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   Jerrica makes art (jmakesart@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 05-Oct-2025 08:29:03 JST Jerrica makes art
   I feel like if drag was about "making fun of gender roles" like some claim, then female drag queens would be far more accepted and drag kings would be more popular.
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     ӀɑվӀɑ ɑӀҽ×ɑղժɾօѵղɑ ? (laylaalexandrovna@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 05-Oct-2025 08:29:02 JST ӀɑվӀɑ ɑӀҽ×ɑղժɾօѵղɑ ?

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     @Gabble @jmakesart I remember seeing my first drag shows as a youth visiting Vancouver's gay scene and being like WTF!?!? This is supposed to be entertaining? EW
     
     I also found male strippers to be gross. But the crossdressers take the cake as the grossest possible men in so many ways. They're creepy and unlovely AND unfunny. I can't help but think that there's nothing but hatred for women in it for them.
     
     I can't wait until they start going back into their closets with it. Pathetic.
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     Gabble (gabble@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 05-Oct-2025 08:29:03 JST Gabble

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     @jmakesart It’s ‘making fun of gender roles’ in as much as they think of ‘women’ as ‘a gender role’.

     I have been baffled by people treating drag as something edgy, cool, transgressive. It makes me think of rugby guys dressing up as girls at every opportunity, for every party and every night out, because that’s how cool manly guys bond with other men. It makes me think of every single mixed nerd group having ‘tarts and vicars’ parties that just become ‘tarts’ parties, because all the nerdy men want to wear fishnets and miniskirts with big fake boobs, because they think that’s sexy and so crazy, and look how degenerate I am! It makes me think of every single old comedy TV show which worked in men dressing up as women, because what could be funnier? But also they wanted to play the roles themselves. And it makes me think of traditional pantomimes that grandparents take the children to, with old washed-up soap stars pretending to be Widow Twanky, hilariously still experiencing sexual attraction despite being old and ugly.

     It is so intensely uncool. It’s like if the media kept trying to tell me Morris Dancing was cool and edgy, and I say this as someone who quite likes a bit of Morris Dancing in moderation.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 05-Oct-2025 08:33:10 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @LaylaAlexandrovna @Gabble @jmakesart Back in the day I would occasionally go for a girls' night out and we enjoyed a night with a drag queen and some male strippers. I think I've grown out of it.
     Drag queens seem to have moved from Lily Savage type comics to the Rue Paul sashay sashay types, which don't interest me.
     As for strippers, unless it's a good act I can't be bothered.