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??? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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!
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.
Well it is their motto right? ‘Do No Good’.
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’.
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.
<3 Seeeee??? This is what I’m hear for. Haha. Thanks for such a lively debate! Carry on…
Ouch! I was just pleasantly surprised to see so many comments! This is my second post to the Lemmy-verse and after a day at work, I come home to this being a popular post. 😊
But I am also the one leaving the party at 9:45pm to go to bed. 😂 You all aren’t wrong there!
I don’t typically have much time during the week to spend time online, but I’m so happy to see this community building so quickly!
Also, screw you Google for listening to the nutty people in your organization and removing the support for a simple drag event.
There is a feeling of massive change on the horizon. This community might easily become my new home in the online world. Thanks to all of you!
You’re the poor sod who sighs and says “This is a really great conversation,” at like 9:45p, aren’t you.
“Welllll, it’s getting late, and I have to to get up early, soo, byee. Really great hanging out.”
Oh man this is totally me!
I bet you also save I love you within the first 6 months and then try to justify it as normal.
You’re right!
Well tough truths, no one cares that the greeks had like 5 translations of love and you meant it in the eros sense, and that means it wasn’t weird to say when I was inside you. … - … I think I have some issues to resolve. Excuse me.
Haha. Well, it was really nice catching up. Talk to you later!
Also I’m excited that you’re my first interaction on Lemmy… perhaps this is a sort of phileo between us.
…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.
Taking offense because a company decided to not host a drag show is a bigger sign of fragility.
If you find the name Peaches Christ edgy or provocative, that’s a you problem. A name like that harms no one.
A massive company not wanting to be part of a niche potentially controversial event also harms noone, but here we are rage-posting on social media and people in the comments harassing others for not agreeing with them…
Let’s not pretend that that name wasn’t chosen to be antagonistic.
You’re just being disingenuous otherwise
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’m not sure how many Drag Queens you’ve seen perform but having an attitude is part of the gig.
I thought we had freedom of speech. Or does that only apply to Christians? Hmmmm
Christians: attempt to genocide LGBT+ people
Christians: “how dare you satirize us”
Come on dude
Many people such as women and trans women find drag to be offensive. Why bring it into the work place?
“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.
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
And many many more think you’re a bigot.
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?
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.
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 find you offensive. Why did you comment here?
It’s a public forum, hence I post.
I didn’t know Google owned a gay bar in San Francisco.
Oh wait, they don’t. You just didn’t read the article.
