Posted on 04/17/2023 12:51:31 PM PDT by Red Badger
Children’s toy store Build-a-Bear is selling RuPaul-themed drag queen teddies in a supposedly adults-only section of its website dubbed the ‘Bear Cave’.
The RuPaul Bear Gift Set features a teddy wearing a blonde wig, the garish lipstick and eyeshadow synonymous with the drag scene, with a gold sequin dress and heels.
Drag queens have become a key battleground in the Western culture wars in recent years, as leftist activists increasingly insist that it is vital to expose children to often highly-sexualised drag performances from the cradle to college, in venues including schools and public libraries.
RuPaul Charles, 62, is perhaps the most recognizable drag queen worldwide, with his RuPaul’s Drag Race television show spawning multiple spin-offs and hosting the likes of Justin Trudeau, who used an appearance on its Canadian iteration to promote diversity and mass migration.
Build-a-Bear’s decision to partner with the drag queen comes at a time when conservatives are increasingly pushing back against woke corporations pushing 2SLGBTQI+ content. Bud Light, for example, has cost its parent company billions with an “inclusive” campaign centered on transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, while Lego has earned parents’ ire with a campaign promoting various gender identities and adult concepts such as “identify[ing] as pansexual” on social media.
Build-a-Bear’s drag queen teddy is not aimed at children, being sold on an adults-only section of its website most parents are likely unaware of, dubiously titled ‘The Bear Cave’.
The Bear Cave is easily accessible from Build-a-Bear’s main website, however, with potential customers merely having to click its logo at the top of the site to be taken to a page informing them that “[t]he Bear Cave™ is filled with unexpected collabs and unique plush gifts, intended for shoppers 18 and older” and inviting them to click a ‘Continue’ button if they wish to proceed.
Much of the content in the ‘Cave’ actually seems likely to appeal to minors, including bears based on the Star Wars, DC Comics, Marvel franchises, and children’s movie The Night Before Christmas.
“Mama Ru makes her debut on the Build-A-Bear mainstage in the form of the first-ever RuPaul Bear!” the Bear Cave declares proudly of its RuPaul offering, in language which appears to imply further drag queen teddies are on the way.
“Give our ultra cute RuPaul gifts to surprise any of your friends obsessed with the hit franchise. And remember — if you can’t love yourself, how are you gonna love somebody else?” it adds.
Build-a-Bear was founded and remains headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, with annual revenue in excess of $350 million, as well as employing over 5,000 staff. It’s founder, Maxine Clark, is a Democratic Party donor and sits on the board of the globalist ‘New America’ pressure group, as well as on the board of U.S. state media entity, PBS. New America’s funding comes predominantly from the Ford Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the U.S. State Department (aka public tax dollars), as well as prospective Ron DeSantis backer Reid Hoffman.
I doubt they sell them with MAGA hats, though!
I can’t post my last exasperated expletive. I’m disgusted that highly-paid supposedly intelligent people have fallen for the latest fad, the one that is going for the jugular vein of the family in an attempt to bring it down once and for all.
The Left would literally eat bugs if they thought that would defy conservatives, Christians and reality.
Oh, wait, they already do that. Okay, so maybe they’d take cops off the streets in order to prove that cops are racist?
That one’s taken, too? Oh well. How about they’d ban coal plants and gasoline engines in order to save the world’s poor from the weather?
Ugh, they’re working on that one, too. Well, let’s just say they’d do anything to be against you, including, if you can believe it, because I can’t, dressing up teddy bears as drag queens.
What parent in their right mind would take their kids to this “woke” company. Hope they go out of business, soon.
At least the worldly people aren’t trying as hard to be sheep in wolves clothing. They’re now much more obvious who they are and what they’re about.
>I can’t post my last exasperated expletive.
Ditto.
God is going to pull the plug.
Red Hats are broke from donating money to their multi-billionaire messiah. No market for MAGA Hat Bears.
They would put penises on them if they could. Sickos.
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Got issues with people funding their candidate of choice, or is it just Trump, specifically?
Also fail: MAGA is a concept not a person.
So, we’d likely agree Trump MUST OWN how he let Birx & Fauci rick-roll him on Warp Speed. The looks they exchanged behind Trump’s back at that press conference really did say it all. They played him for a SAP, and — by all evidence — he still clueless about it; like a vax True Believer.
Between that, and him taking appointment suggestions from eGOP types rooted in the Deep State, I’d say he’s running his 2024 campaign on 3 out of 8 cylinders.
But you seem overly animated with your “multi- billionaire messiah” jab.
What gives?
I just think Trump can self-fund rather than grift off his followers.
They’ve been an assh*le company for quite a while.
Next up, pedo bears....?
I knew the Buildabears(Bildabergs) were evil.😆😆
Fire request on post #9.
WTF are you again???
Welcome to FR.
Good bye.
IBTZ
The sooner the better and well deserved at that.
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