In 2019, two beautiful models flashed their breasts during game 5 of the World Series, at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.
Major League Baseball was not amused.
Julia Rose and Lauren Summer were dragged out of the park and permanently banned from all Major League Baseball stadiums and facilities.
Women’s bare breasts are not allowed in baseball parks nor are they allowed pretty much anywhere else.
Why?
People smarter than me put it this way: “Women’s breasts have sexual implications.”
In other words, we’re trying to run a family-friendly operation in America’s ballparks and a sexualized spectacle is definitely not family-friendly.
However, yesterday at Fenway Park in Boston, fans were treated to a drag show.
A team-sponsored, sexually-charged event.
Are we suggesting that these men, dressed in gaudy, revealing costumes are not a sexualized spectacle?
If not then can Lauren Summer skip down the concourse at Fenway and gobble popcorn in field box seats wearing this?
No. Of course not.
And another thing. Why do we accept such a vulgar depiction of women by these men at all?
As FeministCurrent.com writes:
Why is it cute or funny or entertaining for men to mock women via drag? Why is it not considered to be a form of cultural appropriation, but with regard to gender? Why have progressives and mainstream feminists avoided critique of these performances, in large part?
All good questions but while we’re figuring it out, women get the shaft, as usual.
The truth is MLB and the Red Sox are all for a sexually charged experience at the ballpark as long as it falls under the umbrella of a Pride event. As long as it is men lampooning women in a tawdry manner it is all good but actual women better cover up.
Julia Rose and Lauren Summer are not welcome to the Red Sox drag shows, but your children are.