This is absolutely on brand. Can’t trust these companies to do what’s right.
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Leave it to Christians to feel victimized and “disrespected” when other people celebrate their own lifestyles. Religious fruitcakes and snowflakes.
Each year, Google sponsors a series of Pride events in San Francisco and other locations for employees and the public. This year, the closing event was a “Pride and Drag Show” featuring popular performer “Peaches Christ,” who was scheduled to perform Tuesday at LGBTQ+ bar Beaux in San Francisco to “wrap up this amazing month,” according to a now-removed internal description of the event viewed by CNBC.
So, during Pride, Google sponsors events held at various locations. And people are upset because someone with a weiner is wearing a dress and a fabulous wig while singing showtunes?
It’s at a gay bar, but it’s also an official employee event, which is weird. I wonder what the expectations are for employees to attend official events. For me, whether it’s a drag show or bowling, I don’t attend most after-hours work events.
Google is still sponsoring the event, it’s just not an employee event anymore. That’s probably how it should have been planned from the beginning.
That said, thin-skinned Christians can not attend if it’s an optional event. The bible is silent about drag shows.
Haven’t the poor christians suffered enough??? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I have a conspiracy theory on potential Google employees meddling with the algorithm on YouTube to push the far-right into mainstream yet again. It seems like there’s some basis for it.
Can someone fill me in on wtf is going on with drag in the US?
I’m from the UK, drag is like our longest running joke, and families go to pantomimes all the time. Recently theres been a more direct association with the LGBT community in the popular understanding of it. I’d say that most people’s view on drag here is:
- not necessarily an LGBT thing, though it very often is
- kinda traditional
- can be funny, or just a fun performance
- pretty lighthearted
- not expected to be overtly sexual by default, depends on context
Some of the stuff I see out of the US is bizzare. I realise that the weirder stuff is always going to be amplified in the news, and people are not necessarily trying to show the full context in photos. But I’ve seen shit like
- rightoids getting so worked up that the pickets outside resemble the Gaza Strip or, as I’m reliabily told, the average us abortion clinic
- performances in weird places like libraries
- people watching a clearly sexual show in dive bars with their kids in tow that look like they’re starting at a painting in a gallery pondering the meaning of nothingness and looking way out of place
Like, wtf? Drag isn’t the problem, it’s the weird-ass way that people seem to be responding to it. Go to a show if you think you might enjoy it, read up on the performance or use context ques to understand what kind of drag performance it’s going to be. Certainly don’t go for political reasons and ruin the fun for performers who are just trying to have a good time. But equally, don’t plan shows that are meant to provoke a reaction for political reasons, for the same reason.
And why the right wingers care so much if fucking beyond me. Imagine having enough free time to consider that important enough to spend your precious free time protesting it rather than doing literally anything else.
Just chill, it’s a fucking stage show. It’s like the whole toilet thing again, just hysterics over something inconcequential. I’m trans and fabulous as fuck and don’t seem to consider these issues nearly as important than a middle-aged cishet blue collar dude from Texas who may never have met a single trans person or encountered anything like this outside of the Internet.
Is only fun show, why you heff to be mad?
Republicans in the U.S. have decided that drag shows are corrupting the children. But they can’t stop with just “they’re corrupting the children” now. They’re going after drag as a whole. Because it’s never just been about drag, it’s been about oppressing LGBT+ people. And when they’ve gotten their way and made them fully second-class citizens, if citizens at all, they’ll go after the next group. Maybe it will be Jews. Maybe it will be black people. Maybe it will be something else. But there always has to be a corrupting “them” for Republicans to fight against.
And why the right wingers care so much if fucking beyond me.
It’s modern blood libel. They don’t care about drag; they care about libeling their political enemies as pedophiles.
Would be at least somewhat believable if they were doing something about pedophiles and predators in their own ranks. From over here the Repubs look like a bunch of black people in hoods or something similar ironic.
Yeah, especially after their top man, aka the annoying orange, talked about dating his OWN DAUGHTER if she would not be his daughter (there were other similar quotes).
Also, hello! I’m another Reddit user trying to create the internet I wanted back in the 90’s. No time like the present!
Dude, it’ll be totally radical this time around! No psych!
Welcome to the 90’s!
How is this a thing at work?
