{"id":1367792,"date":"2022-03-09T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367792"},"modified":"2022-03-09T20:36:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:36:10","slug":"democratic-male-leader-invites-drag-queen-to-entertain-women-legislators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-male-leader-invites-drag-queen-to-entertain-women-legislators\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Male Leader Invites &#039;Drag Queen&#039; to Entertain Women Legislators"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-male-leader-invites-drag-queen-to-entertain-women-legislators%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367792&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The House Democrats\u2019 2022 campaign committee has hired a man who presents himself as a parody of a woman \u2014 in \u201cdrag\u201d \u2014 to entertain Democratic legislators during their pre-election strategy session.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Sean Maloney (D-NY), the head of the\u00a0Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), invited a man with the stage name \u201cLady Bunny\u201d to provide \u201cmusical entertainment\u201d on March 9 at the caucus\u2019 2022 Issues Conference.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/House-Dems-entertain-Drag-Queen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20171914\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/House-Dems-entertain-Drag-Queen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Dem-Drag-Queen-to-Entertain-Women-Legislators.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20171850\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Dem-Drag-Queen-to-Entertain-Women-Legislators.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is part of our government \u2026 It is\u00a0a problem for the party that claims to represent women\u2019s interests,\u201d said Natasha Chart, a feminist who advocates for women\u2019s rights. \u201cIf it is not a deliberate insult, they haven\u2019t been thinking about it very much, have they?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Performing next Tuesday at Oscar&#8217;s in Palm Springs!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kIIlTaR2vw\">https:\/\/t.co\/kIIlTaR2vw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lrtTmccv7n\">pic.twitter.com\/lrtTmccv7n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LADY BUNNY (@LADYBUNNY77) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LADYBUNNY77\/status\/1500923257440116739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ladybunny.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">describes himself<\/a> as:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A living drag legend, international sensation, razor-witted comic, fab DJ, and one kooky queen, the Lady Bunny experience can be summed up in her own words from V Magazine\u2019s \u201cThought Leaders\u201d issue: \u201cMy humor is outrageous, my look is over the top, and my politics are in your face. That\u2019s just the way I am!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Drag shows are \u201csexualized entertainment for nightclubs that exclude minors \u2026 I don\u2019t want any part of that and I can stay home,\u201d Chart said. But the DCCC event is a civic display of the party\u2019s priorities, not a commercial event at a closed-door nightclub, she said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is where policies are being decided and wrangled on behalf of the party that controls the presidency and Congress. So this is kind of a big deal in terms of a professional arena [for women, especially for women in politics]. If it matters that somebody did this at a big multinational corporation, and I think that it would, it matters more here. Because this is governance and affects all of us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chart continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Women complained for years, I think rightly, when you know their male bosses and work colleagues would go and do business after hours at sexualized nightclub events, where women were not going to want to attend or if you did go, you felt super-awkward the entire time. You would definitely complain if something like this was part of a company event and if it was highly sexualized. If that\u2019s the kind of show they\u2019re going to have to DCCC meeting, it\u2019s just going back to an old sexism that we\u2019ve objected to for a long, long time \u2026 This affects how men see women in the workplace, this affects how women see themselves and their potential in the workplace, and really speaks to I think the seriousness of leadership concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It sounds insulting to me. But no one on [Maloney\u2019s] staff is going to get any negative feedback on it from their immediate circle, or from staffers and other congressional offices. They\u2019re not going to get any negative feedback from journalists or activists that they follow on social media. And so none of the people whose opinions they care about are going to be reflected back to them as negative. They\u2019re just going to assume that all the criticism is from people who \u201cHate the gays\u201d basically \u2026 It probably doesn\u2019t occur to them at all that it would be offensive or bothersome to anyone because everything about the social circles that they move in has been designed to exclude such opinion, I\u2019m sure they did mean it like, \u201cOh, this will be great and everybody will love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The comedian\u2019s tweets are far less sexualized \u2014 and far more focused on economic class and the danger of war \u2014\u00a0 than tweets promoted by other cross-dressing men, such as \u201cdrag queens\u201d who sit with children during so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/drag-queen-story-hour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drag Queen Story Hours<\/a>\u201c:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">thread <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2C4vvFBJIQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/2C4vvFBJIQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LADY BUNNY (@LADYBUNNY77) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LADYBUNNY77\/status\/1500746905801928704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Billionaire Bloomberg&#8217;s site publishing an article on how another billionaire we should send troops in. I wonder if those troops he&#8217;d like to send will include his own or Bloomberg&#8217;s family members? And how they&#8217;ll profit from this. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8bPSJTUzKL\">https:\/\/t.co\/8bPSJTUzKL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LADY BUNNY (@LADYBUNNY77) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LADYBUNNY77\/status\/1498597671208116234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blackface shows were once routine and socially accepted, but now socially marginalized, Chart said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Everybody understands \u201cOkay, well, maybe there was something wrong there and we shouldn\u2019t have ignored it.\u201d \u2026 Now there\u2019s the impulse to double down extra hard on \u201cOkay, well this is a problem is that we absolutely have to do everything, to not make the same mistake again.\u201d But the problem is they\u2019re making the same mistakes again because they\u2019re listening to the noisiest people and not being thoughtful about what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The drag shows are better described as \u201cwoman Face\u201d than blackface, said Chart.\u00a0Drag shows \u201cmake fun of women as being stupid and vain and shallow and good for \u2014 as they say \u2014 only one thing because that is a common male sexual fantasy. Within the gay male community, it translates into a male idea of female sexuality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives have long opposed the public display of \u201cDrag Queens\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/drag-queen-story-hour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a reckless threat to children\u2019s sexual development<\/a>. This concern, for example, has helped GOP politics in Virginia and other states.<\/p>\n<p>The feminist and liberal critique of \u201cdrag queens\u201d is being <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2015\/02\/is-mary-cheney-right-about-drag-being-like-blackface.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supercharged<\/a> by the rising clout of non-homosexual transgender activists who claim each person\u2019s fluid feeling of \u201cgender identity\u201d is more important in culture and law than the reality of their male or female body, or each person\u2019s heterosexual, gay, or lesbian character:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cross dressing is no longer fun, it\u2019s a political act thanks to TRAs who strip the humour from everything like an acid wash. <\/p>\n<p>Accordingly. <\/p>\n<p>Drag is now woman face. <\/p>\n<p>A movement incapable of humour cannot expect people to treat things as a \u201cbit of fun\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jebadoo2\/status\/1444068456677220352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Drag? Definitely woman face. Awful. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4QVUMdLkYj\">https:\/\/t.co\/4QVUMdLkYj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anti Kiln \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Teelou40) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Teelou40\/status\/1071964192817717248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n[embedded content]\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Men in drag makes a mockery of female sexual objectification <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C8clxjScaD\">pic.twitter.com\/C8clxjScaD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Women&#8217;s Voices (@WomenReadWomen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WomenReadWomen\/status\/1231993682611458048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Democrats\u2019 2022 campaign committee has hired a man who presents himself as a parody of a woman \u2014 in \u201cdrag\u201d \u2014 to entertain Democratic legislators during their pre-election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}