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    Life Is A Drag

    Lilly's Kids: What's Christmas Without Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?

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    Image of OneTwoPunch OneTwoPunch
    11/12/09

    In reply to Life Is A Drag
    Brilliant! I knew it when I saw that drag episode of Project Runway that it was one of their best, if not the THE best, show they've aired. #queensofdrag
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Life Is A Drag
    No drag act, or any stage/variety act, will ever come close to when I watched a drag queen lip synch to Whitney's version of "I will always love you" while being urinated on by naked musclebound men in pig masks. Even on mouth contact, she didn't miss a note. Good time had by all! #queensofdrag
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    Image of dcdulce dcdulce
    11/12/09

    In reply to Life Is A Drag
    I know that there are serious analyses of drag out there...but at the end of the day..Lady Bunny says it best...
    "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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    11/12/09

    @dcdulce: Maybe she can heal the Team Cake/Team Pie rift in the Jezebel readership. We wait for your wisdom! #queensofdrag
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Life Is A Drag
    Oooo, I don't know anything about how shows get produced but is there anyone I can email to let them know I would watch this show if it was picked up? #queensofdrag
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    Image of Tchotchke Tchotchke
    11/12/09

    In reply to Life Is A Drag
    I love drag queens. I find them fascinating and often, very beautiful. Perhaps this is in part because so much of the music and art that I love has been inspired by them. Perfect example: Antony & the Johnsons, Lou Reed/Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol's Factory. "Candy Darling on Her Deathbed" is one of my favorite photos of all time. I will definitely watch this show (assuming that it is much better than that VH1 travesty, "RuPaul's Drag Race.") #queensofdrag
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    Image of LucilleMcGillicuddy LucilleMcGillicuddy
    11/12/09

    In reply to Life Is A Drag
    didn't he leave the show due to a health issue? glad to see he's well. I'll dump the newly sucky PR and watch this instead.
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    Image of ucelluccia ucelluccia
    11/12/09

    @LucilleMcGillicuddy: He's healthy but HIV+ and got an infection (I think a staph infection?) and had to leave to get treatment for it. V. sad. #queensofdrag
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    11/12/09

    In reply to Life Is A Drag

    I would order cable just to watch Queens of Drag ; sounds Divine! #queensofdrag
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    11/12/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: Also, in case y'all haven't seen this...it's been stuck in my head for days. #queensofdrag
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    11/12/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: uhm, that's me :) #queensofdrag
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    11/12/09

    @dcdulce: why...hello! #queensofdrag
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/10/09

    In reply to Lilly's Kids: What's Christmas Without Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?
    True fact: I used to babysit this little boy who loved to get dressed up in princess garb and play witches or Sailor Moon. Super cute kid and his parents just let him go for it. I've always wondered what happen to him... #lilyskids
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    Image of GoldenRatioφ (aka -girl11) GoldenRatioφ (aka -girl11)
    11/10/09

    In reply to Lilly's Kids: What's Christmas Without Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?
    Sigh. I wonder if I can get a copy of this magazine to prove to my (soon to be) in laws that my (soon to be) niece can play soccer and still cook and bake and clean and be pink. So far, they will only let her be a cheerleader and dance while her brothers play football, baseball AND soccer. #lilyskids
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    Image of pesematology pesematology
    11/09/09

    In reply to Lilly's Kids: What's Christmas Without Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?
    Don't feel bad Dodai, I wanted to be a maid when I was like 5, because of Cinderella. My parents (doctor and lawyer) were mortified. #lilyskids
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    Image of DinosaurDanceParty DinosaurDanceParty
    11/09/09

    @pesematology: I like to think it's because kids don't have a lot of understanding of professions. When I worked in a preschool I would ask the kids what they wanted to be when they grew up sometimes and I got answers from "farmer" (we lived in San Francisco), "hippie," "cartoon fox," "bob the builder," "robot," "nurse," (by a boy!!!!) and "psychologist." For realsies #lilyskids
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    Image of lalie (apologetic mess) lalie (apologetic mess)
    11/10/09

    @DinosaurDanceParty: When I was a camp counselor, one of my third graders told me he wanted to be a frog, and would hop down the hall to me every day. He later on decided that he wanted to be a snake. Then he wanted to be both a frog AND a snake, something he christened "a frake". #lilyskids
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    Image of pesematology pesematology
    11/10/09

