Joe Bob’s Thought of the Day: Drag Edition

Celluloid Sickness

Came back to say I appreciated you doubling down on this in the watchalong tonight.

Really glad one of the Daniels shared on stage during his acceptance speech that he dressed in drag as a kid. Made me think of Divine and Ed Wood. True Heroes

Try it it's fun

I doubt John Wayne or most the others would allow their children to sit through the drag shows like the one at the Tennessee Theater that had simulated sex acts , fake dicks and tits and worse last December . Let’s who is more capable in life 20 years from now , the kids that attended the shows or the ones with John Wayne Parenting who take their kids to see How Rednecks Saved Hollywood . Should the state ban kids from that show , the mutants will still pass on the teachings and films and I’m not being sarcastic . We need not be in total agreement on all topics . We fight and argue then go to watering hole to tell jokes .

I'll only get worried if JB tucks himself and starts dancing to Goodbye Horses in the mirror!

Chaz Kangas

Absolutely no drag queen is doing anything "too sexual" "in front of children." It's pearl-clutchers oversexualizing the act of drag itself as the latest coded language pivot to make life harder for trans people. The way the legislation reads, it would force any business hosting a drag event to potentially have to classify as an "adult entertainment" establishment. It's incredibly vague and easy to weaponize against anyone and anything that remotely plays with gender constructs. If there was a sincere effort for children's safety, the focus would be guns or public school food availability or things that actually affect their daily well being.

GeddyLeeRoth

Wait until you hear about Kitara!

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Don’t forget fucking RUDY GIULIANI!

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I'm so glad I live in New Orleans.

Who gets to judge what is and is not appropriate? You? Me? A governor? A concerned parent? As I said above, this ain't about kids. You know it. I know it. We all know it. That's the headline veneer. Let's not pretend.

Except the law doesn’t only apply to lewd drag. It includes any sexualized performances that don’t currently have an age limit associated with them.

Only if JB thinks any of those old comedians doing drag did it in any way that could be remotely described as being too sexual for children. Well, maybe Buddy Hackett bc his comedy was always too dirty for children, which is why it’s highly unlikely children would be in the comedy club at the same time. It’s disingenuous for JB to try to equate an old-time comedian dressing in camp for cheap laughs to current day stripper-like drag where they twerk, make sexual jokes and gather up dollars from the audience. When people pretend to not know the difference to try to make a social justice point, it’s bound to upset people with legitimate concerns about what kids are exposed to.

Just leave our Joe Bob alone 🤣

GeddyLeeRoth

He's good friends with John Waters so you better believe it. Remember recently when Fox tweeted about him as if they didn't know who he was? The comments reminding them who he is was awesome. It's like being offended by and finding out about Kiss, Sabbath, Alice Cooper et al. They'd fit perfectly in that Rock It's Your Decision propaganda that Cinema Snob reviewed. "Calling Captain and Tenille a sin is a sin against the word, sin!"

Mike Tocci

Bring em all in for questioning!

couldn't agree with you more

If he's not getting a reaction then he's not being interesting. I think it's safe to say Joe Bob has no problem being interesting! Tell him to keep at it and voicing his opinion. We appreciate him!

Drag is not a crime.

Keep supporting us Queers. ♡♡

As long as drag shows are done tastefully, I don't see a problem with them. But to drag (pun totally intended) a person, in drag, to jail for doing something tastefully, let's say as an artist performance piece, is just asinine. Also, why specifically target drag performances? If you want to protect children from lewdness (although they see more of that on social media and YouTube), shouldn't the law be aimed towards potentially harmful public displays of ANY kind. The problem here is that it comes across as being a targeted assault on a specific group of people for which the vast majority of said group have done absolutely nothing wrong. That's itself is wrong no matter how you spin it.

Critical thinking tells me we'd have to dissect the detail of the drag performance to really understand what is harmful and what is not. There's this simple idea of what freedom means that a lot of people seem to have forgotten: Live and Let Live (so long as it doesn't hurt anyone!). Warm regards!

JB’s reply to the comments criticizing his POV: I don't see how I misunderstood the law. It says if you're performing in drag in public where children are present, you can get up to a year in jail.all my examples are people who performed in drag in public where children were present.