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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

I find this one genuinely confusing I have to say. Loosely, I don't think there's anything wrong with drag. Some of it veers quite clearly into an uncomfortable level of misogyny BUT at it's core... it's an act, it's entertainment, and not everyone has to like or agree with a form of entertainment for it to be acceptable. In that sense, there's no issue with drag.

What's confusing me here is... drag, surely, IS just an activity? It's always been the case that drag is traditionally men (usually gay men) caricaturing/playing women in a very exaggerated and hyperbolic way. Sometimes sexualised, sometimes not, but that's not massively relevant in adult entertainment so whatever. My point is that it's an act, like being a singer or a comedian. It has little (if anything) to do with trans and TRADITIONALLY was not about gender identity - most drag queens have been quite clear on being gay males. Drag is something one does, not something one is.

So where does "accepted and integrated into general society" come into it? Being a drag queen isn't an "identity"? Have you ever heard someone talk about being "accepted and integrated" as a comedian, actor or singer?

If it's gone that way it's very recent and clearly all wrapped up in the also-very-recent obsession with "group identity" that's plaguing every corner of sociology.

Even Rupaul came out and said something to that effect originally but he had to back track when the mob came for him

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/6...ew-controversy