In light of the controversial Drag Queen story hour scheduled for this weekend at the Atheneum Library in St. Johnsbury, a St. Johnsbury resident asked in the letters column of the daily Caledonian-Record:
“Could someone please explain to me the difference between drag and blackface? I’ve been contemplating this question and doing research to help me examine all of its facets, and can’t see a difference. Is the Athenaeum going to host a blackface story hour next?”
The letter resulted in an email to VDC from DQSH supporter Jacq Posley. Referring to the Cal-Rec letter writer as one of the “Pitch Fork Mafia members,” Posley said “She is certainly entitled to her opinion….. This is absolutely unacceptable behavior AND not germane to the topic. She literally just wanted to add racism to her homophobia.”
It’s not the first time the black face – drag queen comparison has been raised in the media. In 2015, Mary Cheney – the gay, married daughter of former VP Dick Cheney – asked on Twitter:
“Why is it socially acceptable – as a form of entertainment – for men to put on dresses, make up and high heels and act out every offensive stereotype of women (bitchy, catty, dumb, slutty, etc.) – but it is not socially acceptable – as a form of entertainment – for a white person to put on blackface and act out offensive stereotypes of African Americans?”
“Shouldn’t both be ok or neither? Why does society treat these activities so differently?
“And just so we’re clear. I’m talking only about activities intended for entertainment. I am not talking about transgendered individuals who transition from one gender to another.”
Neither are okay because they both represent one class of people denigrating a class of people, a West Texas A&M college president said in his explaining why he cancelled a 2024 DQSH:
“I would not support ‘blackface’ performances on our campus, even if told the performance is a form of free speech or intended as humor. It is wrong,” Walter Wendler wrote. “I do not support any show, performance or artistic expression which denigrates others—in this case, women—for any reason.”
VDC invited Posley to further answer the question asked in the Caledonian-Record letter. Her response appears in today’s VDC. – Editor
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Good point…why is drag not considered by leftist weenies to be just another case of “cultural appropriation”, and hence not permitted in polite society? I’m sure the trans-activist community already has a snappy answer.
…Except that Drag Queen story hour is directed explicitly at children. Therein lies your major difference between the two.
DQSH is an effort to normalize titillating adult entertainment for children. It is intentionally disguised as family friendly entertainment. It is not about reading, but is an attempt to cover the goals of the movement.
Those goals are defined by Harris Kornstein and his co-writer in their manifesto: “Drag Pedagogy: the Playful Practice of Queer Imagination in Early Childhood”. The movement, to quote: “is an intellectual and political project that requires drag queens and activists to work toward undermining traditional notions of sexuality, replacing the biological family with the ideological family, and arousing transgressive sexual desires in young children.”
It’s a perversion of Proverbs 22:6.
Because women have never had, nor do they possess now – the societal clout or collective power to affect the often-demeaning traditional roles as certain stratums of culture & society positioned them in.
And the last four years of women supporting the left in their desecration of Title 9, supporting these drag queens, turning a blind eye to violence against women by illegal aliens, etc. — has only solidified their obvious contentedness with being nothing more than being played as pawns and pushovers.
WAKE up WOMEN.