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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Which one is the drag queen?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Right!? She looks like one for sure lol

[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They are trying to normalize assault and I'm terrified they'll get their way.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I’m worried about the boys of my community who think that they could become women because they’re effeminate, care, and they like wearing makeup, and they like wearing drag.

Ah, so attacking someone and making a scene is going to fix this how...?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also, if a boy wanted to wear makeup and a dress while still being a boy, you know this lady would still have a problem with it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that exactly what these drag performers are doing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think so, you are supposed to use she/her with drags no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe when they're in costume? Wikipedia uses he/him for RuPaul.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, while in drag is what I was thinking.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Also, has she tried talking to those boys?

I mean, if they're so easily swayed that just seeing drag queens will turn them into women[?] then surely they can be easily swayed back. Maybe show them well-oiled, handsome muscle men without their shirts on to inspire them to be manly?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

When I find myself feeling particularly queer, I just watch Turkish oil wrestling to man myself back up again.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Not gay not gay not gay not gay

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Ah yes, that definitely makes me feel generally heterosexual and I don't know why any male child would find that anything but something that makes them really want to have sex with a woman.

I also recommend they go down to the park and play some shirts vs. skins full contact football which is very much not homoerotic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The volleyball scene from Top Gun should have you covered.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Directions unclear, now I'm in the hot sun in blue jeans, diving into the sand.

You know Maverick never got the sand out of those jeans, absolute psychopath.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Moms for Liberty in Yolo County, Calif.

the name gives me the giggles

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I thought for sure the article was pulling my leg when it got to that part

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://its.ucdavis.edu/people/beth-bourne/

She's the STEPS+ coordinator at the Institute of Transportation Studies. Should transport her otta there.

STEPS+ is the Sustainable Transportation and Energy Pathways Program which is all about moving towards sustainable transportation.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Too bad it can't be sustained with hatred or she'd be perfect for the job.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Beth Bourne sucks.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago

Beth Bourne, an employee at the University ofCalifornia Davis and active chair of the far-right extremist group Moms for Liberty in Yolo County, Calif., launched into an unsolicited tirade against a group ofdrag queens who were officially invited to partake in a video shoot promoting an upcoming pageant.

Fire this piece of shit. She gives the school a bad name.

I wouldn’t feel terrible if this asshole got zapped by lightning. And hit by an asteroid. And launched into the sun.

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