An eight year old drag queen

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Tis_Bearself said:
The parents being in the creative fields suggests to me more that they encouraged their kid to act like an older adult before he was ready. I knew a few like that in the distant past
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We all have confirmation biases. It’s important to overcome them.

I don’t know any like that but I know they would exist.
 
LittleFlower said:
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FrDavid96:
Are you writing about the link in the OP of this thread???
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I am writing about the original video, which is referenced in the article, as well as the article.

How is dressing up now a mortal sin? Far out, we wouldn’t want children to have imagination or be creative, as they could sin.
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I did not see any video. I only read a text article. There was nothing amusing about the text.

I am not going to condemn what happens in a video without seeing it. And as a general rule, I don’t view internet videos when I’m using the parish internet account—that can lead to unintended problems. I am imagining myself saying to the bishop “Yes, Your Excellency, that’s right, all of our parish data was lost because I picked up a virus when I was watching an internet video. What video you ask? Well since you must know, it was about this 8 year old drag queen…” I am saying this as I am packing my bags and turning to the “help wanted” section in the newspaper.

So maybe the video you say was just amusing art. I won’t argue that with you since I haven’t seen it.

I will argue however that causing children to be confused about either their own genders or about human gender as a subject is not healthy and not good for the children. It is not a good value.
 
JimG said:
Note that the 8 year old drag queen of the article (and thread) title is not the main subject. Lactatia is only the subject of the first paragraph, but it is this Lactatia mentioned in an Elle magazine article which serves as the jumping off point forthe author of the Public Discourse article, because it reminds him of his own story and his own gender dysphoria. His story begins under the heading of “My Grandma and Me.”
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Thank you for pointing that out.

It helps if we are all talking about the same thing.
 
You know, I think many of us have forgotten how much pressure there is on any given generation when we were kids. We live in terror that someone will laugh at our cloths, our haircut, that we will answer a question incorrectly, or miss a hoop in the gym [even though most of us did half the time.]

MOST parents are aware of this, and do what they can to boost their kids confidence, and make them feel good about themselves, and when we came home after some humiliation, Mom or Dad tried to make it right, if we were lucky.

Sure, some parents might have gotten a good laugh if Jr. got in to mommies closet once, but after one or two times it becomes a pattern. That is when parenting skills need to keep in. We had magic shows, we didn’t have drag shows. I should not have to even remind anyone that the early years are the most important in a child’s development.

Things are even harder on children now than they were for us. Last year at our High School four kids committed suicide, four! Pretending that all the crazy stuff going on right now protects no one. After school satan clubs, lesbian gay straight alliance clubs. So no. One time it’s cute. After that it’s time to buy Jr. a G.I. Joe and a sailor’s suit.
 
Don’t give them any ideas. The sky is the limit for the new “civil rights” movement just so we can get that peer approval on Facebook.
 
Personally, as a woman, I always found drag to be disgusting. It is like black face, just for the opposite gender. Now, I make fun of members of my own sex all the time, but I do not appreciate feminity being caricatured in a world where feminity is undervalued. I hope these drag kids do not get a permanently skewed view of women.
 
There was a lot of pushback from this. But there was also the same amount of pushback against so-called gay “marriage”. It was pretty unthinkable even 20 years ago.

The sky’s the limit now.
 
I don’t necessarily see this a problem that is in regard to our religion, but rather the way we parent in the west. I am not a parent as I am a 17 year old male. However I have noticed that in order to seem “in”, and “progressive” parents will try anything to fit in. I see it as incredibly scary that we are normalizing behavior like this. Under any other circumstance an 8 year old boy playing dress up would be weird, but acceptable( if it is not being done professionally). No. An 8 year old boy should not strut his ass on stage. Especially in front of many adults. Our morals are changing just so that we can virtue signal, and I am disgusted.
 
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I’m new here. I literally just created my account today. The word I used is in PG movies, and my point still stands. On a side-note: I love your profile picture.
 
I mean, let me make this clear. I don’t think little children should be doing adult-style drag shows.

But drag queens aren’t necessarily transgender. Or gay even. Drag shows are meant to be campy and goofy and over-the-top. Sure, they can be racy and naughty (hence why I don’t think minors should be involved) but I think some issues are being conflated here.
 
ChunkMonk said:
Cross-dressing is a mortal sin…
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Do you mind if I ask how old you are?
I cannot help but observe you regularly make somewhat universalised statements around CAF using terminology I don’t think you don’t seem to understand well.
 
ChunkMonk said:
Cross-dressing is a mortal sin
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Except, the claim needs to be kept in context…can an 8 year old cross dressing have sufficient intellect to have full knowledge, and fully consent to this sin?

Perhaps, but “Cross dressing is a mortal sin” is a bit of a generalization, I would say.
 
Those qualifications are the same for every mortal sin. Murder is a mortal sin, but an 8 year old who kills another may not have the capacity that allows his killing to rise to the level of mortal sin. Likewise, cross-dressing is a mortal sin, but an 8 year old might not have the capacity to understand this and his culpability may be lowered.

The adults around the child do not have those excuses.
 
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Come on.
Murder by definition is a mortal sin only because the very definition requires full intent. One does not non culpably murder, that is called manslaughter or something else.

Simply “cross dressing”, like many other grave matters specified in the Commandments, is not a mortal sin.

The word you are looking for is “grave matter” or “objective mortal sin”.
Only in Latin does what you say make acceptable theological sense.

Have you comprehensively read the CCC on these matters?
 
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There is no such thing as “objectively mortal sin” but that doesn’t mean I’m going to pretend it’s all a big question and nothing is ever mortal sin. Sorry. Bark up some other tree with that nonsense.
 
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