Finally, common ground
The healers looking to build bridges between Red and Blue America now have a place to start: mutual animosity toward crossdressing schoolchildren. Today's story is the more predictable one. A Texas school cancelled its annual crossdressing day (aka TWIRP...) after conservative Christians complained that it could lead to homosexuality.
"It might be fun today to dress up like a little girl -- kids think it's cute and things like that. And you start playing around with it and, like drugs, you do a little here and there (and) eventually it gets you," Davies told reporters.
"It is outrageous that a school in a small town in east Texas would encourage their 4-year-olds to be cross-dressers," institute litigation director Hiram Sasser said.
Well right-wing nuts, shake hands with left-wing nuts! A month ago a New York school cancelled its crossdressing day on the grounds that it was "disrespectful to transgender people."
It's good to know that whether you're a liberal or a conservative, we can all agree that children must be prevented from expressing themselves at all costs.
True the Red and Blue schools came up with different alternatives -- the New York students were told to wear Yankees gear while Texas went with camouflage -- but you gotta start somewhere.
Comments
Boy, Americans sure know how to take away all the fun of cross-dressing.
Yes: FUN -- remember the good old days when dragshow was actually FUNNY, and not a politicial statement? Was the movie SOME LIKE IT HOT a comedy or a pamphlet?
Get a clue!
-A.R.Yngve
http://yngve.bravehost.com
Posted by: A.R.Yngve | November 19, 2004 2:05 AM
And you start playing around with it and, like drugs, you do a little here and there (and) eventually it gets you," Davies told reporters.
I must admit, to my great shame, that it was indeed playing around with cross-dressing that led irrevocably to my lifelong drug addiction.
Posted by: Vance | November 23, 2004 4:23 PM