When I was 8 I wanted a green mohawk. Didn't happen. Kids like attention, and this kid is getting it.

When I was 8 all I wanted to do was play GI Joe's and He-man. Thank god I'm not an 8 year old today or I might be looking at surgery. World gone mad.

Don't focus on the weird exceptions as if they are norms. MSM focuses on the fringe as if they are the new norm. Just as PC is phasing out, so will this attention grabbing.

I agree. In time all things return to the center.

MSM focuses on the fringe as if they are the new norm.

Thanks for this

When I was 8, I was burning my brother's GI Joe's and He-Man toys. We caught the garage on fire. We did a lot of crazy/fun shit unsupervised for hours. We had a whole patch of woods to build a dirt bike path. One dad built us a fort and left us alone! You had to come to our home and watch home videos/slides to see the damn family. The only children I saw on tv were on PBS kids programming.

Haha, awesome. Sounds a lot like how I grew up. Bikes and forts and bb guns. Hell in the summer if it was daylight i was never home. Too much fun stuff to do outside. I too had my share of, erm, fire escapades. Almost burned down the neighbor's house one time. Got the belt for that one even though, technically, it was my idiot friends fault I was a participant. Kids that sit inside all day on xbox are missing out on tons of fun and learning experiences!

I may be the idiot friend if you lived in Flagstaff, Az

Wouldn't that be quite the coincidence!? But no, I did not grow up in Flagstaff.

Ok cool haha my friends and I were smoking cigars and flicked an ash next to a gas can and it caught their trailer on fire haha good times

Lol. My friend and I broke into an abondoned building and found some matches. So we started a little fire with some dried weeds. It was starting to get a little big so I told my buddy 'kick dirt on it!'

He said 'through weeds on it!' And threw a giant armful of dried weeds on it. Phwoosh! Hillside on fire now burning towards a neighor house. Had to run home and tell my dad to call fire department. Got my ass whipped real good. Thanks John, you dummy lol.

And someone is preying in this kid's need for attention.

This is child abuse, through and through.

Child abuse.

sexual abuse of a child. get a rope.

A child feeling that they have a character inside them that they need to dress up as is different than pumping a kid full of hormones. The pageant stuff is creepy, but drag in general is a positive force from the past. The new ultraorthodox LGBTQPR is going to shame it out of existence in new next few years.

Drag queens are being shamed by transgenders into being politically correct. http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/03/02/rupaul-explains-the-difference-between-drag-queens-and-transgender-people/ .
Drag queens were even banned from a gay pride parade despite the fact that drag queens have been active in the gay rights movement since the beginning. The reason? Offensive to transgenders. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/drag-queens-banned-from-pride-event-because-they-may-offend-transgender-people-10403198.html .
Ultimately the ban was rescinded, but just add drag queens to the list of groups on the transgender shit-list: lesbians who aren't sexually attracted to transgender penises; transsexuals who have fully, medically transitioned; radical feminists who say you're not a woman just because you say so.

Naw, I'm in the scene and if anything, drag is going through a revival. The current "conflict" is the lack of representation for drag kings. The lesbians aren't getting their fair share of bookings. Hell, the women (lesbian, bi, trans) aren't getting their voices heard in general.

how to fuck up your life before it's even begun.

Wtf, train wreck in slow mo, wtf is wrong with these parents!!

That's just fucked!

The most disturbing part I found about this, was seeing the kid performing on a stage at what looked like a nightclub, striking sexual poses and dancing provocatively, in front of a crowd of older men. There's no way a child in that situation is not going to look like easy prey to a predator. Obviously the majority of men in that crowd were probably just laughing/found it amusing and that was that, but all it takes is one, and a parent that isn't really that concerned about leaving their child in the supervision of one of these people, who puts themselves eagerly forward as a helping hand, for this child's life to be irrevocably scarred. It's like hte pedo thing in Hollywood, parents get all excited by the attention their child is getting, the kid likes it too, and before you know it they're regularly left on their own with an 'agent' or 'publicist' who 'specialises in children' and is asking them if they've ever seen a grown man's penis before, or want a demonstration of what a blow job is. I mean, it seems that particularly in this situation the child is at risk just because they are performing directly in front of an audience, at night clubs etc and they are specifically being paraded as a sexual type being. If you get rampant pedophilia in Hollywood when kids are just exposed to people working in the industry, imagine what this kid doing this in front of hundreds/thousands of people could be exposed to.

As for the dressing up in itself, that's not really an issue, kids like to dress up. If it's what the kid himself chose to do and wanted to do that's one thing, but certainly it's irresponsible of the parents to 'put him out there' like that. Why not let him dress up etc at home, why take him to night clubs etc?

You know why.

Maybe his parents are already prostituting him.

Well, look at the mother....

lol my first thought too

Nothing wrong with a child (male/female) dressing up like their parents (even if of the opposite sex).

Having adults dress up their child the opposite sex and pushing sexual behavior is child abuse

Man, the mother is a train wreck. Kids don't have the maturity to make decisions about gender and sexuality that would affect their entire life and I'm sure this is what his mother approves of and encourages. That poor bastard.

I can vouch that being a boy raised by a single mother fucking sucks.

"Currently available research literature — including four studies published in the last nine years — suggests that 61% to 88% of gender dysphoric children will desist and grow up to be gay adults. (Or, in my case, a straight adult). They won’t continue to identify as the opposite sex in adulthood. In one study of 139 gender dysphoric boys, 122 (88%) of the boys desisted." -Debra W. Soh, L.A. Times, 2/10/17 http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-soh-trans-feminism-anti-science-20170210-story.html

before you start bashing me for being homophobic

Why even say that? Fuck people if that's the first thing they do.

