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Toms River teacher jailed, accused of taking sex photos in classroom
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(The only thing that would have made it sound more strange would have been "engaging in unwanted sexual conduct with himself")
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Pine Island teacher/coach arrested and charged with sexually assaulting student.
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Retired CCSD teacher arrested after alleged sexual assault of minor.
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What makes you think kids are having to try and figure out what drag is supposed to mean?
Alternatively, what makes you think kids are having difficulty figuring out what drag is supposed to mean? Alternatively, why do you think drag is "supposed to mean" anything at all? |
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Victorville high school teacher arrested on suspicion of unlawful sex with female student.
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Soldotna teacher, union president charged with sexual abuse of a minor.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Matthew Best isn't linking to those because NOBODY DENIES THAT THEY EXIST.
On the other hand, we keep getting told that there's no risk with drag queens or with transgender identified people, they would never ever do that, and that any instance of it happening is imagined. We also keep seeing activists getting outraged about the rapist or pedophile being "misgendered" and seemingly not giving a single **** about the wellbeing of their victims. And we keep seeing activists getting up in arms at the mere suggestion that a male sex offender who discovered their magical gendery soul AFTER being arrested should be housed with the males - they keep loudly insisting that anyone who says they are trans is obviously trans and it cannot be questioned in any way whatsoever ever, and that criminals should have the RIGHT to self-identify themselves into the female prison estate if they want to. Maybe if the activists weren't so busy trying to gaslight everyone - especially females - this wouldn't be a discussion at all. |
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California School District Pays $1M To Victim Of Disgraced Teacher And Ethnic Studies Activist
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And, since there are an estimated 1.6 million transgender people in the U.S., it is statistically unlikely for there not to be. The real question is if trans drag queens (or even cis drag queens) are likely enough to be child molesters that they require extraordinary measures to protect children in a venue like a public library. If this were to be true then I wonder what should be done to protect them from parents, relatives, and family friends in private venues like their homes. After all, those are the culprits in the vast majority of incidents. Stranger danger only accounts for a few percent, public or private. |
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Whether a drag queen is trans or not is irrelevant.
And I don't think they require extraordinary measures. I do, however, think that some of the events that have occurred have highlighted the need for more stringent safeguarding practices across the board - which includes drag queens. Some of this has gained a lot of rhetoric. But one of the events was a drag queen that flopped on the floor and invited children to lay on top of them during a DQSH event. That's something that I think most parents would consider inappropriate, regardless of how the person is dressed or how they identify. It turned out that the specific DQ in question had previously been charged with child sex offenses, under a different name. So this was a case of an actual child predator laying on the floor and having kids lay on top of them. Parents were irate - and I think it's reasonable for them to have been irate. There was pushback because the venue and the company hosting the DQSH had not done a background check on them. The safeguards that parents assumed were in place for events aimed at their kids were absent. But when that hit social media... it was met by a host of online activists (?) who got very angry and called the parents "transphobes" for being angry that a child predator had been put in a position to incorporate children into their deviant behavior. Reality is that whether or not that DQ was transgender had nothing to do with it - it had to do with a lack of basic common-sense safeguarding being put in place. The same thing keeps happening in this thread. Some of us hold the view that events aimed at kids, especially ones where the parents aren't going to be present, should be held to a g-rated standard, and comprehensive background checks should be done on the performers - DQSH is the instance that prompted the discussion, but it's not at all limited to that context, it's a universal context. But even here, I've been met with people who have said it's completely irrational and impossible to expect adults who are interacting with children in situations like this to refrain from swearing or engaging in sexually suggestive performances or behaviors. It's certainly not helped by idiotic laws that those in Florida. That doesn't help the situation at all, it's an overreaction and it's dumb. |
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Former Port Orange High School teacher re-arrested for sexual conduct with a minor.
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It doesn't mention if the victims were all minors. It may be implied, but I'm not sure. |
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and suspect that no such (reliable and credible) evidence will be forthcoming... because no such (reliable and credible) evidence exists. As you and I well know, there's a small but zealous constituency of people who have an unnaturally-strong urge to expose drag queens as disproportionately dangerous (sexually) to children. And that small group of people has the habit of either hyperbolising or wholesale-inventing "anecdotes" in which drag queens either a) are overtly sexual in their performances to children, or b) commit some form of sexual offence against children. Credulous fellow travellers then uncritically lap up and repeat-disseminate these stories, and before long they've achieved such traction that even the mainstream starts to (uncritically) accept them as substantively true. Classic misinformation tactics, in other words. In the real world, of course, children are several orders of magnitude more likely to be sexually assaulted by their own parents or close relatives; and they're also a fair few orders of magnitude more likely to be sexually assaulted by teachers, sports coaches or youth group adult leaders/organisers/helpers. Which is where this thread comes in. |
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Obviously it's animus. Most of these drag queen story hour events seem to be meant for children so young that their parents have to be there in person anyway to directly care for them. These types of events are about as low risk as you can hope for. They are 100% public performances where parents are immediately supervising their children. You'd have to get very creative to think of any scenario where the performer is going to be able to engage in any acts of gross abuse and not immediately get pummeled by the audience of parents.
Like you say, the real risks are either immediately family members or those in positions of responsibility to act as authorities over the children, not strangers. |
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Surprise music teacher arrested on charges of child pornography possession.
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True. Any rational person believing that such 'precautionary' measures of vetting for a drag queen to associate with children in a public library or other such venue are so critically important would, of course, also believe that the vetting of the parents attending should be much more thorough. Invasive, even, Statistics on child molestation being what they are, and all. |
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