Charlize Theron has come out — as an enforcer for drag queens.
“We love you queens! We’re in your corner, and we’ve got you, and I will f–k anybody up who is, like, trying to f–k with anything with you guys,” Theron said during the Drag Isn’t Dangerous telethon.
Theron is putting her muscle behind performers who are biological men and choose to dress up like clownish, overexaggerated women in their spare time.
They’re not some vulnerable ethnic or religious minority subject to oppression based on immutable characteristics.
But that hasn’t stopped Theron and other Hollywood feminists such as Melissa McCarthy, Marcia Gay Harden and Sarah Silverman from fetishizing them as the Uyghurs of the west.
Remember when telethons were put on for sick kids or natural disasters? Now it’s for dudes who tape their junk.
I enjoyed “Kinky Boots” and the delightful movie “Dumplin’” but overall, I’m quite agnostic on drag queens. However, I could never have predicted they’d be the source of so much cultural agita in 2023.
The right wants to prevent oversexualizing drag shows in front of kids while the left has essentially deemed the performers virtuous and necessary components of childhood education, thus sending both sides to the legislative mat.
But some of the circulating videos of drag performers gyrating or twerking on or near kids are so graphic, one has to assume the audience’s next family outing is to see Crystal on the main stage at Foxy Lady. Bizarre.
If you’re so invested in your kids growing up with drag queens, God bless.
But let’s chalk up this particular celebrity advocacy as another win for the patriarchy.
All of these women are self-identified feminists, but they haven’t said a peep when girls are literally crying out for their spaces, which are being invaded by biological males, with self-identification serving as the only gatekeeper.
Where were these activists last week when 18-year-old Megan Simpkins, a senior at Martin Luther King HS in Riverside, Calif., gave an impassioned speech about having to share a bathroom with an erratic and violent trans classmate who beat up a much smaller girl in a sickening attack caught on video.
“Of course, any male who claims he is a woman will accept it, but what about the women? What about the true girls like myself who are females down to our DNA? Why don’t we ever get a say in whether or not we are comfortable with this?” Simpkins bravely said, addressing the school board.
“The truth is we aren’t, the majority of us aren’t, and yet nothing has been done to protect the safety of these women. I will conclude with this: It all starts with you. You are in charge of the safety of us women.”
Where are they when former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was assaulted by trans activists at San Francisco State for speaking out against allowing trans athletes to compete against women?
What about when Austin Killips, a trans woman, took top prize ($35,000) in the Tour of the Gila bike race — and when champion cyclocross rider Hannah Arensman quit competing after losing to a trans woman?
The hypocrisy and silence are deafening.
Both Theron and Harden say they have kids who identify as trans — but as feminists, that shouldn’t stop them and others from having common-sense discussions about the rights of biological women to feel safe in bathrooms and to have a level playing field in athletics.
Theron was once a vocal proponent of the #MeToo movement and argued that the “re-education” of society was good, even if “we have to overcorrect for a little while.”
Maybe she now feels the need for a re-education of women on their rights. That they should always be ceded to a biological man who feels like a woman.
Nowadays, it seems as if “I am woman, hear me roar” has been rebranded to “I am woman, please ignore.”
But if you cross the men who dress as women for play, Theron has a knuckle sandwich for you.
I’ve seen enough drag queens in New York City to know that they’re perfectly capable of manhandling someone themselves.
Why is it that when girls speak out about safety or fairness concerns, no one seems to be listening?
But when a guy who dresses up like one feels his rights are being infringed upon, all the feminists come running.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
