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"you may like your cake, that's how I love my pie..that doesn't make any of you better than I"... #queensofdrag
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Very interesting way to put it. I’d say, however, the main difference is that gay or trans men are marginalized groups. So it’s a marginalized group pretending to be another marginalized group, unlike blackface. #queensofdrag
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I understand drag to mean representing gender in some way in public, in a way that mocks, mimics, criticizes, or admires gender roles in society. It is inherently playful, yet can be very thoughtful. The drag shows I've seen have had some numbers where the kings/queens go through conflict about masculine versus feminine presentation (through dance--I know, hard to describe, but awesome!) which ultimately challenges gendered stereotypes and assumptions.
I know my friends have a really open drag troupe, but my understanding is that a person, regardless of their identity off-stage, can represent themselves any way on stage. (For example, if a woman acts fem on stage, she's doing a burlesque act at a drag show.)
And personally, I have never been bored at a drag show! #queensofdrag
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That said: I really don’t know the answer to this. #queensofdrag
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I think drag performers are mocking a gender construct, or more exactly the existence of gender constructs. They're playing with gender as a way to disarm it, I think. However, doesn't it seem impossible to mock "femininity" without also mocking, by extension, those who subscribe to it or are shaped by it? This is what I can't reconcile.
It seems like the relations between women and gay men as oppressed groups and as people is not always as cheerful as what's depicted by caricatures like Will and Grace, and Carrie and Sanford. If some of us treat them like accessories, some of them treat us like jokes. #queensofdrag
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And as far as gay men, I've run into gay men that are just as misogynist, if not more so, than Tucker Max. Just in different ways. #queensofdrag
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I'm leaving out a lot but it's a big topic. God, I loved writing that paper. I called it Dress to Kill by the by. #queensofdrag
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I have also heard things that are clearly anti-woman by drag queens, but it is almost always incorporated into the act as the queen being caddy because she is jealous of the real woman or making fun of heterosexuality. #queensofdrag
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But not all gay men are misogynist. And not all gay men are drag queens. And not all drag queens are misogynist. And on and on.
Your issue doesn't seem to be with drag then, you know? #queensofdrag
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I would order cable just to watch Queens of Drag ; sounds Divine! #queensofdrag
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I always that that if I was gonna be a drag queen, my name would be Miss Anthropy. #queensofdrag
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Except I'd feel awkward using it as a drag name, as I'm not exactly super-endowed in the titular (heh) area.
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Or Stewie Griffin.
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That said, the gay man can seriously motor in those heels. I agree with him. Running in heels is stupid.
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