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Originally Posted by Jamie89
I really don't think drag is comparable to blackface or has anything to do with sexism. First of all women as well as men perform in drag as the opposite sexes (it's just drag queens are far more popular than drag kings... they're still a legitimate thing though), but mainly because for a lot of people drag is an expression of rebellion against gender stereotypes and is therefore liberating for both sexes, it really doesn't have anything at all to do with 'mocking' the other sex, it's about mocking the ways in which society expects those sexes to behave (and I've seen a lot of drag shows and honestly a lot of them don't even try and hide the fact they're a man in a dress with some of the stuff they come out with [emoji23] ), and also there just isn't the historical context to compare it to blackface, it hasn't been used as a repressive thing (quite the opposite), and it's not insulting towards a group of people. You link women being oppressed by men with men dressing up as women but even though it's women being impersonated, it's not women that are the 'targets' of it, which makes it very different.
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Perfectly explained Jamie.