10 year old to launch first "drag club" for kids

[UglyCasanova]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ar-old-drag-queen-founded-drag-club-kids.html


This has psycho parents and suicide written all over it. At ten years old:

'You can just do you': Boy, 10, founds a drag club for KIDS so they can express themselves in a 'positive, encouraging, and safe' space

• Desmond Napoles from Brooklyn in New York City is better known by his drag name, Desmond is Amazing
• He started dressing up as a toddler and began wearing dresses aged six
• He has since appeared in a music video with RuPaul and his performance at Gay Pride in New York in 2015 went viral
• An active member in the LGBTQ community, Desmond now wants to inspire other young people and promote anit-bullying and suicide prevention
• He is launching Haus of Amazing, a drag club for 'drag kids'
• He also hopes to have a fashion and cosmetics line in the future

Pics in the article, not posting them because it’s weird as hell.


So what say you AT, is it child abuse?

 

[bshole]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ar-old-drag-queen-founded-drag-club-kids.html


This has psycho parents and suicide written all over it. At ten years old:

'You can just do you': Boy, 10, founds a drag club for KIDS so they can express themselves in a 'positive, encouraging, and safe' space

• Desmond Napoles from Brooklyn in New York City is better known by his drag name, Desmond is Amazing
• He started dressing up as a toddler and began wearing dresses aged six
• He has since appeared in a music video with RuPaul and his performance at Gay Pride in New York in 2015 went viral
• An active member in the LGBTQ community, Desmond now wants to inspire other young people and promote anit-bullying and suicide prevention
• He is launching Haus of Amazing, a drag club for 'drag kids'
• He also hopes to have a fashion and cosmetics line in the future

Pics in the article, not posting them because it’s weird as hell.


So what say you AT, is it child abuse?

I dunno know about that. I do know that my daughter has no interest in ever getting married or having kids. I have a niece who is of the same opinion. I think the long term trend may be population reduction. Perhaps that's a good thing.

Regrading this story, why do you care? Is this kid related to you or something?

 

[nickqt]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ar-old-drag-queen-founded-drag-club-kids.html


This has psycho parents and suicide written all over it. At ten years old:

'You can just do you': Boy, 10, founds a drag club for KIDS so they can express themselves in a 'positive, encouraging, and safe' space

• Desmond Napoles from Brooklyn in New York City is better known by his drag name, Desmond is Amazing
• He started dressing up as a toddler and began wearing dresses aged six
• He has since appeared in a music video with RuPaul and his performance at Gay Pride in New York in 2015 went viral
• An active member in the LGBTQ community, Desmond now wants to inspire other young people and promote anit-bullying and suicide prevention
• He is launching Haus of Amazing, a drag club for 'drag kids'
• He also hopes to have a fashion and cosmetics line in the future

Pics in the article, not posting them because it’s weird as hell.


So what say you AT, is it child abuse?

Is it child abuse to what? Allow your child to experiment with sexual or gender identity?

Would experimentation with religion or hair color be child abuse? (In some cultures, the answer would be yes).

Cultural relativism sure is, uh, relative.

 

[FelixDeCat]

The sexual revolution has been so perverse, it has even led to resignations and firings across the US lately.

Promoting gender confusion and cultural decay in the younger generations is a bad idea, not that things are bad enough already.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Here's the kid's Facebook page. He seems to be having a lot of fun. <shrug>

https://www.facebook.com/DesmondisAmazing/

 

[trenchfoot]

Ah yes, the old debauchery-moral-decay-leads-to-the-fall-of-civilization argument being revisited?

Where are those starched in the whitey-tightys fundamentalist Pence admirers when you need them?

 

[Zaap]

I'll never get some parents weird obsessions with smearing lipstick and makeup all over younger children and having them parade around for other weird adults like it's some amazing thing.

I don't give a shit if its tarted up as the usual beauty pagent bullshit, or this. Gay/straight are not yet relevant terms in pre-pub children, and certainly not toddlers.

Its mostly the weirdness of the parents living some insanity via their kids and expecting normal people to be amazed that 'wow! Your kid has makeup all over them and little outfits and you take them around to parade for other (probably some percentage 100% pedo) weirdo parents.

I don't know as I'd call it child abuse as per the OP's question. But just weird, obsessive parents living some vicarious thrill through their children.

There's always the story that "why, lil darlin' always dressed up as a lil tart to entertainin' adults who like dolled up kids, even as a wee baby...!" line of bullshit that's supposed to make one go "oh okay. Sure. You're NOT foisting some weirdness of your own off on lil darlin!'" but I don't buy it. Its weird 'pagent parent shit'.

