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Launceston Library is Not Suitable for Children. · The Slippery Slope

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  Type felony. Thank you for listening to the
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  slippery slope. So last week there was a big
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  hoo-ha in Launceston, which is, if you're not from Australia,
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  Its in the state of Tasmania, the little island down the
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  bottom of Australia. The small small City suppose is
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  classified as a city and has pretty small in Tasmania and
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  Right now we are in the middle of the World, Pride celebrations
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  think. And then next weekend this
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  coming weekend it'll be the Sydney gay and lesbian Mardi
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  Gras. I think that ends off the
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  celebrations. Okay, of this, the pride, the
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  pride pride celebrations. Anyway.
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  So Launceston has had a had a drag queen.
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  The show at the library and it's billed for children which I
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  think is really what the the issue has been.
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  And so there was a bit of a little bit of a protest.
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  People just standing outside saying hey you know this should
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  this isn't good for children. I'm going to read through this
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  article here. It's from the ABC so it says
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  Christian Lobby. Deputy Premier pushed back over?
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  Now I don't particularly Want to pronounce this name of the drag
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  queen. I'm going to pronounce it pass a
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  Poppins. So yeah.
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  It's built pu double is a, why pass a pop-ins drag Story Time
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  Event at Launceston Library. So, this is that tasmanians,
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  education Ministries resisting calls to cancel a book, reading
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  by a drag queen at a state-run library.
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  Even as the state's, Deputy Premier declared, he wouldn't be
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  taking my children. That's what he said.
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  So the Launceston library is hosting drag storytime next
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  Wednesday, in celebration of Taz, pride, and World Pride
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  2023. So the events aimed at to 25
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  year olds is free and has already sold out So you look
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  this event is aimed at to 25 year olds, it's been promoted as
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  a chance for toddlers, to frock up, dress up and throw on a
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  tiara wall. Tasmanian drag performer pass a
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  Poppins takes us on adventures in fraca dial and whittany and
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  Brittany chicken. Dippers at a media conference on
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  Monday. Deputy Premier.
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  Michael Ferguson was asked if he supported the library hosting
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  the event. Says, I think a lot of people
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  would Express concern and it's important that parental Choice,
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  be the determining Factor here, but I wouldn't be taking my
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  children. The conservative liberal said,
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  drag story, time events have been held at libraries across
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  Australia but this is the first time Launceston has hosted one.
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  All libraries across Tasmania a run and funded by the Tasmanian
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  government. In a post on the Australian
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  Christian Lobby. Facebook page, Tasmanian
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  director. Christopher.
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  Brahe I said, drag shows are not what Tasmanian parents expect
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  their government to promote as toddlers.
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  Entertainments a brief perusal of Poppins website reveals the
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  sexualized nature of this. Drag queens.
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  Adult entertainment repertoire which I'll go to agree with the,
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  you know, the main are you sure? I have with all of this stuff
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  right here? Is that these you know, there
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  was always a Entertainment. You know you I don't know what
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  don't even have been to one but you would go I Tsum to watch
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  someone dress up in ridiculous kind of outfits and put on a
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  dance, show miming to music and it just a bit and you know, some
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  kind of Cabaret and there's a bit of fun.
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  I suppose making stupid jokes whatever, whatever.
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  But it was adults adults did this, this is targeted towards
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  children. And you got to ask yourself,
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  what kind of parents think that this is okay to go to anyway.
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  So the I'll go further down. Now, the Launceston Library,
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  would not comment on the debate, but had previously acknowledged
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  on social media that the event may not appeal to everyone drag
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  story. Times are held in libraries
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  around Australia and the world to promote diversity.
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  I've got to ask. Why is it that you need a man
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  dressed? As a, he's not even dressed as a
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  woman but dressed in just absolutely ridiculous costumes.
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  I'm very sexualized costumes pretending to be a woman.
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  Why is that diversity? How is that diverse?
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  Isn't you need people with diverse thinking diverse
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  intelligence diverse, you know, ways of looking at things to be
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  able to help overcome problems and issues.
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  Not someone You what your sexual desires doesn't show diversity?
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  You can one would May argue? It shows depravity anyway, so it
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  says, goes on to say, if you before other ways of expressing
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  diversity to your children, this event will be fun.
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  Friendly and inclusive but it may not be for you Taz Pride,
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  spokesperson Vincent bound said he was unfortunately not
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  surprised by the calls for the events to be cancelled.
