>

How about Trump? He wears more make-up, hair products and fake tanner than most women.
I'm willing to bet there's no law in Oklahoma prohibiting taking a minor to Hooters. >


"Adult cabaret performance" means a performance in a
location, other than an adult cabaret, that features topless
dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dancers, strippers, drag queens or
similar entertainers, who provide entertainment that appeals to the
prurient interest, regardless of whether or not the performance is
for consideration;

so maybe its hooters is outlawed now?  ¯\ (ツ)/¯ >

“People without many clothes on… and then these heavily clothed people who we don’t dig their taste in clothes…”  you gotta have worms in your brain to be a conservative.  That’s some stone cold stupid to actually put in writing. >

Also a complete misunderstanding of why gay dudes dress in drag. Gay men aren't dressing up as women to entice other gay men to fuck them. They do it because they think its fun. They aren't attracted to women! It's 100% not the same thing as going to see strippers. It's like making cowboy hats illegal for anyone who doesn't actually herd cattle. >

They do it the same reason Bing Crosby and Danny K do it in the goddam movie we all watch every Christmas.  It’s fucking crazy town with this shit. >

Don't forget that Buggs Bunny did it a bunch of times!!! >

So many memories. >


defining "drag queen" as a "male or female performer who adopts a flamboyant or parodic feminine persona with glamorous or exaggerated costumes and makeup."

So, like... Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Madonna, Cher, that sort of thing? >

The UK has a history of over 120 years of pantomimes made for children with a male performer playing a flamboyant or exaggerated female character. >

That goes all the way back to a guy playing the role of nurse in Romeo and Juliet, making jokes about sex. >

Keep going further back. Men played female roles in Ancient Greek theatre too — lots of sex jokes in those plays too >

Wasn't that because women weren't permitted? Or am I thinking of a different civilization >

The War on Drags. >

So the GOP position is that school children can psychologically handle active shooter drills, and even active shooters… but they can’t handle a story time where the reader is wearing a feather boa and sparkly clothes?
Got it. >

And tell me none of these guys watched Milton Berle perform as a woman on TV as a kid? Or Harvey Korman and Tim Conway doing so on Carol Burnett? Benny Hill? John Travolta in Hairspray? Robin Williams as Ms. Doubtfire? Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie? Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies? Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot? 
It's another case of when they find something entertaining, they are perfectly well adjusted and it's just good fun, But if somebody else finds very similar behavior entertaining, it's disgusting and should be illegal. It's infuriating, and also just plain wrongheadedness. >

Their only context for trans people is as a tab they click on PornHub. Their image of a drag show is that it's like the sad truckstop stop joints they visit. Given that, and some quarter-truths spun by billionaire backed messaging like Daily Wire, it's easy to come to a complete misunderstanding of what's actually happening at a drag story hour - i.e. that it's anything other than just a bombastic fully-dressed performer experienced in character work volunteering their time to preform books at the local library. >

What about the Bugs Bunny eps where he goes in drag? Will they fine WB? >

Isn't it interesting how Bugs Bunny generally only wore women's clothing. >

When Donald Duck gets out of the shower, he puts a towel around his waist. I mean. What’s that about.? >

To cover his low hanging tits that are usually bound in his shirt. >

Republicans. Always coming up with a cure in search of a problem. >

If I watch Too Wong Foo with my teenagers present, do I get fined or do the actors in the movie? >

Only if you don't counter-program them with Roadhouse. >

The problem there is that Patrick Swayze might make them a feel a little funny too. >

Especially in the movie where he plays a drag queen
Edit: I forgot that To Wong Foo was the title of that movie >

Haha. You got the spirit though! >

Frankly, I don't really care about drag, but this is obviously the entry point to start policing how people dress. Whether that means women wearing pants instead of a skirt, or making it illegal to be transgender in public if you don't pass.
Then of course, police demanding to see the gender on your driver's license if some Karen thinks you might be trans, which usually means harassing cis women for not being feminine enough. >

Oh man, there are a LOT of cis women that would get harassed for looking masculine in Oklahoma. >

Steel Panther has entered the chat >

Banning books, suppressing free speech, and restricting freedom of expression. The party of “freedom” has gone full fascist. >

Then they turn around and cry about "cancel culture" in defense of racists who get banned from social media.
Everything the party says that they stand for, they actually do the exact opposite. >