 

[justoh]

Seems likely that this would only bother the religious. Normally child abuse = piety with these people, but that's how sanctimony works. It's really only giving them the willies because of god. It's god giving them the willies, as he does. These sexually oppressed hypocrites think it's a virtuous act to cause children to feel shame about all sorts of things they probably shouldn't.

 

[brycejones]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ar-old-drag-queen-founded-drag-club-kids.html


This has psycho parents and suicide written all over it. At ten years old:

'You can just do you': Boy, 10, founds a drag club for KIDS so they can express themselves in a 'positive, encouraging, and safe' space

• Desmond Napoles from Brooklyn in New York City is better known by his drag name, Desmond is Amazing
• He started dressing up as a toddler and began wearing dresses aged six
• He has since appeared in a music video with RuPaul and his performance at Gay Pride in New York in 2015 went viral
• An active member in the LGBTQ community, Desmond now wants to inspire other young people and promote anit-bullying and suicide prevention
• He is launching Haus of Amazing, a drag club for 'drag kids'
• He also hopes to have a fashion and cosmetics line in the future

Pics in the article, not posting them because it’s weird as hell.


So what say you AT, is it child abuse?

So what?

 

[Bitek]

Who knows. Perhaps this kid ends up a big celebrity and laughs all the way to the bank.

Why are the Kardashians a thing?

Yet they are and rich as hell.

Walk your own path

 

[urvile]

Unless it is defined by law as child abuse then no it isn't child abuse. I find it funny that conservatives like to crap on about cutting taxes and self reliance but have no problems with interfering in how other people raise their kids.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ar-old-drag-queen-founded-drag-club-kids.html


This has psycho parents and suicide written all over it. At ten years old:

'You can just do you': Boy, 10, founds a drag club for KIDS so they can express themselves in a 'positive, encouraging, and safe' space

• Desmond Napoles from Brooklyn in New York City is better known by his drag name, Desmond is Amazing
• He started dressing up as a toddler and began wearing dresses aged six
• He has since appeared in a music video with RuPaul and his performance at Gay Pride in New York in 2015 went viral
• An active member in the LGBTQ community, Desmond now wants to inspire other young people and promote anit-bullying and suicide prevention
• He is launching Haus of Amazing, a drag club for 'drag kids'
• He also hopes to have a fashion and cosmetics line in the future

Pics in the article, not posting them because it’s weird as hell.


So what say you AT, is it child abuse?

Yeah that's why the rate of suicide among the LGBT community is high. Supportive parents and open expression without reprisal. You nailed it on the head.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Here's the kid's Facebook page. He seems to be having a lot of fun. <shrug>

https://www.facebook.com/DesmondisAmazing/

Yes, and Facebook isn't known and constantly mocked for people portraying their life as amazing - but in actuality living in depression.... Nope... never heard that one....

The kid will commit suicide by about mid-twenties due to this bullshit. It's just attention whoring 101. One of the first things on the first video of that Facebook page... "Desmond's 2018 Predictions" followed by "The biggest movie this year will be about me!" speaks for itself.

To each their own, you guys can embrace this all you want - the end result will be depression because this isn't about expressing yourself, opening up, whatever other bullshit you want to call it. It's simply attention whoring from a child. Then the real world hits them on the face - because it's no longer about how popular you are in school. No one gives a shit when it comes to the real world, and thats when they lose it.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Someone start making pink triangle patches



#sarcasm dummies

 

[K1052]

Yes, and Facebook isn't known and constantly mocked for people portraying their life as amazing - but in actuality living in depression.... Nope... never heard that one....

The kid will commit suicide by about mid-twenties due to this bullshit. It's just attention whoring 101. One of the first things on the first video of that Facebook page... "Desmond's 2018 Predictions" followed by "The biggest movie this year will be about me!" speaks for itself.

To each their own, you guys can embrace this all you want - the end result will be depression because this isn't about expressing yourself, opening up, whatever other bullshit you want to call it. It's simply attention whoring from a child. Then the real world hits them on the face - because it's no longer about how popular you are in school. No one gives a shit when it comes to the real world, and thats when they lose it.

well this got pretty dark

 

[bshole]

Yes, and Facebook isn't known and constantly mocked for people portraying their life as amazing - but in actuality living in depression.... Nope... never heard that one....

The kid will commit suicide by about mid-twenties due to this bullshit. It's just attention whoring 101. One of the first things on the first video of that Facebook page... "Desmond's 2018 Predictions" followed by "The biggest movie this year will be about me!" speaks for itself.

To each their own, you guys can embrace this all you want - the end result will be depression because this isn't about expressing yourself, opening up, whatever other bullshit you want to call it. It's simply attention whoring from a child. Then the real world hits them on the face - because it's no longer about how popular you are in school. No one gives a shit when it comes to the real world, and thats when they lose it.

