Comments by "" (@dingokidneys) on "Sydney Watson" channel.

  1. I saw a part of an interview with Morgan Freeman where he was asked about the "race issue." His response was in essence: How about we just stop calling one another white and black. Just stop describing ourselves and others in these terms and it'll eventually go away. The thing is, he had personally experienced institutionalised racism; something which these people have not. But in order to try to feel a solidarity with those who had, they have to try to characterise themselves as victims rather than just appreciate the benefits that they've been gifted by the people who had to fight for those freedoms.
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  2. Drag queen storytime initially made me think of the old fashioned pantomime 'dame' where a man would be dressed as an older woman in a flamboyant way. Think the Ugly Duchess in Alice in Wonderland. This was meant to be silly and fun and the gag was rolled out again some years ago in the Saint Trinian's movies where the same actor played a girl's villianous father and his sister, the school principal. That stuff didn't hurt kids nor confuse them about gender identity. Kids are very familiar with the fun of dressing up as something they are clearly not and so I don't think that stories read to them by an adult playing "dress ups" would be inherently damaging. However, if there's some kind of sexualised aspect to this - like the twerking bit or sexualised costumes - that seems to me quite wrong and inappropriate.
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