Thanks for this
The David Walliams book is quite well known, but you do question whether it is a balanced approach to parenting to attend a drag reading and then subsequently put a young boy in a dress when there are many thousands of great literary characters to choose from. Sign of the times maybe, hopefully not something more questionable.
I am probably quite naive in these matters, but where are the wraps of drugs that you mention? The same photos, or others that you have unearthed?
I didn't share them so I won't reshare them in case people think I found them . But they're a bit further back on this thread . The picture of the little boy in the dress also has a person behind him holding a plastic baggy , which looks to have a card in it and some powder on one corner . And the person who shared it enlarged it .
I myself have experienced people at parties which were overwhelmingly gay , try to spike me with ghb . As far as I am aware this would be to make someone more sexually available . Same with ketamine which is also a painkiller . (I used to be in the army and I once tore a ligament (a rave after a combat fitness test ) and I didn't even feel it until I came down .
I tell you why it stood out .
This Transgender female youtube personality called "Blair white " made a video about the most (or one of ) famous 'drag kids " called 'desmond is amazing'.
He was filmed in a video , livestreaming with an adult drag queen . Both were very obviously sedated in a way , with heavy eyes but Desmond had on long false rainbow eyelashes so it's not as obvious .
desmond says "what has it come to , that drag kids actually exist !?" And immediately the drag queen says "and people do ketamine on a couch ". Then Desmond makes a snorting gesture and sound and says "ahhhhhh". It's pretty obvious what it is .
later Blair white shows video of the same kid , with two adults , both gay , and no mum . One of these adults was imprisoned for killing some one , and then chopping them up and putting the parts in a river . The other person who is with this man and kid just looks cold and empty and dark but he looks like a kids TV presenter . Wearing bright yellow body warmer and perfect hair . Bit he looks very, very cold .
at some point the two men make a joke about some kind of drug and smile off camera . The kid is sat under a painting which has little children's feet in sandals , with the word "rohypnol " painted on it .
so the question that people seem to be asking about my posts is "what does this have to do with Philip Schofield '?
Philip Schofield started out in children's TV. I grew up watching him . He also has a duty of care when dealing with children . Which I assume would involve keeping an eye out for children who may have been exploited . The kid drag star is called Lactatia . Lactate . Breasts feeding in public and all that are feminist issues and so his mother and sister moulded him . His mother speaks for him and answers things that he may screw up saying . He dances in adult clubs . He is surrounded by men who look VERY strangely at him .
so when I see Philip schofield who should be ,as a former children's TV presenter, be thinking hard about how adults may exploit that kid (who says things on other videos , like "people say it's inappropriate, but that just means I look good " or "I think that anyone in life can do whatever they want . If you want to be a drag queen , and your parents don't want you to , you need new parents".
so if you consider that all of these child drag stars are in adult worlds , mimicking adults with drugs , sexuality and even rejection of morality and family , and then you have two gay people (Mhairi black and Philip Schofield ) promoting lifestyle choices for kids based on their own feelings related to their own lives , but not having any concern that predators may be attracted to these kids , because they are lost in their own narcissism. So although they may not be child abusers , if they open the door and make it hard to confront abusers , then I'm sorry but they're complicit .
if your child gets introduced to adults from a sexual world , and wants to do the same and gets drugged and abused , then I think yes, this is all relevant (in replying here to a comment earlier )
So let me explain something else . In 1994-1997 my best friend ran a music magazine . I was reeling from having attacked someone in northern Ireland by battering his head in with a dumbell . At the time I felt justified (of course I wasn't ).
i did it because I was taking a lot of drugs and self medicating from abuse .
after that I met these people who ran this magazine and the boss who became my best friend almost immediately (now I understand ) started to groom me . Offered me a job and I left the army to escape the violence I had commited and the fear of retribution .
so now I was with this guy almost all the time . But for the past two years it was like this guy was my absolute hero even though I knew there's something about him .
this is what happened . When we went to raves and me and him were alone , he would be in my ear telling me all about his own abuse . Men . Lots of them . Then later it went on to how he raped people who pulled out of sex at the last minute . Then it went on to how only I understood him . One of the things he started to tell me was that he cross dressed a lot and had sex with men dressed that way .
i tried to pull away (I had a girlfriend ) and when I did he got really weird and made me feel like I let him down . And I'd already told him everything about me .
eventually he had a party . The night before he was doing a joint event with MTV (just a one off ) and was very stressed . At the party at his house the next day he gave us all LSD and then in front of everyone he attacked me . Folded me double and put his hands under my clothes . I fought him off (I was about 9 and a half stone from all the speed and he was like 15 stone )
anyway all I'm saying is , I've been through things like this and I know that people do crazy thing that they later realise were really really dangerous for all the people around them .
society may not understand the implications of the drag thing , but as far as I can see it's led my narcisstic adults with no clear boundaries and worse , they actually are flat out activists and don't care about the safety of these kids .
so if I've been an adult , former soldier and got myself in major trouble , these kids don't stand a chance , especially when people like Philip Schofield promote and politians.
also, someone said "kids don't care what they wear " . No I'm sorry , but I'm a man and I don't think people understand what the shame of being led to be dressing like a girl , when inside you're just a boy , can do .so when you see angry drag queens or trans women attacking women , it may be because their mother neglected them .
also . I read , after I saw my neighbors son in a dress (he has autism , his mum said 'hes going to show the world " I asked if he even knew about the world, at 7) I left her house and I thought 'what makes these kids choose to cross dress ?"
this website which was about children's and women's health said that children who have been led to believe one parent hates the other gender , will try to become whatever pleases their parents . But when in this days and age , that leads to drugs and predators and chemical and surgical transition , then the fallout for society is anti social people who have very few boundaries and Want to promote their screwed up lives on others .
then you get gay politicians saying that it's homophobic to challenge this .
you also have trans activists threatening women .
so basically what I'm saying is - sure , you may think that all this is irrelevant to Philip Schofield , but I wonder why people look at a man , instead of the environment he is now supporting . And promoting and yet not at all bringing up any of the issues that those of us who have been close to this story in various ways , know well .
my apologies if this feels like a heavy reply to your particular question , I don't want to confuse all this by spreading the reply around .
so long story short , I'm saying a gay guy is being talked about for his coming out and young runner thing going on . I see this and I post here . Because of lactatia . Much of what you're talking about I don't follow because I didn't watch TV for ages . But the lactatia thing led me to Schofield and then I saw this forum .
phew . Long reply . I hope that clarifies why I'm here and what angle I'm coming from . But the pictures of the kid with drugs are someone else post
(Just to finish - the anger inside me because of those past experiences affected my life badly . A lot of people suffered because of me , so it worries me when waves of young boys are being led towards danger by female parents . The internal Shame that they carry , could he horrendous when projected onto society , especially of they have transitioned or have been led artificially into homosexuality.)
thats basically my angle . When I tried to talk about this in a piece of writing about a trans activist who attacked at woman at Edinburgh university, I was outed as a transphobe on a local forum of 27000 people . Some came to see me . That's was scary .
So you know . For me the "what " is shocking but the "why" is really the most important part . It doesn't matter what you point at. The most important thing is understanding why someone does what they do because it's THAT that helps understand it's significance in society . I'm not a psychologist but I had to look into a lot of it . That guy who attacked me got stalked for a while and nearly didn't make it . I let him go because at some level I knew what was happening .
He's out now and he has a boyfriend . I hope he's a decent guy . I also hope he's healed , bit of I saw him trying to put a dress on my boy , he wouldn't make it home again .
(Sorry for the typos I'll go back and edit it later)
also not all gays are predatory and do drugs.