[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I disagree tbh, I don't think the act of drag is demeaning. It's not intended to mock women especially considering that women can also be drag queens as well. It's less to do with demeaning women and more to do with becoming someone else for a while and embodying someone larger than life.

Blackface was created to enforce stereotypes and to make black people seem less worthy of being equal.

Already gone into this in admin, but for the members also..I was not actually comparing blackface to drag here. I used to be of the impression that drag was all your pantomie dame types, making crude jokes and taking the piss out of women, with way exaggreated moveents, makeup, ridiculous false tits, such tht are not about creating a character at all and are just about making people laugh AT women..infact even going so far as to actually single out women to take the piss out of who are currently in the bar. There was also a thread a while back where blackface was referred to as womanface. Seemingly with the member also under the impression that drag was only ever the kind you get in backalley pubs that is kind of undeniably sexist.

I now know that drag is much more than just the sexist stuff. And that anyone can do drag, where before it was only ever men, and sexist ones at that that I saw/knew of.

As I used to come at it from that angle myself, I could see how someone else might. Though the seemingly actually defending blackface by using drag I did not mean to make out I was agreeing with I know from reading back that it looked that way now (and the convo may have moved on too,again.. have replied when I got to this quoted post..like I did earlier with the quoted one)