We haven’t covered University of Toronto psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson much, but he’s straddling that electrified third rail much like Charles Murray. When The Los Angeles Times did a reasonably unbiased piece on Peterson, it triggered poor Joss Whedon into calling the paper an “incel-courting fishwrapper” (incel being short for “involuntary celibate”).

In short, The Los Angeles Times put it this way: “… one of Peterson’s central themes is that men in the modern Western world are in crisis” and “Peterson sees a feminist assault on masculinity as a major culprit.”

So Peterson was not impressed when HuffPost decided to celebrate the end of Pride Month with a piece on a 10-year-old drag queen:

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Of all people, Boy George of ’80s phenomenon The Culture Club chimed in with an opposing view:

So, which is it? Child exploitation or simply allowing a child to choose its own means of expression? The jury is split:

https://twitter.com/JWOLF55068706/status/1013712028802748417

He certainly was young when he discovered his peacock nature. We mean, really young.

https://twitter.com/Nilm2342/status/1013548025233305600

Or maybe this is all just child’s play?

https://twitter.com/JohnQPublic30/status/1013678090537578496

It certainly doesn’t seem like exploitation to outlets like ELLE, that proudly featured an 8-year-old drag queen in a video segment — probably because they couldn’t find one younger.

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