The Ben Shapiro Show - Drag Queens Read Stories To Children - The Ben Shapiro Radio Show
Aired: 2019-10-31
Duration: 02:16


=== Sexualized Drag at Libraries (02:16) ===

[00:00:00]  It is pretty amazing.
[00:00:01]  There is this whole controversy.
[00:00:02]  We talked about it yesterday on the show in Canada over a feminist named Megan Murphy.
[00:00:05]  She gave a speech at a Toronto library in which she maintained that men are men and women are women.
[00:00:10]  I know.
[00:00:10]  Huge, huge news.
[00:00:12]  Hundreds of protesters showed up.
[00:00:13]  The mayor of Toronto condemned the library for allowing her to speak.
[00:00:17]  So, many on the left would like libraries not to sponsor speeches by feminists who say that men should not be able to enter women's restrooms or women's locker rooms.
[00:00:25]  But, libraries are praised for holding drag queen story hour even if things go wildly wrong.
[00:00:31]  There's a blogger named Ann Taylor, she's writing at Caffeinated Thoughts.
[00:00:33]  She attended an October 17th event at Hennepin County Country Library and shared photos online of a drag queen's exposed crotch.
[00:00:42]  According to Taylor, a drag queen showed up to read to small preschool children, wearing a sleeveless cut-off t-shirt resembling SpongeBob SquarePants with midriff exposed, a pink miniskirt, rainbow ankle socks, a black spiked heel that went above six inches.
[00:00:55]  The wig he wore was mermaid style, crimping in the color of bright orange and makeup that was far too much under the neon lights.
[00:01:00]  The drag queen strode in suggestively past the children, sitting down in a chair before several preschool-aged girls with his legs spread wide, exposing his nylon-covered crotch in front of children sitting at eye level.
[00:01:10]  We noticed he did this often while reading nervously before the children.
[00:01:14]  There were some 20-plus adults in attendance.
[00:01:16]  Some of the fathers who were there, she said, quickly left after they saw the performer themselves.
[00:01:20]  There were about 22 children ranging in age from infants and toddlers into elementary school.
[00:01:24]  So, just to make clear, what the left would like, no speeches at libraries about men being men and women being women.
[00:01:31]  No raising your child to be a boy if he at any point expresses that he believes he's a girl.
[00:01:37]  Remove the child from the home.
[00:01:38]  And also, very good to have events at libraries with sexualized drag queens parading themselves in front of small children who don't understand what the hell is going on.
[00:01:49]  Does this seem kind of perverse to you?
[00:01:51]  Maybe because it's pretty perverse.
[00:01:52]  Maybe because it's exploitation of children.
[00:01:55]  This is not about the protection of the innocence of children or making children open-minded.
[00:01:59]  When you are utilizing sexualized imagery in order to twist children to a political point of view and use them as props, that is not to the benefit of children.
[00:02:08]  By the way, the Hennepin County Library told The Blaze that the program is relatively new and is unfortunately making mistakes.
[00:02:15]  Who could have foreseen?