As some of you are already aware, this thread highlights a 2008 book titled The Boy in the Dress. It was adapted as a film six years later, and was broadcasted earlier this month on the 10th, on CBBC. It should come as no surprise that the book faced controversy over the years — typically the same tired tripe about "sexualizing" and "grooming" boys and "child abuse".
This isn't about the book, however; it was a just prelude to the focal point of this thread. It's about a similar, more vicious overreaction of a small piece of footage that has people losing their minds over. It's this:
Here's the context behind this: the source of this image is a Netflix singalong series dubbed CoComelon Lane for toddlers and slightly older children. This is the eighth episode of the first season, in which every episode features several songs about important life lessons and such. The third song, "Just Be You", is a musical about a boy who wants to look his best. His fathers (another triggering factor to the backlash) reassures the boy that being himself is the best look he can have. He doesn't understand this, so he sings about what to wear, which is a montage of him dressing up as a fireman (a mainly male-dominated job), a chef, to him wearing a tutu and tiara over his casual clothes. That only lasted for six seconds, but that was enough for reactionaries to label it as, "Child abuse!" "Molestation!" "Confusion!" "Agenda!" "Boycott!" "Pure EVIILLLLLLLL!!!1!!". Here's another article about this; read this at your own peril, because this same dumb nonsense is spew in Tweets. What's even more hilarious is that these f***ing morons can't even tell the difference between a dress and a tutu:
https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture ... cott-calls
This is what we, as a niche community, are up against. This is conservative people making a stink towards this entire show based off of a single clip that wasn't ten seconds long, and wasn't even the focus of what the actual lesson being taught here was about. These are the kind of people who would stand in opposition towards us because it conflicts with their ideals of traditional gender norms whilst also upholding double standards when it comes gendered fashion — no one would've batted an eye if that boy was instead a girl who dressed like a prince for about the same amount of time he was in that tiara-tutu combo. NO ONE. The only reason people are angry about this because they have no value in their lives, so they make up random nonsense about an agenda being pushed when the the only one being pushed is their own — they're hypocrites. They don't care about children; they only care about maintaining this obnoxious gender division in clothing.
The video itself has 10,100 dislikes as opposed to 202 at the time of me writing this. The ratio is the way it is because of those six seconds. Just think about that for a moment. Not a single person is talking about anything that wasn't at all related to this particular segment of this particular song of this particular episode. Just that small piece of video that was only six seconds long, and somehow, those six seconds completely invalidate the song, the entire episode, and the whole show.
Here's, the video itself, if you want to see what all this alarming protest is about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmNwKPRzyfM
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