Why not just not waste money on bullshit and pay people better/work them less hours?
It’s not at work - it’s at a gay bar
Wow, I didn’t know Google was planning to start a war (start a nuclear war)
Do you think it has a cover?
Now tell me do ya, do ya have any money?
Well it is their motto right? ‘Do No Good’.
I really, really hate that 98% of our voting population formulates their worldview solely based on the nightly news broadcast that they watch. We’d be in such better shape of we could get either flavor of partisan to care half as much about their own economic power as they do about social issues, and more economic power would translate to more social power.
where do you live that 98% of people watch the nightly news
The south
Can’t trust these companies
That’s all that needs to be said
Many people such as women and trans women find drag to be offensive. Why bring it into the work place?
And many many more think you’re a bigot.
“This year, the closing event was a “Pride and Drag Show” featuring popular performer “Peaches Christ,” who was scheduled to perform Tuesday at LGBTQ+ bar Beaux in San Francisco”
It isn’t and never was planned to be at the workplace.
Counter point: Wouldn’t it be hilarious if your job did a drag show and it had your boss twerking while half naked in drag?
I didn’t know Google owned a gay bar in San Francisco.
Oh wait, they don’t. You just didn’t read the article.
Google was sponsoring the performance at a bar. This was not “in the workplace”.
We had drag bingo at my work and it was my favorite work event by far. They made my coworkers do a dance battle lmao
I find you offensive. Why did you comment here?
It’s a public forum, hence I post.
Why can’t we have pornstars “performance” at work instead of this shit is the real question. Why would anyone care what drag queens, Queers or gay people do anyways, and why should it be done in public eye at all?
You think drag shows and porn “performances” are comparable?
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Okay, replace “porn performances” with strippers. You don’t bring your whole company to a strip club. Or mandate that people go to such an event under threat/duress of being fired.
The sad part is, you know that this was the comparison… but instead you have to be obtuse about this and argue against it as if going to ANY sexually charged event is a norm in workplace cultures.
You think drag shows and strippers are comparable?
You clearly have no idea what actually goes on in a drag show and rather than accepting your opinion is misinformed your projecting your ignorance on other people
Right. If you can’t actually argue substance… but instead can only vaguely state “your ignorant”… Then I have a sad reality for you. You’re likely the one that’s wrong here.
You have no idea what my personal experiences were like. Nor if I’ve ever been to one or not.
What it appears is that you’ve never been to strip club before. Not ever girl shows everything. The performances can indeed be an exact 1:1 copy. And in both cases it’s still not proper for a business environment.
But you keep comparing drag shows and strip clubs. You’re holding a giant neon sign that says “I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT” I’ve personally been to both and to think for a second that they’re similar atmosphere is just factually wrong.
I’ve personally been to both and to think for a second that they’re similar atmosphere is just factually wrong.
No… that would be an opinion… You’re basing it on your own experiences. Not the facts of how all strip clubs or all drag shows operate. You know… Not “factually” at all.
Once again. I’ve literally seen the a similar performance in both situations. So now here we are. I say one thing. You say another. That’s why anecdotes are terrible. The difference here is I’m not claiming you’re factually incorrect, incorrectly.
Edit: And still you don’t address the fact that either case is not fit for a business meeting/outing.
Yeah, it’s totally right! I also opposed my company going horseback riding because its a 1:1 copie of what happen in those movies where people get railed by horses! And opposed a group outing to a church cuz it’s like in BDSM movies! (You have no idea what happen in drag events)
I’ve been to a strip club and I’ve been to drag shows. They hold similar “performance.”
Your strip clubs don’t show boobs or genitals and focus on lip-syncing music and costumes? That’s a weird strip club.
Either you went to a highly atypical drag show or a strip club without stripping. I think having a work-sponsored drag show is inappropriate and bit cringe, but it’s not more risqué than cabaret.
Cabaret is blatantly inappropriate for work
Drag shows =/= cabaret.
I have been to multiple drag shows and they were quite explicit. I would say they were slightly less explicit than a burlesque show, The costumes and performances were somewhat akin to a strip show, but without the nudity. One thing that stands out to me was a trans woman in very small underwear who obviously hadn’t had bottom surgery doing the sitting splits, there was definitely a wardrobe malfunction.
