AndyRM
Elder Goth
I have been to pantomime show. I presume it's the same
Yeah, it totally is.
I can't believe I didn't realise this before!
I have been to pantomime show. I presume it's the same
Did you need to go to a minstrel show to form an opinion as to whether it's demeaning or not?
That clip is a classic example. Jimbo is not mocking breastfeeding, they are sexualising it. Drag is highly sexualised. Nothing to do with women.I don't know why some women like Ru Paul's drag race. I would guess that they've had centuries of socialisation into not questioning how women are depicted and seeing it as harmless fun, which is exactly what they used to say about blackface. I don't get why some women opposed the vote or support prostitution either. Just because some women support it doesn't automatically mean it's acceptable. Some women support all kinds of stuff that are harmful to both themselves and other women.
Did you need to go to a minstrel show to form an opinion as to whether it's demeaning or not?
Yet they dress as caricatures of women. I'm not sure your description of drag as sexualising female functions makes it any more palatable.
Each to themselves. Maybe drag is not for you. However, drag artists are not wanting to be women. They are creating extreme feminised, comic, sexualised personalities - hence the names - A'Whora, Ella VaDay, Cheryl Hole, Sum Ting Wong etc