{"id":85524,"date":"2023-07-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85524"},"modified":"2023-07-10T08:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T13:42:57","slug":"priorities-west-metro-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85524","title":{"rendered":"Priorities: West Metro Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As I noted a couple weeks ago<\/a>, drag bores me stiff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it’s a little galling that “drag” – a minstrel-show appropriation of a (to me) deadly dull art form, presented under the fairly proposterous premise that people with what people used to refer to as “alternate lifestyles” are remotely “underground” [1], especially in places like the Twin Cities these days – is one of our currently inescapable social skirmishes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, a children’s book store in Chaska – Chaska<\/em> – was the subject of a viral video in which a woman castigated an employee over the store holding a “drag story time”. [2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, that was a line that the increasingly “blue” far-west metro will not tolerate being crossed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1677852317750796288\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Drag shows: Meh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metro parents tripping over themselves to signal their virtue by, er, dragging their kids to a minstrel show? Blech. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish I could do a blind exit poll of the kids who got stuffed into that store, to see how many of the boys were creeped straight the hell out – or bored out of their minds and desperately wanting to do pretty much anything else in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1] One of Scott Johnson’s great contributions to the American intellectual landscape was referring to today’s LGBT movement as based around “the love that just won’t shut up”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2] Has the store ever done a “Blue Collar Family Story Time?” An “immigrant Story Time, or a “Veterans Story Time”? An “Intact Nuclear Family Story Time?” Why is it that men doing a female minstrel show are the only “storytellers” our extreme left wants to recognize?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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