To think that the success of male comedians online playing eccentric female characters is a true sign of misogyny?

La Voix is apparently going to be playing Miss Hannigan in the stage version Annie next year.
Me and my daughter saw Annie last year. Miss Hannigan was originally going to be played by Paul O'Grady but sadly he passed away. We had a female actress instead - she was from Strictly I think. I can't remember her name right now.
Her performance was ok but it's become traditional for Miss Hannigan to be played by a man and it just makes it funny and silly because it's so over the top. That's the whole point.
Hopefully we can get tickets for the La Voix version.
We also saw Oliver this year. Depending on which group you saw some of the orphans were played by girls. But their characters were boys.

Why did she refuse to watch?

I don't necessarily disagree with you OP but I think it's an 'of its time thing' and tiktok etc will move on to something else as it's a fairly saturated market now.

There are women doing it too and someone of them very successfully.

Kathy Burke as Perry with Harry Enfield as Kevin.

My DD turned 13 and I tried to show her the vid of Kevin becoming a teenager. She refused to watch :-)

Just to say that Melissa McCarthy’s Sean Spicer was the best thing on Saturday Night Live during the Trump first term.

British female comedians have taken some time to catch up, there were so many who only ever got to be the token woman in a male comedy series, or who didn’t seem to go there in terms of playing men even with their own series. SNL women are a lot further ahead.

Oh, so you didn't actually see any successful comedians getting sponsorship deals because of their misogyny?

You just saw some random people doing impressions of women on Tiktok and made up a thread about them becoming successful comedians and getting sponsorship deals?

Its called drag. Its been around for centuries. Have you never heard of it?

And as other PPs have said:
Cissies and Ada 😀 absolute unbeatable genius 🥰😍

But you don't mind it when women (like the ones I've given multiple examples of and you now claim to know despite saying before you didn't see content the other way round) play daft men and "make it big"?
I don't think you every really know what you're upset about tbh.

I can't get worked up about it. Men have been portraying female characters for hundreds of years, definitely since Shakespeare's time. Since La Voix's appearance on Strictly, I've learned a lot about Chris and his background, he's done drama courses, is a trained make up artist and is a really good vocalist. La Voix is just a character he's created. Drag doesn't strike me as misogynist at all, it's just performers portraying a character.

You must be watching them if they keep coming up on your feed - that’s how the algorithm works. I suggest you choose more edifying content more regularly.

Also there's a woman called Veronika Mirgova- also v big on tik tok and insta - who does male characters, like a characature of a "chavvy"/road man young man. I don't find her that funny but it sounds like similar to what you're watching but rules reversed

Do you mean the "middle class white woman" parodies? Some make me smirk but most are just stupid and unoriginal.

What really pisses me off though (and I didnt know whether to post this tbh) is the "white women be like..." skits by black men. Generally they are mildly offensive eg how all white women look ridiculous wearing wigs haha look at how none of them cut the lace cotrectly, arent white women stupid. If I were to post something about all black women doing x, I would quite rightly be hung drawn and quartered.

Yes, black women experience racism every day (wtf are dark skin plasters more expensive than pink ones?) but it doesnt make it acceptable for others to experience racism even to a lesser degree.

Any drag actually too

Weird to define "success" as sponsorship deals on tik tok. There are lots of actual female comedians on the actual telly and touring big venues who do this well. You might be spending too much time on tiktok getting upset.

But if you're judging success by social media alone, check out Laura Ramoso who I mentioned above (plays her Italian dad) she has 1.4 million tiktok followers.

Imogen Andrews (British) has 1/2 million tiktok followers and sometimes plays a man including a recurring male character who is bad at sex.

Expand your comedy horizons beyond your FYP 😂

Seems like a lot of people are going 'whatever are you talking about, in the 90s French and Saunders had that one where they were men and also there's Kathy Burke', OP - but I know what you mean. There are a lot of men doing 'girl who lost her vape', 'mum when you come home for Christmas' stuff on Instgram and TikTok, and I agree that it all positions women, and especially often older women, seem to be the butt of the jokes more than men do.

And women do it too - 'Your Boomer Mom' etc - but I haven't seen versions where women do 'Your Stupid Old Dad' type reels.

So I agree, basically.

they arent playing women really, they are taking the piss out of women.

You might not like it that they are shining a light on some of the daft things women do, but these things go both ways and plenty out there doing exactly same by women taking taking piss out of men.

That not so smug now women, cant remember her name does them a fair bit.

Abolsutely loads of women do this little skits on insta & tiktok which are them dressing up as and taking the piss out of their husbands. No idea how many of them have sponsorships etc maybe they just arent as funny/successful

So by that logic, Kathy Burke playing a teenage boy is classed as misandry then?

Give your head a wobble and froth over something else pls.

You don’t need to TRY to see misogyny in everything it IS in everything because it’s everywhere.
You can choose to ignore it if you want to pretend it’s not.

I was infuriated by this and it was one of the things (probably the main one) that took away some of the pleasure of watching the show. The entire book is about women, strong women making their way in the world despite the absent man in their life. I'm still cross about it a year later!

It was meant to be played by a woman. It was only that in rehearsal Brendan played Mrs Brown as they hadn’t cast a woman yet and they couldn’t find anyone who played it as well so he did it.