During the final monologue of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) accused Disney of sexually objectifying children. vindicated, likening the drag queen’s story time to behavior that everyone agrees is “borderline” and “abuse” in other contexts.
After discussing Nickelodeon’s alleged abuse of child stars in the “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” documentary, Maher said the documentary “also exposes hypocrisy, because Florida’s evil governor… , he was dismissed as an idiot and a bigot, even though he was saying the exact same thing about Disney kids and creepy stuff that liberals currently find intolerable on Nickelodeon. Why is the content factory for Nickelodeon so different from the Nickelodeon factory? [I]In 2021, Disney child star Alyson Stoner confessed:Barely survived the pipeline from toddler to train wreck.The following year, child actor Cole Sprouse said: new york times Young Disney Channel actresses are said to have been “heavily sexualized” from an early age. Willie Sutton said he robbed banks because that’s where the money was, and the reason you find pedophiles in the Boy Scouts and parsonages and on children’s television is because there are children there. DeSantis wasn’t wrong. But we’re so tribal now that the left will overlook a f*ck to a child if someone from the wrong party denounces it. Sure, Nickelodeon ruined Amanda Bynes, but The Mickey Mouse Club was Britney Spears’ starting point, and she’s totally fine. And understand this: After Brian Peck, who was one of Nickelodeon’s main Phantoms, was sentenced to 16 months in prison for sexual abuse at Nickelodeon, Disney rightfully They hired him to create a children’s series. ”
She continued, “Not just in Hollywood, these days Instagram moms are making their tiny beauty queen daughters wear skimpy bikinis and feed them bananas in order to achieve social media stardom.” And there are people who are virtually on OnlyFans…and people who believe in social justice are saying that this is wrong, this is bad, and that adults are wearing bright costumes and make-up. I agree that exposing yourself to the world is almost abuse. Now hurry up and get in the car, you’ll be late for drag queen story time. There’s nothing wrong with being a drag queen. Maybe it’s time to admit that drag queen story time is sometimes more for queens than kids. Sure, kids love clowns, but clowns have boobs. Is it necessary? …If you want children to be more tolerant, why not have disabled people read stories to them? Children are more likely to encounter disabled people in their lives than drag queens. is expensive.”
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