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  And so listen and this is this is the main issue, the it's
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  always been. It's always been this warning,
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  people standing, I'm saying, you know, eventually this is going
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  to come for the children for your children and we are seeing
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  more and more that that's exactly what's happening now.
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  It's not just, it's not enough just to have the adults and the
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  very young adults and late, Eight teenagers.
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  They've got to go for the two and five year olds to try.
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  And to try and impression, give an impression on their young
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  minds to get them going to this this area of diversity.
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  Which I think they've got the wrong view of a diversity
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  anyway, so I want to have a look.
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  I don't really want to have a look but I don't normally look
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  at this stuff. This is a anyway, we're going to
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  have a look at the the page of Poppins so Poppins page.
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  Now, show you the page because this is, I think this shows the
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  argument that people are saying it's very sexualized.
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  This is adult entertainment. It's very sexualized.
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  Why is this kind of sexualized? Entertainment being used to
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  entertain or educate children? It is.
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  It's not right? It's wrong.
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  I don't think it should be happening, but just, I don't
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  know. Anyway, he shall show you what
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  I'm talking about, you tell me what you think.
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  So, here it is, the amine, check out the outfit that this this
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  pop-ins is wearing here on the top, its Anyway, so tassie's
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  Premier drag artist. Okay, you'll go to Queen four
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  premium. Drag Poppins is the Tasmanian
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  Queen with two heads and one of them is tucked away.
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  Now, this is what this is. What Poppins has these little
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  headline here, underneath the headline?
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  And this is being billed as Children's Entertainment to
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  educate them in diversity. This is the kind of trope.
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  That so-called Educators want to want to use to educate to
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  entertain two-year-olds to 25 year.
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  Old pop-ins is known for entertaining audiences big and
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  small with her razor-sharp wit H and M, a modified costumes and
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  subpar dance moves. This drag Dynamo has a passion
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  for supporting the lgbtq blah blah blah community and Tazz
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  Creating and hosting events across the state and making her
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  irritable bowel disease. Everyone's business if you're
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  looking for something unique, quirky and fun for your next
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  event, grab this Queen by the and then has the name p.
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  U SS. A, why?
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  Okay, so we'll scroll down and have a look at sure.
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  It'll have some costumes in here.
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  Meager the pics. These are the kinds of costumes
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  that this so-called well. Now, it's a children's
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  entertainer, isn't they? The kinds of costumes that That
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  he/she whatever they want to be called.
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  We look at this, is this really the kind of outfits that we
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  should be? For a two-year-old
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  five-year-old. They're very, I mean, come on,
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  imagine if he rocked up in this kind of outfit, it's a very very
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  sexualized, you know, the nun's outfit I don't know.
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  I just anyway. So that's the kind of thing.
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  It's very sexualized. It's all I'm trying to say.
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  And yet, you know, the, the Launceston library and making
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  excuses, I've got to know what you think.
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  Okay. I you probably know where I
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  stand on this is I think this is wrong completely wrong.
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  This is not the kind of thing that we should be building as
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  entertainment for children. I'd have to question what kind
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  of person you are? If you anyway, if you're an
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  adult, you know, you make your own decisions, but two year olds
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  25 year olds and then their parents taking them to this,
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  kind of entertainment. And then They said, well, this
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  is to help educate children on diversity.
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  My thoughts are that it is actually sexual depravity.
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  It is entertainment. The highly sexualized nature.
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  It doesn't really show diversity.
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  It just shows a man dressed up as a female in highly,
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  sexualized outfits, and then prancing around trying to be
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  funny and it's time people and this is being billed as
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  diversity training for children. I don't think it's right.
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  I think it's quite pathetic. I think Launceston Library
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  should be ashamed of themselves, but they probably wouldn't be
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  because it's it's Pride week pride month, whatever the heck
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  it is. And right now I thought we have
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  pride month in June, don't we now have got Pride whatever
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  we're celebrating the LGB thing. But it's all about the pride
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  pride of man. Anyway, that's just my opinion.
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  Let me know what you think. Is this really good
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  entertainment for children, 2 to 5 years old?
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  Really Because depraved that's just my opinion.
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  Let me know what you think. Thank you for listening to the
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  slippery slope. Because depraved that's just my
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  opinion. Let me know what you think.
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  Thank you for listening to the slippery slope.