Is sending kids to drag shows pedophillia?

To demonstrate that no matter how someone identifies their own gender, they are not an inherent threat to anyone or anything, they don't impinge on society in some way, they're not to be feared, they're just people like everyone else. The idea is not TOLERANCE, it's ACCEPTANCE. This country is about your freedom to do as you please, provided "as you please" doesn't illegally encroach on "as I please." If that "as you please" included identifying and living your life as a gender other than the one you were born with, then who cares, literally, at all. Demonstrating this to children helps them understand that a person = a person. It's not to show your butthole to a child or somehow "pedophilia" which is a category error. A show is a show. A "philia" is an affinity or desire or compulsion.

I promise you, though, per capita more children have been abused by clergy in the last year than have been abused at drag shows in the last hundred. Do you also get equally disgusted by priests and churches? Should we, as a society, ban children from going to church, because of how much abuse, DOCUMENTED and legally adjudicated, there has been over the last let's just take 50 years?

I am also saying that kids should not be allowed to go to drag shows, unless it is legitimately child friendly. 

But when they are showing parts of their naked body, to young children, and making provocative comments to kids that is when it becomes a problem. 

So, we should be exposing our kids to men, dressed up as women, who entertain.

Clergy are most certainly in a position of authority, as are drag queens when vulnerable children are ordered to accept them by teachers abusing their authority.

Since most of the Clergy is gay, I approve.

Should the same prohibition apply to churches? 

Let's play pretend, okay? You and I are having a discussion, you ask me what I'm doing this weekend, and I say I'm taking my seven year old to drag queen story hour Saturday morning, the one at the library, and I checked, no one is showing their butthole or giving out gift bags with butt plugs in them, or whatever else you're really worried about deep down, it's a straightforward story hour. Given your statement above, please make your argument to convince me I should NOT be doing this. 

We should be teaching our children that unless whatever someone is doing directly affects their lives in some measurable way (i.e. not "It's gross! I wouldn't do that!"), that to be an American means to shrug your shoulders and understand that even if you disagree with what they're doing, even if you'd never do it, that everyone has a right to their own identity. It's not hard to understand. 

Imagine if your child's teacher forced your children to accept ...DONALD TRUMP.

Boom headshot!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_clergy_in_the_Catholic_Church

Kansas City Star found the AIDS-related death rate among priests was "more than six times" the rate among the general population in the 14 states studied

So yes including churches, but I have yet to find any modern day churches with this problem, with the exception of some. 

You can do whatever the hell you please, but when you insist that I must buy into whatever you want to believe, then that is taking away my right to believe what I want to believe. 

So I would ask you if you think boys dressing up as girls is beneficial to society, and I would also ask the reason you are bringing your kid specifically to a drag queen, and not another person. What makes it different, and so special?

I wouldn't care what your answer was, and I would leave it at that. 

So I would ask you if you think boys dressing up as girls is beneficial to society, and I would also ask the reason you are bringing your kid specifically to a drag queen, and not another person. What makes it different, and so special?

My advice is to just start here: shut the fuck up about it then from the start,

 Freedom of association is the American way. 

None of these story times exist.

 You can believe, absolutely, whatever you want. If I find whatever that belief is abhorrent, I am within my rights to say "you're a dick." This is what you're actually objecting to: society deciding you're a dick. By all means believe whatever you like, but own whatever it is fully and understand that you aren't insulated in any way from others deciding you're an unpleasant douche because of it. After all, it's ALL beliefs. 

I would respond that I think it's important to demonstrate to my kids that humans are a diverse group, but they're all humans. Plus they're reading Horton Hears a Who, that's their favorite story.

My advice is to just start here: shut the fuck up about it then from the start, because whatever anyone says to you is pointless, you have your position calcified and you can live your life just fine without ever going to a drag show, or worrying who's taking their kids to drag queen story hour. Then I don't even have to know you're an unpleasant douche. See how it works?

If you take a Drag Queen show, and have the same exact act, but with actual women instead, would it be acceptable or appropriate for kids to be there?

Ok, well that's your opinion, and I'm going to call you a dick for that. Now don't get mad, understand?

Difference between you and me, is that your conclusion to your argument, is to tell your opponent to shut the f*** up, and mine is to make valid points.

Who is being more intellectual here?

You say that people should have the ability to express their own opinions because we are so diverse, yet you don't respect mine, and actually get pressed about me saying that kids shouldn't go to drag queen shows. I thought everyone's opinion matters.

Either get over it, or support your opinion with facts and not emotions. 

I can understand the reason to be against these stripper shows being exposed to young audiences.