Hollywood director defends child drag shows during rambling Oscars victory speech



A Hollywood director defended children dressing up at drag shows during his rambling victory speech at the Oscars awards show Sunday.

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" co-director Daniel Scheinert accepted the award for Best Director and then launched into an admonition against recent bills passed against drag shows that include children in the audience.

“We want to dedicate this to the mommies, all the mommies of the world. To our moms. Specifically to my mom and dad," said Scheinert with his co-director Daniel Kwan beside him.

"Ken and Becky, thank you for not squashing my creativity when I was making really disturbing horror films or really perverted comedy films, or dressing in drag as a kid, which is a threat to nobody,” he added.

The salute to children in drag received a rousing applause from the elite celebrity crowd.

Many on the right have called for local governments to ban children from attending drag shows on the basis that they will be inappropriately exposed to sexual themes. Defenders of "family friendly" drag shows claim that children learn to accept themselves and their sexual identities by attending drag shows.

The critically acclaimed film Scheinert directed garnered various other award victories at the Oscars, including Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, who used her speech to tout racial representation in Hollywood.

"For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities. This is proof that dreams do come true," the 60-year-old actress said.

She also went on to take a veiled jab at CNN's Don Lemon for his comments mocking Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley as being "past her prime."

Here's the video of Scheinert's bizarre speech:

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert Accept the Oscar for Directing www.youtube.com

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Joe Rogan dismantles leftist narrative on drag shows with children: 'Why is this happening and why was this never happening before?'



Joe Rogan dismantled many of the talking points surrounding the movement to include children at drag shows during his incredibly popular podcast show.

Rogan tackled the controversial issue during the show with comedian and columnist Bridget Phetasy.

"I've seen this argument that where people are saying, like you know, I would want my, you know, child grow up and know that you can express yourself in any way possible? Okay, well how would you feel about family friendly strip shows where you have biological women that are sticking their ass out and put a, put a dollar in her g-string Billy," said Rogan.

"You know what, like you would be weirded out by that? Right? Well it's not much different because it's sexualized, like a drag queen show in a lot of ways is sexualized. And so you're sexualizing this idea of these men, many of them have autogynophilia, they get a sexual kink out of dressing up as women, and then they're doing that in front of children," he added.

"It's one thing to say, hey, they should be able to do whatever they want, people love drag queen shows, you should definitely be able to do that if you're a grown man," Rogan added. "But it's another thing to say, let's take children to see this and encourage this."

"Yeah," Phetasy responded.

"And also encourage these children to participate and to go and give them money and you know, I've seen these drag queen shows where there's a woman, a trans woman, or a drag, I don't know how they identify, but with a g-string and high heels with stars covering their nipples, and they have giant fake t***, and they're holding hands with this little child," Rogan continued.

"And everyone's cheering and they're walking the little child around and showing them how to twerk and this is f***ing wild!" he said. "Because it's only sexual. So you're sexualizing this in front of these children, which is very weird."

Phetasy made the distinction between drag shows with children and drag queen story hour, something people on the right have also protested.

Rogan went on to cite the popular Libs of TikTok account that documents some of the more egregious instances where people on the left publish their extremist beliefs and activities about gender and sexual identity.

"And the thing is, it's not one, it's not just one instance where some wacky community thought it was cool to do this," Rogan said.

"It's like, why is this happening and why was this never happening before?" he concluded rhetorically.

Here's the video of Rogan's comments:

\u201c\u201cThey get a sexual kink out of dressing up as women [and perform] in front of children\u201d.\n\nJoe Rogan and @BridgetPhetasy discuss the Woke trend of \u2018family friendly\u2019 drag shows for kids as seen on @libsoftiktok\u201d
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