I don’t mean personal hygiene – mine, Susan’s or the cats’. I’m talking culture wars here. Some of our (deluded) fellow citizens want us to believe that drag queen story hours are meant to groom our offspring to become gay. This is such an ignorant position. Drag queens are transvestites not gay dudes. If anything, they are grooming children to become avid readers or perhaps to try out the attire of their opposite-gender parent or opposite-gender siblings.
I personally don’t see the harm in that (reading or cross-dressing). After all, pretending is a crucial part of growing up. I still do it every time that I change a cell in one of my financial spreadsheets or family budget. Doing so, I ask myself, “what if” or “what would?” There are myriad possibilities.
What would:
- The S&P losing 2,000 points because GOP morons decide not to raise the debt ceiling do to our retirement plans?
- Donald Trump winning the 2024 race for the presidency and raising taxes by 50% on those of us making below $400K/yr so that he could reward his billionaire buddies with a raging hard-on of a tax reduction do to our standard of living?
- Wearing sexy lingerie do, if anything, for our sex life?
Pretending isn’t only for children, after all.
I don’t think that drag queen story hours groom kids to be anything except intellectually curious, but I wonder about the grooming effects that gifts from billionaires might have on politicians and supreme court justices. When Leonard Leo contributes tens of thousands to the coffers of Clarence Thomas’ family, does that groom Justice Thomas regarding his judicial opinions? Does it keep him from recusing himself when his opinion might favor the agenda of the Federalist Society?
How about when Harlan Crow rewards Justice Thomas and his family with lavish vacations, expensive gifts, a private school tuition for the Thomas’ heir(s), and a rent-free living arrangement for Justice Thomas’ mother? Is Thomas being groomed to be equally generous to his benefactor when certain cases come before the Supreme Court? Yeah, there’s a lot of grooming potential here.
And it would not shock me to learn that Clarence sometimes slips into Ginni’s lingerie.