Drag is another thing.
I’m not drag phobic. On occasion I find drag acts entertaining and engaging. If that’s what people want to do, they should do it. However I am acutely uncomfortable with the modern trend to celebrate drag to the point of reverence. In essence drag takes aspects of the stereotype of femininity, such as eye-catching frocks and shoes, elaborate barnets and make up, and ramps them up to the extreme. The worst kinds of female behaviour, the catty bitchiness, the fickle whimsicality, are held up as the template. It’s at best a satirical parody (that is not a tautology) of femininity, at worst it’s a hateful and grotesque caricature. It seems to me just another way for men to be misogynistic, yet they’re lauded for it. That really annoys me, because I like women.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 8 Aug 2021, 16:18,
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I've always wanted to see a
drag king do an act based on the negative male stereotype of a Top Gear banter wanker.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Sun 8 Aug 2021, 16:55,
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