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Letter: Drag warnings are artificial outrage

By Ray Norman, Vancouver
Published: March 21, 2023, 6:00am

Wow. Apparently in Tennessee (and soon to be other states) classic movies are now a danger to our children. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon (“Some Like It Hot”) are so scary in their drag outfits. Dustin Hoffman (“Tootsie”), and Robin Williams (“Mrs. Doubtfire”) are, too. If you believe the rhetoric, these movies and others of their ilk must immediately have their parental warnings changed to NC-17 lest the impressionable 10-year-olds in a household be exposed to pornography (i.e. men in drag).

Spare me the artificial outrage. Our country faces real problems. Mrs. Doubtfire reading to children is not one of them.

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