Drag practice: more authentic that actually being a woman?

Just reread my post Zebra. It sounds as though it was directed at you, but I posted before reading everyone's responses.

I meant that it doesn't matter how someone performs femininity, you either are a woman or not. A woman does not have to perform to be a woman, they just are.

are you seriously saying you've never seen the large amount of posts on here from posters who never wear dresses/ skirts/ make- up/ nail varnish/ tights / heels etc. etc ? It's a badge of honour trotted out on every thread discussing clothes and appearance.

Why do you think it's a 'badge of honour'? I've sometimes posted stuff like that, but it's not a 'badge of honour', just a statement of fact.

Do you have to "wear dresses/ skirts/ make- up/ nail varnish/ tights / heels etc. etc ?" to be feminine?

Do we? I myself am very feminine. I think what we hate is that women are pressurised to perform femininit

Oh come off it - are you seriously saying you've never seen the large amount of posts on here from posters who never wear dresses/ skirts/ make- up/ nail varnish/ tights / heels etc. etc ? It's a badge of honour trotted out on every thread discussing clothes and appearance.

Being feminine does not make a woman. Be as feminine as you want but it does not make a woman. Clothes, make up or acting does not make a woman.

Regardless, drag acts are definitely not more feminine than women - they are an outlandish and (IMO) insulting exaggeration of femininity - pantomime dames combined with a pornified idea of what a woman is.

given so many of you post frequently about how much you hate and avoid anything feminine.

Do we? I myself am very feminine. I think what we hate is that women are pressurised to perform femininity.

Men are better at performing femininity than women

I'm not sure why you (general you) are so upset by that given so many of you post frequently about how much you hate and avoid anything feminine.

I think that falls under the newly added 15th rule of misogyny: Men are better at performing femininity than women are because they invented it and it gives them a boner.

If I wear make-up or high heels or tights I feel like I'm in drag.
And I'm whatever a female-woman is currently allowed to be called.

So I'm not sure what this means or what authentically channelling femininity is.

in which to channel femininity is more authentic than being a woman.'
My jaw dropped

I’m not sure why, because this is perfectly true

(Depending on what you think a woman is! If woman = external appearance and mannerisms then of course you can do better than ‘female picking up the weekly shopping in Tesco.’ This of course neatly dovetails with why some transitions go fir the porn star look.)

Yes of course drag acts are more authentically female than real women, OP. Just as blackface minstrel acts are more authentic than real black people. Oh, wait....