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[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I can definitely see where you're coming from. People watch Drag Race and see its normalisation of performative femininitysorry and I'm sure a certain percentage of its viewership then think to themselves 'Oh! This is what trans is? Oh but drag queens are so much fun! You sashay into that bathroom, sis! Okurrrrr'

I go back and forth on Drag Race personally. On the one hand, it's great that it has such a wide reach and RePreSeNTaTion etc. But on the other hand it's always struck me as a little misogynistic. And then they started allowing transwomen to take part, and I personally don't think a transwoman can be a drag queen, but perhaps I'm just an inveterate transphobe who wants to exclude trans people from everything, who knows?

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Over time it seems like the show's reached the other end of the horseshoe on sexism. It's men writing women at its progressive extreme.

[–]joogabahGay shows the way 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Does it normalize performative femininity or poke fun at it? Drag could be gender subversive by making it a joke. Trans cannot tho.