Nutrien Rainbow Festival

[jazz]

This is the best explanation I have heard on why these companies are going woke. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM2FpeDB1/

That doesnt make sense. Those same banks lend to oil companies and farmers and some of the most non-woke people. Unless we will all have to fly rainbow flags to get loans.

This is all coming from inside these companies. Its a GenY fckup. The latchkey kid, single parent no father divorced mom generation have slipped into the structure.

[biglentil]

Unless we will all have to fly rainbow flags to get loans.

Thats coming, they want the flags flying on aircarts to be rainbow. As much demoralization as it is destabalization, the final 2-5 yr phase before outright communism.

[biglentil]

Yuri in his 1984 warning to America puts much of this into context.

[Hamloc]

First off I haven’t purchased anything from a Nutrien retailer in years. I didn’t appreciate their take over of the independent retailers years ago. What I can’t figure out is why companies think having Drag Queen story time is a positive for their companies image. And this isn’t specific to this event. It is being done in places like Calgary’s public library. I also can’t understand why a parent would take their child to have a man dressed as a woman read their children stories?! Also, Nutrien’s customer base are farmers like you and me, how does this increase their business?! Any thoughts?

[mustardman]

Who Gives a Rats Ass if theres a rainbow tent Big deal !
There have been Drag Queens around since the dawn of time
watching Bug Bunny dress up in womens clothing, or Mrs Doubtfire, didnt create a generation of cross dressers.
Live and let live

[Hamloc]

Who Gives a Rats Ass if theres a rainbow tent Big deal !
There have been Drag Queens around since the dawn of time
watching Bug Bunny dress up in womens clothing, or Mrs Doubtfire, didnt create a generation of cross dressers.
Live and let live

First off I have no issue with drag queens, absolutely live and let live. Would you have a problem if it was strippers reading story time and was promoted as such? My question is, what is the agenda that is being promoted here? Why Drag Queens? Why not indigenous representatives? Or other minority groups? Why Drag Queens?

[TSIPP]

Why don’t the the sickos read too the elderly at nursing homes.

[blackpowder]

Mrs Doubtfire and Mrs Brown's Boys.
Are generally G rated comedies. No one of any age would see anything sexual.
Drag queens don't wear granny dresses and clogs.
Mrs Brown would not look suggestive on a pole. A 7 year old would see a man dressed as a woman for laughs.
I'd like to walk through that tent before I passed final judgement.
Agendas run amok until challenged.
These attention stunts are backfiring for now, as they should.
Protecting children means age appropriate exposure to the concept.
At what age would you take your child through Auschwitz???
Can't believe we're even debating this!!!

[blackpowder]

I think this should be in marketing because it involves where you purchase your inputs.

And it won't involve Chuck

[Blaithin]

They may not be wearing anything revealing, maybe they will be. Should they? Not really, but then that gets into censoring what women are allowed to wear so that we don’t expose children to sexualized things too early. That is an extremely dangerous line to approach. I dare you to tell me what I’m allowed to wear because YOU think it’s too sexual. Everyone will have their own line of what’s appropriate.

Sequins? Well… are those really sexual? I wore sequins when I was 11 in tap dance. Was I being groomed dancing around? Probably, dancing has been used to groom women for centuries 😂

Cleavage? Yeah, I suppose. But go to the beach and you see that everywhere. Even the grocery store.

Extreme make up? Well, even without getting into some women’s make up preferences, clowns have been around for years and nobody would call them sexual because of excessive make up.

Readings are generally done by people to get attention and to perform. Drag queens are performers. If it’s about acceptance for trans I wouldn’t say it’s hitting that mark at all. For one, Drag Queen doesn’t mean trans. For two, performance doesn’t equal acceptance.

If they’re reading age appropriate books then it really would be no different than taking a child to see a play in the 1600s when all actors were men dressed up in corsets, dresses, wigs, and make up.

Drag Queens aren’t really projecting anything new, people are seeing them as something new. Which could make one step back and consider do children see things in a negative way, or do they see those things in the negative ways because the adults around them are preaching about it. A child is probably going to enjoy fun costumes and a good day out hearing a story (reading being something I think more kids need to do 20000x more than worry about who’s reading). A child whose parent is going to go on and on about how brave the performer is and trans is healthy is going to come away wondering what trans is and focusing on that. A child whose parent goes on and on about inappropriate sexuality, the child will take that away with them.

More than worrying about what kids take away from performances, perhaps we should worry about what we are giving them to take away.

[jensend]

Everything is identity politics now. No one is Canadian anymore. They're a gay Canadian or an English Canadian or a French Canadian or Indigenous or Person of Colour. There's less and less commonality and more division and exclusion. Throw in an assortment of religions (which are all bogus) and you have a shitshow that shows no sign of improving. The politicians study the demographics, do a few focus groups and surveys and come up with a position. The only reason to vote for Pierre is Justin. One's as bad as the other but JT is well beyond his best before date.

[Druther]

I guess its now Nutrien *** Solutions