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"Groomer Schools" | James Lindsay

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The Point of Drag Queen's Story Hour

An academic paper published in Curriculum Inquiry last year, what they say is the point of Drag Queen's story hour. They say that yeah maybe families and such parents, grandparents etc will feel welcome at the performances. But when we say family friendly we don't necessarily mean that, we mean the family that the queer person leaves their home defined on the street,. That's cult grooming, leave your family and join our family, that's literally the definition of cult grooming. It's to bring up sexual and sexuality and gender as generative themes for children. These cartoonish characters they present to them are there to get them to raise the question, why are you dressed like a girl? And

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