Meanwhile crickets about doing anything about a mentally ill person buying a gun to shoot up a hospital. >

How dare you! Oklahoma GOP is taking on the boogeyman! Be thankful. >

Bull shit! John Wick would never work for the GOP. >


Mrs. Doubtfire is going up the fucking river! >

That won't last in court. First amendment ambush. >

It’s SCOTUS. You can rape babies if you’re a Republican. >

That’s the price they have to pay though. Pass and uphold unconstitutional laws and your rulings become law in unpredictable and undesirable ways. It’s a lesson they’ve had the luxury of ignoring for 50 years and they should be taught it sooner than later. >

what about priests and GOP members? >

Or the entire cast of Brave Heart??? Seriously, is it possible the common sense of the GOP base has eroded to the point this kind of nonsense will garner votes for the GOP as being done in defense of the public? >

Yes it is possible and yes it has.  The GOP sold them all these lies and now they have to follow through with the performative legislation.  How can they say they lied to the people who they scared into voting for them? >

I guess no Monty Python reunions in Oklahoma then. >

What constitutes “drag”?  Is it defined in this bill?  Hair tie in a pony tail - jail.  Pink shoes - jail.  Be a guy and call someone girlfriend - straight to jail.
I was raised primarily in Oklahoma and I haven’t been back in almost 20 years.  I’ll likely never return >

It's not explicitly defined in the bill. For instance, the definition of "Drag Queen" below is in the bill

"Drag queen" means a male or female performer who adopts a

flamboyant or parodic feminine persona with glamorous or exaggerated
costumes and makeup;
HB2186
And yeah, this law would probably get laughed out of court given it's clearly not content neutral and is using fairly vague definitions. That definition above would make showing Mrs Doubtfire or Monty Python in public illegal for instance. >

Not just in public. "Or at a location where it can be witnessed by minors" >

Can anyone explain to me how this would not violate the drag performers first amendment rights? >

Sure.  The supreme court decides whether something violates the first amendment or not.  This court will of course have no problem with this law.  So it does not violate the first amendment. >


West's bill specifically named drag queen story hours as events that would be considered unlawful, as well as other forms of "adult cabaret" performances.
The bill compared drag performers to strippers and topless dancers, defining "drag queen" as a "male or female performer who adopts a flamboyant or parodic feminine persona with glamorous or exaggerated costumes and makeup."

jesus fucking christ, these fucks are nuts
edit: and from the bill:

C. 1. It shall be unlawful for a person to organize or
authorize the viewing of a drag queen story hour on public property
or in a location where the drag queen story hour could be viewed by
a person who is a minor >

"glamorous or exaggerated costumes and make-up"
will this also extend to the toddlers&tiaras type "beauty" pageants? >

People should protest the child beauty pageants.  Use the same groomer and pedophile accusations that are aimed at the drag show performances. >

Absolutely. >

Never had an interest in doing Drag, but would be open to doing a Drag parade in OK. >

I know a Republican congressman you could recruit. >

Why does the GOP think drag shows are always sexual? >

The other comments saying cause they give them boners are wrong in my opinion (though that may be a joke). 
“Purity” has always been valued and sex has always been demonized because of our large Christian conservative population and history. By associating drag queens with sex, they are able to also to demonize and sexualize drag. (Also the fact that many drag shows are sexual in nature, but those aren’t the events kids are also at. But that is too nuanced for them.)
By sexualizing and demonizing drag and associating it with kids, they’re able criminalize it. Extend this to several things predominantly popular with the LGBT community, soon it is effectively criminalized to be gay in public. 
People seem to forget that Republicans law markers aren’t dumb because of the composition of their voting base. They’re well educated and deliberate. This isn’t just a one off law that they came up with cause they’re attracted to drag queens. It’s a calculated effort to make being gay illegal >

Ultimately its all about trying to force fundamentalist Christian values and morals on society. >

Yes absolutely >

Are Gaetz and trump still allowed to rape children? >

So what happens if someone reports me and my grandkid sitting on the couch watching Ru Paul's Drag Race or watching Deafies in Drag on youtube? >

What about LipSync Battle?? Channing Tatum? >

America, Land of the Free, as fantasized by the party of "Small Government".