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[–]anxietyaccount8 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

While many drag performances are making a caricature out of women, I don't think it's inherently bad. The whole point of being GC is that there's nothing inherently female about makeup, colorful clothes, dresses, etc.

[–]swordinthestream[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

But there is something female about breasts, which drag performers and amateurs often use for comedic effect.

[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

And they just don't don breast forms to give the impression of having enormous breasts, they pad and use protheses to caricature women's hips, thighs and butts.

Some drag acts also caricature pregnant women and enact grotesque scenes of imaginary abortion, miscarriage and FT childbirth.

[–]anxietyaccount8 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, making fun of anatomy is weird

[–]Omina_Sentenziosa 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They are not just wearing make-up, colorful clothes and dresses, though, they are doing all of that while playing a woman persona.

If they were just men in dresses and make-up it would be one thing, but they get women stage names, use female pronouns and, more often than not, recreate a pretty specific bitchy and shallow stereotype of a woman.

[–]bluetinfoilhat 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

A major focus in drag is making disparaging comments about women's vaginas and biology though. They aren't just wearing dresses and make up. They are putting on fake breast, hips, etc. They aren't dressing like David Bowie or Prince.

[–]Mermer 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

As someone who isn't into drag at all I might be in the wrong here but... I think using a female persona only as a fantasy and a performance isn't bad. It's not like they think they're real women. They like the extravagance and like I said, they're living out a fantasy and they acknowledge it as such. As long as the people doing it aren't misogynistic (which I can imagine some of them are), the drag itself isn't. Women who are heavily into make up are into it as well but they don't think it's what "makes them a woman".

[–]Omina_Sentenziosa 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Would you feel the same if the things that were used as a fantasy were disability, race or sexual orientation?