Stand up for yourself damnit

Ignore him, he will go away.

Don't look at the daily mail.

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Drag has nothing to do with sexual preference or identity, it's an art form. Generally, it's gay men or women, who prefer their own gender role.

My disgust with this is ANY fuckin parent who puts their child into a national media spotlight, for anything less than an educational or artistic merit award, like a science fair, spelling bee, piano concert.

Teaching kids to be obsessed with fame is disgusting, including child actors, Instagram modelling, these ridiculous "toddler bitch" videos. Hell, I'm disgusted w one of my facebook friends with how her 7 year old is described, pictured and catered to on her mother's profile. (I also ripped into a close friend for posting public photos of her 2 year old topless, often with location tags of where they were swimming!)

Your kid playing dressup and dancing in the living room is quaint. Your kid on a modeling shoot and being interviewed is not. This kid will be on drugs or self harming by 13. Fuck, kids can't even go to the bus stop for school without helicopter parenting anymore.

You ripped into a close friend for letting their 2 year old swim topless ffs it’s people like you that make people keep their kids inside. By the way I hope your friend told you to f yourself, close friend lol

Right.

A little kid is a little kid. We've got to be careful not to swing so far in the other direction we end up going all Handmaid's Tale or something. There is nothing even remotely sexual about a little kid walking around in their diaper or something.

I ripped into my BEST friend for posting pictures of a topless toddler, online, with the location showing, yes. We live in an area where people routinely attempt to abduct children and teens. And yes, we're still friends.

It's a sure fire sign of child abuse. 70% of children grow out of gender dysmorphia so in much the same way they can't choose who to marry or what tattoo they fancy getting at a young age, they should be defined and rail-roaded down one path at such an early age.

Eight-year olds know gender. Boys get blue toys, girls get pink.

Eight-year olds don't know sexuality. So long as this is a phase for attention and there is no pressure on the nascent sexuality then... not my bag o'tea but no harm no foul.

10-year olds on the school yard will end this phase fairly quickly.

There are bullies, and there is peer pressure. He doesn't need his face punched in, he just needs a counter-force to the news putting in a positive light. The school-yard will sing a different song than the TV (and whatever parenting is happening).

Fwiw I live(d) in the heart of tranny-land. Now just outside that. I used to see dozens of trannies a weekend and partied with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgences. Heck, I used to see trannies on a Wed at 7:30 am.

But I don't wanna see an 8-yr old adopting that persona.

https://www.thesisters.org/

Eight year olds who are having sex with adults sure do know what it is. I would not assume this child is not sexually active. I would be highly suspicious about it.

Fair point, sexuality can be thrust upon kids.

My opinion doesnt matter. I disagree but again it doesn't make a damn difference.

I was a tom boy pretty much my whole childhood and I'll admit I did have a thought or two about how I'd rather be a boy than a girl, but that just made me confused.

I think it's fine to let your kid express themselves and figure out who they want to be, but bringing them into an adult setting with sexual themes isn't appropriate. I've seen a few clips of this child with their parents at drag shows, to me it looks like that kid is being fed how to act and what to say. I feel like they are putting their child in danger by doing this.

My sister was that way. She actually wanted to be a boy, and insisted on changing her name and living as a boy for a few years. My parents were just like "Okay, whatever" so she cut her hair and bought boy stuff and went by a boy name.

Then one day she wanted to be a girl again, and she became really feminine and she's a wife and mom now.

It wasn't a big deal, but she's so thankful it was the 80's and she had no idea about transgenderism and my parents didn't push her to transition or something, because she believes that would've really screwed her up.

One point on your approach: Drag has little to do with gender identification. Dressing up in drag is something that people do for fun. Drag queens aren't transgendered, they're just playing dress up. If you took your argument to a more diverse audience than this sub you would get slammed for not understanding what drag is.

Drag is basically gender clowning. It's fun and it doesn't need to be sexual... This kid is having fun dressing up and playing a character. How terrible! ??

What is the wrong idea?

It's mental illness and the parents are enabling him

Kid is fucking 8 years old, should not be thinking of shit like this let alone having an alter ego drag queen bullshit.

This stinks of attention seeking at the very lowest point one can imagine. What a world we live in.

I think it's gross and fucked up, and if this shit continues to be normalized imagine what will be happening in a few years or 10 years. Kids should not be focusing their lives on sex/gender really AT ALL until they are learning about sex ed in school.

It's so gross how much sexualization we push on our kids. We already live in a sex filled society in media/ads so limiting the exposure and focus on that at a young age is even more important. I love the argument that we suppress sexuality in this country, compared to what? We are pretty fucking sexually liberal compared to the rest of the world.

Probably compared to Japan.

Total losee

I can't even read this

There are bullies, and there is peer pressure. He doesn't need his face punched in, he just needs a counter-force to the news putting in a positive light. The school-yard will sing a different song than the TV (and whatever parenting is happening).

Fwiw I live(d) in the heart of tranny-land. Now just outside that. I used to see dozens of trannies a weekend and partied with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgences. Heck, I used to see trannies on a Wed at 7:30 am.

But I don't wanna see an 8-yr old adopting that persona.

https://www.thesisters.org/

What is the wrong idea?