered adult entertainment, so let's leave that sort of thing for the adults. Also, it said the video was age restricted, and why do you suppose that is? Even YouTube, whose parent company Google tends to favor progressive left causes, found that video to be at least somewhat controversial, and that unto itself says alot.

Some guy wants to perform in a drag show that doesn't involve doing sexual acts with minors, all good, and I'm all in favor of them expressing themselves like that. Adults should be free to live their lives as they see fit and express themselves freely, but I draw the line on involving children in anything like that. I'd also defy any people like that to try to convince me otherwise. I disdain the holy babble due to the many references of adults sexually exploiting and abusing children, so why would I react any differently to frustrated wannabe-stripper adults who give lap dances to kids.

@richiegtt Sounds like someone got irked by you using the word "woke", lol. Can't remember now what post that was on where you had mentioned in the past about being an Independent, but the more I think about it the more I agree with your sentiment on that matter, as after awhile both political extremes with all of their whining gets to be too much. I agree with your comment above too.

@Trajan61 Of course it’s not normal .And I am not going to explain why I think so again like I have done here so many times before .The forced indoctrination to normalize sexual dysfunctions on a gullible population is no different than brainwashing individuals to think it is normal to believe in a celestial dictatorship.

@mischl iAre you actually that uninformed to be under the impression that only uneducated individuals use the term woke to get their point across? May I mention a few intellectuals such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris to name a few who occasionally use the term to illustrate the topic of conversation.On the other hand you may not be aware of these individuals.If you were you would not have made such an invalid statement.

@KKGator Being exposed to right wing christofacists would be the lessor of the 2 evils.

@Trajan61 Not even close. There are FAR more predators within the clergy.
It's also not just males, plenty of nuns have been/are abusive.
What's worse, the VAST majority of their crimes have been covered up.
Where's your righteous indignation about that?

I'd much rather have drag queens around than bible-thumpers.

@richiegtt I'm referring to the contemporary political use of the word. Mostly, I've seen it used by right-wing people to make fun of lefties. I've also heard it used by black folks to refer to people who are "awake and aware" of racial bias and discrimination. It's a mixed use word that I avoid.

@SpikeTalon only woke individuals are irked by the word woke

@Flyingsaucesir Not to mention the clergy these assholes support wear the most flamboyant shit ever.

@KKGator Kinda hilarious he tacitly agreed they are fascists. Kinda sad he's so fucking stupid he thinks fascists are a better option.

@ChestRockfield The scary thing is that there really are idiots in our midst who think fascism would be a better option. ‍

@Flyingsaucesir The venn diagram of those idiots and the assholes who wear "I'd rather be a Russian than a Democrat" is likely a circle. What fucking traitors.

@ChestRockfield No shit. I barely recognize my country these days.

@SpikeTalon no offense but hearing a guy use prostitutional behavior,was kind of unnerving,as much as it is with women who engage in that work..

But it's legal and it's adults,not mature adults, but whatever...

That's a civil moral matter that isn't such a peril as to be condemned as criminal ,well not in this economy.. which is criminal itself..

Divide and conquer, using all kinds of psychology for them to profit off of...

RFK Jr 2024

@laidback1 I never engaged in prostitution (either paying for sex or taking money directly for sex in return), and
what I did do would have been considered something along the line of an erotic party caterer (who wore next to nothing, but still wore something).

No denying the divide and conquer part, and more of that going on nowadays than ever before.

@SpikeTalon i just believe immaterial things like that stuff is priceless... I think many think the same but some don't... More people do with actual sex..

It's like i wouldn't want money to entertain women like that.lol .. it's like a thing in life that's just fun and playful mutually beneficial.. i don't know how else to explain it .. it's like everything has to be a commodity? I don't think we were always like that... i don't think we had commodities,i think we hunted and gathered 4 hours a day a few days a week and in the north took the winter off cause could dry & freeze meat...

And we just helped each other , barely traded I bet only when had to

I don't know what happened or what went wrong though ..

@laidback1 I see what you're saying, and do not disagree per se. Personally, I didn't get involved in that stuff strictly for the money, and considered it something for fun on the side. Had donated most of my tips to local organizations that benefitted women, namely a local health clinic and a women's self-defense organization (the latter I had directly participated in in my teens, helped my sensei with the monthly classes geared towards women's self-defense). Had the opportunity to meet some really interesting women that way.

@Flyingsaucesir If we’re not careful more children will see LGBTQ behavior as perfectly acceptable and more will become that way. According to some statistics that is already occurring.

@Flyingsaucesir I think there is something perverted about parents who would take young children under 12 to see a drag Queen show.

@Trajan61 I would hardy call reading from a storybook a "show." However, you are entitled to your opinion. In any case, it's none of your business. I recommend that you get over it. It's not worth blowing a gasket.