Totally agree! I find drag offensive as demeaning "woman face" mockery, but wouldn't ban it as adult entertainment. Seeing it promoted to children makes my blood boil. Its overt sexuality is inappropriate for kids, and it imprints harmful, degrading stereotypes about women to impressionable minds. Toxic indeed.
Totally agree! I find drag offensive as demeaning "woman face" mockery, but wouldn't ban it as adult entertainment. Seeing it promoted to children makes my blood boil. Its overt sexuality is inappropriate for kids, and it imprints harmful, degrading stereotypes about women to impressionable minds. Toxic indeed.
To each his/her own - I have always thought that the core of drag’s humor is that the performative femininity is *inherently masculine*. I think about drag performers like Bob the Drag Queen or Divine. The core of drag is a (usually) gay man - someone who is often not terribly in touch with his masculine side in a traditional way, often a bit fey or sissy - liberating his masculine traits by disguising them behind a female persona. This is why drag queens are so often embodying stereotypically male traits - physically and sexually aggressive, disagreeable, lewd, etc. It’s a performance of irony.
Agree with a lot of this. People can be offended by drag queens if they wish, but drag performers never (or perhaps only rarely) intend to demean women. That´s not what it´s about. Those who take it that way just aren´t understanding.
Totally agree! I find drag offensive as demeaning "woman face" mockery, but wouldn't ban it as adult entertainment. Seeing it promoted to children makes my blood boil. Its overt sexuality is inappropriate for kids, and it imprints harmful, degrading stereotypes about women to impressionable minds. Toxic indeed.
To each his/her own - I have always thought that the core of drag’s humor is that the performative femininity is *inherently masculine*. I think about drag performers like Bob the Drag Queen or Divine. The core of drag is a (usually) gay man - someone who is often not terribly in touch with his masculine side in a traditional way, often a bit fey or sissy - liberating his masculine traits by disguising them behind a female persona. This is why drag queens are so often embodying stereotypically male traits - physically and sexually aggressive, disagreeable, lewd, etc. It’s a performance of irony.
Agree with a lot of this. People can be offended by drag queens if they wish, but drag performers never (or perhaps only rarely) intend to demean women. That´s not what it´s about. Those who take it that way just aren´t understanding.