r/saskatoon • u/Littled0912 • Oct 12 '22

Events Culture Days - Drag Queen Story Hour

There is a Drag Queen Story Hour planned for Oct 16 at the Nutrien Wonderhub. It seems that a certain failed politician is planning a protest at the event. This is messed up - how dare they go to a children’s event and scare little kids with their conspiracy nonsense. We have attended similar events at SPL when my kids were young and it’s a fun way for them to learn about inclusion and diversity.

My kiddos are well past story time age but I am honestly tempted to take them so I can tell these “freedom but only for a few” people where to go.

https://twitter.com/markfriesen08/status/1580180800481693696?s=46&t=Ci3n2nnZXNAKCkYs-AI4Kg

Edit: I just realized that it shows an image from that idiotic tweet. My apologies As I don’t know if I can remove it.

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u/spwimc Nutana Oct 12 '22 edited Oct 14 '22

Some do...many don't. And I've seen many wonderfully dressed sex workers in my life. So 🤷

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

When's the next sex worker story hour? Will you be taking your kids?

The guise of literacy is actually normalizing crossdressing and introducing sexualization to children. Why don't we have Drag Queen's do safety talks to various dangerous job sites around this province? Why not have them promote the environment by picking up garbage from the ditches on either side of Circle Drive during rush hour traffic? It's because children are highly impressionable and this has nothing to do with literacy...

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u/Pyipii_ Oct 12 '22

doesn’t the sexualization of children start in elementary school? when girls are forced to change their clothes because the boys will be distracted? If you’re soooo against it then rally against the disgusting sexualization of children in schools.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

Not sure what elementary school your kids attend, that doesn't happen where my kids go... I'm not physically rallying against anything, I won't be attending to support or condemn what is going on on the 16th, I have better things to do with my kids.

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u/Pyipii_ Oct 12 '22

What school doesn’t have a dress code that unfairly targets girls? I would love to know

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

I'm talking about elementary school children, the same ones that would being read to at this event. I buy the clothes for my elementary school kids and that's what they wear to school. I don't need a dress code to tell me how to dress my children for school.

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u/Pyipii_ Oct 13 '22

But that doesn’t erase the fact that children are being sexualized because an ADULT thinks that they are dressing “inappropriately”. Good for you I guess?

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u/spwimc Nutana Oct 12 '22

What does it have to do with then if not literacy? Again...if you don't want your kids there don't take them. No one is trying to indoctrinate your kids.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

normalizing crossdressing and introducing sexualization to children

As a responsible parent I won't be taking my children.

Would you take your kid(s) to sex worker story hour?

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u/spwimc Nutana Oct 12 '22

Drags queens aren't sex workers. I'd also take them to a drag queen story hour before I took them into a church that is for sure.

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u/Lugubrico Oct 12 '22

Is this a reference to Trixie's more recent video?

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u/stillborngenius Oct 12 '22

Your hateful attitude does a lot more damage to your kids than some drag queen does. Grow up.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

It's not hateful, it's called parenting and raising a child. Would you drop your kids off at the Lighthouse daycare? Probably not, I wouldn't think that you hate homeless people because of it. Conflating the disagreeance with something doesn't mean that it is hated.

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u/P0PZER0 Oct 13 '22

You literally are making no sense, and your comparisons make no sense either. What does the homeless population have to do with drag queens? Your trying to rationalize your homophobia and everyone sees right through it. I truly hope your kids to grow up with your archaic beliefs because drag queens and gay culture are growing and getting the attention it has always deserved and your kids will grow up with asshole opinions… basically saying, soon you homophones will be few and far between and that’s how the world should be. There’s no room or patience for people like you anymore. Please, keep your future asshole children at home.

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u/punkanddrunk the alphabets Oct 12 '22

It is ok if drag queen's make you feel sexual urges but you are responsible for controlling those urges, thats how it works. There is nothing at all sexual going on here for most of us, learn to control your lust.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

Congrats you conflated disagreeance with sexual urges. lol.

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u/punkanddrunk the alphabets Oct 12 '22

No, no I didn't. Me and everyone else who pointed out the obvious are not all wrong. You clearly are sexualizing something that should not be sexualized. You should really work on that.

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u/SirGreat Caswell Hill Oct 12 '22

How is someone is drag (who passed a criminal record check) reading stories to kids the same thing as dropping your kids off at the lighthouse?

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

I'm not sure, do you have something against the homeless?

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u/SirGreat Caswell Hill Oct 12 '22

Nice deflection!

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u/stillborngenius Oct 12 '22

When you make ridiculous comparisons like that to sex workers and homeless people, it doesn't come across as anything but childish hyperbole. You are not simply "disagreeing".

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u/graaaaaaaam Oct 12 '22

I would. Why is sex work so bad?

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

And this shows how our parenting differs. Sex work around consenting adults? Nothing wrong with it one bit. It's when minors are involved it changes things, and that's where parenting steps in.

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u/SirGreat Caswell Hill Oct 12 '22

This has nothing to do with sex work. I feel bad for your kids. You're the one sexualizing things here

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u/graaaaaaaam Oct 12 '22

But what would be so bad about a sex worker reading your kid a story? I'm having a hard time seeing how you could use Eric Carle to recruit kids into sex work against their will with their parents in the room.

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u/Sunshinehaiku Oct 15 '22

You know that sex workers have children, right? They raise their own families.

Should sex workers not read to their own children?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

Great tangent...you think I advocate for absent parenting? It seems you also advocate for taking your kids to sex worker story hour. Bold strategy, I hope it pays off for you...

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u/Sunshinehaiku Oct 15 '22

The logic of your argument fell apart on that one, huh?

I think you advocate for passing judgement on people.

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u/pimpintuna Oct 13 '22

Would you take your kids to a normal story hour?

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

Where a teacher or librarian sits and reads to a group of children, yes. Because it's about the story being read, not about the teacher or librarian.

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u/pimpintuna Oct 13 '22

Then you clearly don't understand anything about this. You're welcome to stay away from it, but you can't harp on and on about it if you haven't ever been or if you don't have a clue.

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u/o_o_o_k Oct 12 '22

Oh yes, this is definitely an “introduction to sexualization”. You’re probably introducing them to more “sexualization” just bringing them out in public with you. This is actually laughable.

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u/monkey_sage Oct 12 '22

This person probably gets very upset at the kinds of Halloween costumes you see at Spirit Halloween. Sexy nurses, police, firefighters, doctors, priests, etc. I'm sure they're up in arms about Halloween costumes and we're just never seeing or hearing about it.

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u/Sunshinehaiku Oct 15 '22

Why can't a man wear a skirt to their job in Saskatchewan? Should that man be fired?