The Last Leg is disabled people mocking themselves rather than ables pretending to have cerebral palsy, so different IMO
Itās one thing to mock someone for what they do, and another to mock someone for who they are
The whole premises of drag is āsee how ridiculous women are. How they look, how they behaveā. Rather than āthis woman did something foolish and hilarity ensuedā
Riddle me this, which of the two sides of your equation has a long history of racism in the United States.
Ok. But I as a non disabled person laughed along at their jokes like the monster I am.
I think either could be seen as misogynist. So say your idiot female character in a 50,s sit com is mocked for what they do. Which is still preying on a stereotype.
Drag has a long history of misogyny all around the world
Your point beingā¦?
You big drama queen
That is true, the female impersonator could be misogynistic, that depends on the script/direction
Monty Python used female impersonation without becoming misogynistic
I argue that drag is inheritantly misogynistic. The only reason it functions as humour is due to the misogynistic tropes that it embodies
Obscene parody? Drag is a joke, itās pantomime. At worst itās bad taste cabaret. My step brother has been a drag act since the mid 90ās and in every show the performers were almost always gentle trans-gay men who could express themselves in a ludicrous, glitzy format. There was never any intent to insult women, in fact that was the last thing they ever wanted. Whilst thatās one example I havenāt seen any reason to suggest that the drag scene is much different in other countries.
Iām just bemused at the wokeās ability to be so puritanical in its approach to being offended. The Rocky Horror Picture Show must be a nightmare to these people.
Itās only a joke
A bit of harmless fun
Thatās the rhetoric employed by black face apologists
And I am sure many of the people that blacked up for Minstrel shows were āreally nice guysā
Thatās hardly the point
Being anti drag isnāt āwokeā as you put it
Quite the opposite
Women that speak up are often silenced be an Internet pile on
Incidentally, Rocky Horror doesnāt really contain drag
It contains transvestisism
Well, you know what they say: Itās just a step to the left, and then a jump to the right.
Where do effeminate gays fall into this?
Personally I keep sexual preference separate
Transvestisism isnāt a gay thing, though there is obvious cross over
IMHO, as a non professional, I would suspect people who can only express themselves via drag to have/had a problematic relationship with their mother or some other strong significant female
Campness, I seen more as emulation than parody
Agreed, I think if we split those who genuinely practice cross dressing as part of their identity from those who do it to be cheeky.
Chris lilly did both. Dressed up in black face and girl face in pretty much the exact same sort of satire.
It would be interesting to see if one offended and one did not. Or both or none or something.
I think Iām conditioned to wince when I see black face
I ask myself "is it vital to the performance? "
Mostly I donāt think it is
Woman face doesnāt give me the same gut reaction until it becomes quite extreme and stylised, and spiteful I suppose
Guess Iām a hypocrite or something
I am looking forward for a reboot of Ms.Doubtfire with Robert Downey Jr
Thinking even in crowdfunding it
First Tropic Thunder
Now this!!!111
Someone will be offended by something at sometime. SJWās gonna hate, hate, hate.
The term, in european Spanish, is ofendiditos