Ru Paul's hijabi Drag Race - the ultimate insult?

What a Stan - as in Eminem? Ohhhhhhh, stalkery...

Drag Race stans are almost as annoying as Radiohead stans. You will share their love for their show or else!

Some think that drag is disrespectful to woman. Doesn’t matter how they dress up.

He seems to be trying to recreate the image that came out a few years back to represent the female Pro-democracy demonstrators after there were a few shootings/murders at student rallies. Yes there are loads of Iranians in Canada - why would Trumps US flight ban affect his family in Canada?

It’s like watching Miss World ‘I want to end world hunger’. He is doing what Madonna did back in the day wearing a crucifix.

Op if you actually watched the show you'd realise it was a really sensitive and emotional tribute to the contestant's own heritage.
He acknowledges the dilemma and difficulty of being gay in Iran etc, but also it's about his family's experiences in the us/Canada and how they've been treated.
Why always assume the worst of people?
There was nothing disrespectful towards women at all.

There are nuns. There's one called Aoife who's obsessed with St Trinians.

If you watched a clip of this you would know the person is actually Canadian with Iranian heritage. The challenge was stars and stripes to celebrate being American and they did this to highlight the impact of the Muslim travel ban Trump brought in and the impact its had on his family. He states he is not himself religious as its a complex issue having been brought up in a Muslim family but also being gay. He acknowledges the middle easts issues in regards to treatment of women, gay and trans, and the American issues with current politics and stereotyping.

I look forward to the day when all the contestants in Ru Paul's Drag Race are wearing burkas. Black ones.

It’s just playing at dress up. There is a ‘thing’ for being a trans women ‘Muslim wife’ - I fell across that on twitter at the weekend. I think my eyes have just managed to retreat into their sockets. I can only assume there are nuns too...

My reaction was basically just "oh FFS".

I’ll tell my family then. They are Iranian.

Lordfrontpaw, I'm pretty sure millions of Iranians would beg to differ.

Muslim heritage belongs to anyone who is Muslim, which millions of Iranians are. It's a religion, not mobile standan ethnic group. Arab or Persian heritage belongs to those respective cultures / countries / groups. You could be, for instance, a Zoroastrian Persian, or a Muslim Italian, but you couldn't be a Muslim Zoroastrian.

I think you have your categories crosslinked.

As for the post itself, I think, yes, very insulting. Playing irrelevant dress up for kicks using an instrument of misery. There's no louder way to say We Don't Care.

An Iranian has Persian heritage - not Muslim. Islam comes from the Arab world - Iranians are not Arabs. So insulting on quite a few levels...

www.autostraddle.com/a-muslim-rupaul-at-the-dawn-of-islam-tuwais-and-the-mukhannathun-198612/ This on autostraddle, so is not necessarily the kind of source we all particularly enjoy here on FWR, but I genuinely find it an interesting piece of writing.
It's written by someone from a Muslim background who identifies as trans.
It talks a bit about crossdressing and feminine men in the middle east a very long time ago.
I feel like the guy on Drag Race is not the first to wear a headscarf and dress in a feminine way.

Hmm.
From your thread title I was thinking it would be more offensive than it actually was.

A one-off from one person with Muslim heritage isn't what i was expecting.
I was thinking maybe like a whole series using the title 'hijabi' which would be more inflammatory.
Partly because it implies, to me at least, someone female wearing hijab as an act of worship.

I can't get as exercised about the link, but the fact the guardian is probably jumping around with glee at so many protected characteristics converging is somewhat unsatisfactory.