Libraries act
It’s real; I checked.
The screenshot is of a Facebook post, which is alive and kicking and hiding all comments that don’t say “How fabulous!!!!!!” The page is the “Official Facebook page for the public libraries in Canberra and the ACT Heritage Library.” Isn’t that nice? Public libraries in Canberra think it’s hilarious to teach children that women are fish. Public libraries in Canberra think it’s hilarious to teach children that “jokes” about women smelling like fish are totally awesome and riotously funny. Public libraries in Canberra think it’s hilarious to invite men dressed as insulting caricatures of women and calling themselves Phony Fish to read to the children. Start the hatred of women early!
I lived in Canberra for a (very) few months. As far as I’m concern the drags queens can have it.
Having got that off my chest, yes, “drag [anything] story time” should just go extinct and be studied as one of the weirder fossils of our age.
There must have been a first time for this bizarre notion. I suspect there’s material for a thesis or two on the matter. Why didn’t ‘Borscht Belt Comic Story Hour’ or ‘Stripper Story Hour’ catch on? Hell, why not ‘Black-face Minstrel Story Hour?’
I think they tried ‘Borscht Belt Comic Story Hour’ but Melvin Kaminsky quit to make movies.
Francis Boyle, I lived in Canberra for a little over five years (February 2008 to June 2013) and found it friendly, and with very good amenities, even if the architecture was pretty soulless on the whole. As someone who was forced by increasing ill health and disability to give up driving shortly after arriving, I really appreciated the massive network of off-road cycle paths and small parks for exercising our rescue dogs. What made it often intolerable for me was the climate, and that’s hardly the fault of Canberrans. At least they provided decent air conditioning in enough places for me to hide from the heat!
I would not have been thrilled by drag queens invading the nice cool libraries, especially ones with overtly misogynistic pseudonyms.
Heat. I’m from Queensland. I didn’t think they had heat in Canberra! (I left before it got too cold.)
I don’t blame Canberrans. After all they’re just refugees like I was but ones who never made it out of the camp. I never really stayed long enough to get to know them much. It’s just that I can’t abide (and thus abide in) in any city that’s physically soulless (as you so aptly describe it). And I need water. If not the sea at least a decent river.