    @lalie (apologetic mess): Woah, I'm going to encourage my kids, when I have them, to do well in school so they can turn into a frake. #lilyskids
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    Image of Snowbunny Snowbunny
    11/09/09

    In reply to Lilly's Kids: What's Christmas Without Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?
    Is that massive croquet? Because yes. Croquet is for girls. And boys. And dogs. #lilyskids
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Lilly's Kids: What's Christmas Without Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?
    To be fair, if a boy wanted to be a pretty princess, he would technically be a pretty prince...unless he was pretending to be a girl. I am not against experimenting with gender identity, but I do believe the proper noun should be used with royalty. #lilyskids
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    11/09/09

    @Snowbunny: Royalty, though, is one case where you can say "their" instead of "his" or "her" and still be correct. Because if there's a Royal We there must be a Royal Them, no? #lilyskids
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    Image of Snowbunny Snowbunny
    11/09/09

    @pesematology: Yes, so maybe all young royal should be Princes, which is either plural Prince or a lazy person writing out Princess, but a good intermediate all the same. #lilyskids
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Lilly's Kids: What's Christmas Without Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?
    This has ALWAYS been true in this catalog. I used to go through it and write my name in pen over all the boy stuff, and then show my mom and be like, SO THERE.

    I still got a pink towel with a ballet slipper on it, though. #lilyskids
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Lilly's Kids: What's Christmas Without Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?
    My mom got into a huge fight with these people when I was a kid. She wanted two towels with my and my sister's names on them. Our bathroom was blue. Hence, she ordered the blue towel with a sneaker design and the names "Jenny" and "Katie". The woman on the phone was like, oh so you want the pink towel with the ballet shoes? My mom: No, I want the blue towels. Lady: But you said Jenny and Katie. Those are girl names. You want the pink towel. Mom: No, I want the blue towel. It was like a gender-fail Who's on First. #lilyskids
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    Image of Elaken Elaken
    11/09/09

    In reply to Lilly's Kids: What's Christmas Without Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?
    Did anybody ever like playing with those things, such as the fake grill and fake kitchen? I always found them so tedious, you flip a fake food and that is about the extent of play. Just give me some dinosaurs - that's all I needed for hours of fun. #lilyskids
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    11/09/09

    @Elaken: I was a weird child in that I didn't so much use my toys for imaginative play as I loved putting them together. I would basically assemble my dream world. I would then disassemble it and build it again. Barbies weren't used for cooperative "you be Ken and I'll be Barbie!" play as for putting on my own little silent films and also for designing clothes.

    I have NO IDEA what this says about me as a person. #lilyskids
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    11/09/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: Me too! My mother has taught kindergarten and first grade for thirty years, and when I came along, she was really perplexed by the fact that I didn't "play" - I just set everything up the way I wanted it, and walked away.

    Actually, that kind of explains a lot about me. :) #lilyskids
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    11/09/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: Oh, I was like that! Wow, I didn't know there were two of us. I loved putting things together, generally by following elaborate instructions. I was not so much a creative child, but I could be precise and careful. I just knew I should have gone to trade school. #lilyskids
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    Image of anya629 anya629
    11/09/09

    @Elaken: ha! I never played with fake food; I played with real food. I had a Fisherprice kitchen, with cupboards. I took a package of hamburger meat that I found thawing in our real kitchen, and put the meat in my Fisherprice kitchen cupboard. My mom found the meat 3 days later. #lilyskids
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    11/09/09

    @anya629: Well that made me laugh out loud. Your poor mom. #lilyskids
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    Image of Dancingfrog Dancingfrog
    11/10/09

    @Elaken: Yes. My friends and I would make up elaborate stories - it was a lot more than "flipping fake food". We'd also make up elaborate stories with dinosaur toys. And blocks. I'm kind of saddened by all the people who are applying adult logic to child's play, or who are applying their own experience to all other children. Some kids do find flipping fake food without a story to go along with it loads of fun. Kids are all different, like adults. For instance, some adults find grilling fun. Others find it tedious, And all sorts of feelings in between. #lilyskids
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    11/10/09

    @Dancingfrog: Well that is kind of why I was asking. I think sometimes toys for children are created and bought by adult minds without really appealing to children. I was wondering if people had enjoyed them and in what way - such as learning apparently several people liked to just assemble everything when a child. #lilyskids
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