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[–][deleted] 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I hate drag too. I don't care if a man is gender nonconforming. If he wants to wear makeup or likes clothes or hobbies that are traditionallly feminine, that's fine with me. But drag as a supposed "art" is a joke at the expensive of women. Rarely do I ever see these drag performers who people claim are satirizing female gender roles and not actual women.

People trying to convince others of this "it's just satire bro" idea often come across to me as if they were trying to pass off men like Tyler Perry playing Madea as creative geniuses. If I wanted a critique of the artificiality of sex stereotypes I would be listening to an actual woman who is pressured to conform to them. Not a dude doing a sexualized performance. Some act like drag can't be criticized because some (not all, mind you) gay men like it. I don't care if straight women like it. Drag more often than is not misogynistic.

I hate how gaudy over-the-top displays like drag and kink are portrayed as parts of LGB culture.

[–]les4les 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hate drag, yeah. In my experience it's a very male or heterosexual female thing to like. I think that there's a place in the community for camp due to historical context but I don't like that drag is forced down everybody's throats and made such a huge deal of all the time. It is offensive to women and it baffles me to see anybody argue that it isn't