Conservatives Unleash Negative Tweets At Pizza Hut After Restaurant Chain Suggests Kids Read A Book Involving Drag

It fits the bill of the "Artifact Title" trope, it started out exposing liberals on TikTok, but now it's like 1/3rd the posts now. Conservatives have used the trope many times… I mean, how many Tumblr posts are on TumblrInAction now?

Interestingly, Looney Tunes was originally made for adults in cinemas, not for kids watching TV. There are several jokes that are pretty raunchy, especially for the time.

And yet Bugs doing drag has been his defining joke for the past 80 years without much hoopla.

I mean, Bugs in drag is iconic, but "defining joke"… His first six or so shorts didn't feature him in drag, It wasn't until some WWII propaganda short he started wearing it, and it didn't become a staple until Chuck Jones took over from Bob Clampett.

And Fudd started out as an African American invalid. Characters take time to find their stride.

A Wild Hare – July 27, 1940
All This and Rabbit Stew – September 13, 1941

Plus, according to animation cels, the black hunter was literally the now-racially insensitive "Sambo" character from the old children's tale "Little Black Sambo".

IKR and what happen to "Freedom of speech"?

"Freedom to say what I want, while also being able to censor anything I find objectionable."

there's kinda a difference between "someone saying the slightest wrongthink that gets them fired from their job" and "putting drag queens in a children's book"
that being said, conservatives have supported canceling people in the past, it's just that conservatism isn't the status quo anymore so they have less power.

People always like to phrase their pet concerns in terms of universal principles that sound good, but that they and most people don't actually sincerely care about. Most people who complain about cancel culture are really just concerned about themselves or people they like getting in some kind of trouble, but that sounds less noble than defending the concept of free speech. They have no aversion of any kind to people they don't like getting cancelled, and will freely wield whatever cultural and political power they can to cancel the people they don't like.

Don't really know. I've argued with woke people on this site before that claim that transvestites aren't real.

Most left-loons would have you believe Drag in an expression of trans, even though it involves 100% less bodily harm and 50% more grotesque fashion.

Judith Butler, who is pretty much the mother of the current gender ideology, praised drag and used it to support her conclusions in her work "Gender Trouble" (which I was made to read in a rhetoric class.) Of course, her arguments are flimsy and are made to seem better with her purple prose.

There's a pretty big pushback against drag in some LBGTQ circles, though it's hotly internally debated. A lot of people view reinforcing "lol guy in a dress" as a spectacle and a joke as damaging to actual transgender people who want to just get by. Drag queens by definition aren't transgender but putting on a performative parody of gender combined with outre fashion. Others applaud this as helping to break down gender norms and lampoon societal taboos around dress, or just appreciate the wild fashion. It's not at all a settled issue as far as I know.

At the moment, it still seems to be kind of generally popular in LGBT circles, but it is easy to see that it could end up forming a rift, because there's nothing inherently LGBT about drag at all. I get the impression a lot of drag queens are gay, but they're also cis and I could see how the trans community might be uncomfortable with being conflated with drag (which they often kind of are by anti-trans activists and even the mainstream).

If there was a Venn Diagram then it would probably be a circle.

Exactly. I never even really liked Pizza Hut's pizza in the first place… It kind of tasted… off. Plus, most Pizza Huts I see are kind of expensive.

Hobby Lobby was always bad news: any "hobby shop" that doesn't sell trains is an abomination.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think it's inherently sexual

Wasn't there a whole thing a few years back about a preteen drag queen who was a stripper at a gay bar?

That desmond kid that pedophiles were forcing to act sexual and trying to portray as "progressive"

Furries say the same thing. Furries are liars.

Turns out, there's an entry for that.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/desmond-napoles

But how could possibly out pizza the hut ?!

Their alleged pizza supremacy has made them week, unable to compete without shallow gimmicks.

Almost certainly not. Pizza Hut is a franchise, so they don't actually run the individual restaurants and can't really force them to be any better. Even if they could though, improving the pizzas is probably a very complex problem that would likely involve some combination of sourcing new ingredients, getting all employees additional training, and buying new equipment for baking the pizzas, all of which is really expensive and difficult to implement.

On the other hand, triggering some Twitter conservatives to get attention is extremely easy and takes very little money or effort.

I'm a pretty understanding person but I've never seen the appeal of drag queens.

Why would anyone voluntarily want to look like they got shot by Homer's make up gun?

In British tradition the drag show is supposed to be comedy; the spectacle of a butch man caked in too much makeup, dressing up like a bordello madame and acting like the biggest tease imaginable.

It's supposed to be ridiculous; uglier the man, the heavier the makeup, the more elaborate the dress, all the better to make a hillarious farce.

It is utterly bewildering as to why anyone would present it as a something for kids to aspire.

The only sense I can make of it is they set out to offend, and consistently go too far.

By the grace of my preference for a buff woman I could arm-wrestle and lose, I'd actually prefer the advances of an underage twink femboy over getting a glimpse of a drag-queen any day.

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That's the point. A normal person wouldn't put on clown make up before heading into the office.
They are exaggeratingly performing beauty. Pushing it so far they they become a parody of femininity, beauty, and fashion. They are clowns, but in a good way.

But you wouldn't be you if you wore drag. The point of drag is to become a parody of what you think beauty is. Like Bob Bell stopped being Bob after he put on the make up and became Bozo the clown. Same thing with drag queens and kings. Become someone else and become larger than life. That's drag.