None of this really offended me, but I do wonder if the pushback from the right has to do with people seeing this type of drag show and not having anything else to compare it to.
I’m personally more disgusted by seeing straight people do anything in public. Wish they would all just stay home
I’m trans myself and have no problem with people doing drag performances in public, but bringing such a contentious issue into the workplace seems misguided at best.
I’m very religious despite being trans, but I’m not going to advocate for relation to be brought into my workplace either. I want to work.
These are the same people that would view your very existence as a “contentious issue”. They don’t deserve an inch, on this or any other issue.
I know right. Imagine being given “time off,” but that time off is actually watching world cup. To me that would bore me to death. All this forced engagement and fake positivity is annoying.
I’m pretty sure these employees weren’t being forced to attend. So it would be more like you getting pissed off because some of your fellow employees decided to organize a get together at a bar to watch the World Cup. And, because you don’t like soccer, you decide nobody should be able to attend.
Why would anyone care what drag queens, Queers or gay people do anyways, and why should it be done in public eye at all?
Do you not get the spectacular irony of saying this while you yourself are complaining about drag queens?
Obviously you care, so why don’t you tell us why yourself?
None of this was happening at work, but if you keep pretending that you don’t know that, you can probably get some other ignorant people pissed off about it too
Can’t trust these companies to do what’s right.
This has to be drilled into the collective consciousness as much as possible. There is no such thing as an ethical corporation, or an ethical company that is for-profit – they simply cannot be ethical, they are amoral by design. If Target or Walmart or Netflix do something that is seen as positive, the only reason is a profit motive, not because they are moving towards being ‘good’.
…featuring popular performer “Peaches Christ…”
There is is a difference between being edgy and…whatever that name is an attempt to project. I love people. All people. Couldn’t give a rat’s ass if you want to cross dress or sleep with your own gender. So, how about we drop the attempts to make a name for ourselves -with the intention of getting under people’s skin. Google did the right thing here, IMHO.
The world’s most powerful and largest religion has such fragile defendants.
Which is funny because so many of them love to defend comedy shitting on others and claiming anything goes in comedy. Like my step-dad loves joked about other religions, but got angry when I was younger and we rented Dogma. Absolutely refused to watch it.
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Taking offense because a company decided to not host a drag show is a bigger sign of fragility.
If we ignore the sequence of events and our countries history they would more or less be equal.
But since we can look at the sequence of events and our countries history, no.
I’m not sure how many Drag Queens you’ve seen perform but having an attitude is part of the gig.
If you find the name Peaches Christ edgy or provocative, that’s a you problem. A name like that harms no one.
Let’s not pretend that that name wasn’t chosen to be antagonistic.
You’re just being disingenuous otherwise
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Christians: attempt to genocide LGBT+ people
Christians: “how dare you satirize us”
Come on dude
with the intention of getting under people’s skin
Christians get to go around tell everyone that some people are abominations, pedo-groomers and are going to hell yet they get pissy when you call them on their shit or make the tiniest joke. Fuck that. I wish her name was Reach-Around Christ. More atrocities have been committed in the name of religion than ANYTHING in the history of man.
If you are getting this upset and offended by “Peaches Christ…” By those words. By a silly pseudonym of a performer… Maybe it’s time to reevaluate your life, and what you consider important.
Are you also offended by the title “Jesus Christ Superstar”?
how dare you imply christ the lord our savior is a superstar this is sacrilege
God damn, you are so sensitive.
How much would you bet this is also someone who unironically calls people snowflakes?
I thought we had freedom of speech. Or does that only apply to Christians? Hmmmm
“Couldn’t give a rat’s ass if you want to cross dress or sleep with your own gender”
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So let me expand on this. I, myself, am not ‘sensitive’. However, I am keenly aware that the weaker in faith may be.
There exists (on both sides) a host of those who have no ability to lead with love - and resort to ruling with the rod.
Get some perspective. The people who do horrific things in the name of (insert god’s name here) are just the proverbial ‘wolves in sheep’s clothing’. Attack the awful person(s) - not the faith that they attempt to shame.
Giving people a taste of their own medicine is an aggressive approach. I was just suggesting that if you want dialogue - and not dumpster fire - be respectful to each other.
what does a drag show have to do with google?