If you read the story:

Admitting that they were concerned about how other people might perceive their son, Desmond's parents consulted a therapist for advice on what to do.

The therapist advised them that the best course of action was to do nothing, and let Desmond develop naturally and explore his own tastes in clothing, toys, and activities.

Desmond's love of dressing up didn't falter, and his first big break in drag came in 2014 when he was featured in the music video for Jinkx Monsoon's The Bacon Shake, alongside his hero RuPaul and B-52 lead singer Fred Schneider

 

[Subyman]

The only reason this would have suicide "written all over it" is because of society's judgement. People can do as they please.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Yes, and Facebook isn't known and constantly mocked for people portraying their life as amazing - but in actuality living in depression.... Nope... never heard that one....

The kid will commit suicide by about mid-twenties due to this bullshit. It's just attention whoring 101. One of the first things on the first video of that Facebook page... "Desmond's 2018 Predictions" followed by "The biggest movie this year will be about me!" speaks for itself.

To each their own, you guys can embrace this all you want - the end result will be depression because this isn't about expressing yourself, opening up, whatever other bullshit you want to call it. It's simply attention whoring from a child. Then the real world hits them on the face - because it's no longer about how popular you are in school. No one gives a shit when it comes to the real world, and thats when they lose it.

Yeah this bullshit right here. This is where the real problems come from.

 

[Smoblikat]

I came into this thread with the knowledge that there are only 2 reasonable options for what a "drag club" would be. I had hopes (slim, but still hopes) that it was about a bunch of kids that are into cars and starting some sort of local racing scene, unfortunately its about some little boy thats dressing like a girl

I do suppose its significantly less dangerous than a 10 year old doing 150+ in the quarter mile.......its just not as cool

 

[Homerboy]

Yes, and Facebook isn't known and constantly mocked for people portraying their life as amazing - but in actuality living in depression.... Nope... never heard that one....

The kid will commit suicide by about mid-twenties due to this bullshit. It's just attention whoring 101. One of the first things on the first video of that Facebook page... "Desmond's 2018 Predictions" followed by "The biggest movie this year will be about me!" speaks for itself.

To each their own, you guys can embrace this all you want - the end result will be depression because this isn't about expressing yourself, opening up, whatever other bullshit you want to call it. It's simply attention whoring from a child. Then the real world hits them on the face - because it's no longer about how popular you are in school. No one gives a shit when it comes to the real world, and thats when they lose it.

You are so fucking ignorant, you really just need to STFU.

 

[justoh]

That somemind guy and his kind are basically terrorists. Society can't allow this or they'll kill themselves! (and btw we'll be the ones inducing their suicides, because our stupid and sadistic god made us stupid and sadistic). I don't want this to be mistaken for racism, but that sounds like blackmail to me. The kid's doing a great job already, I'd say, bringing attention to the real problem: this taboo morality we get from religion. Just say no.

 

[dank69]

We should probably throw the parents in prison and the kids in foster homes so they don't suicide themselves.

 

[bradly1101]

Ah yes, the old debauchery-moral-decay-leads-to-the-fall-of-civilization argument being revisited?

Where are those starched in the whitey-tightys fundamentalist Pence admirers when you need them?

The intolerance is the only decay causing problem, trust me I know (not a cross dresser, but a puff who grew up in a time of much violence and ridicule toward pillow-biters). Letting people be is strangely such a threat to some. It's not their yard, but they'll throw lawn darts over the fence just the same.

Normalizing something isn't a threat unless there are inclinations...

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

That somemind guy and his kind are basically terrorists. Society can't allow this or they'll kill themselves! (and btw we'll be the ones inducing their suicides, because our stupid and sadistic god made us stupid and sadistic). I don't want this to be mistaken for racism, but that sounds like blackmail to me. The kid's doing a great job already, I'd say, bringing attention to the real problem: this taboo morality we get from religion. Just say no.

I never said not to allow this. By all means, if you want to screw up your kid's life go for it. I'm very much libertarian. I'm also atheist.

This isn't about whats right/wrong from a religious perspective. It's simply about mental disorders and instead trying to embrace them rather than address them. But again, in the end I don't care. It's not my kid that will be depressed and contemplating suicide.

 

[zinfamous]

This is no stranger than those ridiculous beauty pageants...at any age, really, but particularly when the kids are subjected to it. Yeah, I think the parents are strange here but it doesn't seem like they are forcing the kid down a path, only encouraging what he seems to want to do, which is at least better than those beauty pageant psycho parents.

Do I care? No, not really. People are weird. Welcome to earth.