Christian writer on drag: 'men portraying women as a sex clowns'

@DeanElderberry I sincerely hope that's the case.

not all of us, @mathanxiety, not all of us

And I'd like to add, Irish women are obviously kept firmly in their place, their interests ignored. Plus ca change...

Excellent article - thank you, OP.

The Irish have exchanged one dogma for another.

The team allegiance has changed but it's the same sport, to make an Olympic analogy. "Shut up, I am right and you are an [insert Latin noun] phobe/ heretic and either way you're going straight to hell" is the name of the game.

I think the wholesale acceptance of gender ideology by the Irish media is also a legacy of people being trained to be conformist when young. Not a universal Irish Catholic experience btw, some of us were raised to be stroppy and argue things out. I wonder is it a class thing? Mercy girls and Brothers boys fighting back back against authority, Sacred Heart and Spiritan pupils basking in a sense of effortless social superiority because they toe the line.

Thanks for this article, it'll help me express my feelings about drag more simply and clearly. I'll be sharing it.
I can't help but compare this writer with another being discussed recently.

I really enjoyed that article - the part where it describes 70s sexism such as seaside postcards and Carry On films having lived on in drag was a very apt observation and gave me something to think about. I also very much understand the reference made to the trope of the ex-Catholic joining a cult - I grew up in theocratic, Catholic-church dominated Ireland and have seen a lot of disillusioned devout Irish Catholics joining cults, or becoming extremely involved in identiarianism, as a reaction to the exposure of scandals in the Irish Catholic Church.

Excellent article, thank you. I've had similar discussions (not nearly so eloquent) with many of my fellow Christians, some of whom were very much of the opinion of the progressive Christians quoted here, so it's really good to read such a clearly put piece on the issue.

I loathe Edna Everage. Whatever Humphries might claim, he was always mocking women with that character, whether the original "Moonee Ponds housewife" version or the later iteration. It was always punching down, mocking women in particular, not Australian society in general. He didn't need to get into drag if that was what he wanted to do.

A good article. Apart from anything else it pointed out that a parody of the Last Supper (la Cene) was intended as 'cene' is a pun on 'Seine'. The entire thing was unacceptable in so many ways. And what was Smurf-Dionysius doing there? Everyone on display was a man pretending to be a woman - which maybe fits with the IOC saying it is entirely okay for a man (XY chromosomes) to batter women boxers?
No wonder the Allfather (Zeus, Wotan) peed on it all.

I dunno, I used to love old school drag with Edna everage and Lilly savage. It’s gotten weird but it wasn’t always nuts like everything is now

The bit about drag being men as sex clowns really hit home. Drag revolts me. Its a revulsion that comes from deep inside, nauseating and deeply troubling. I can see clearly how much drag artists truly despise women. It's a total mystery to me why some women don't see it.

Great article, thanks. Ive always had quite a visceral dislike of drag but struggled to articulate quite why - this sets it out very clearly. I'm not religious but I found the Christian perspective really interesting too.

Amongst all the other stuff I'm glad he torpedoes the lie that the resemblance to the last supper was a coincidence that the MSN has allowed to go completely unchallenged.

It was indeed - I am only culturally Christian so have no contact with various lines of thought in the denominations about the subject.

Thanks for that OP - a really well written well informed well argued article. The references to Ru Paul’s drag show and show contestant quotes underlined the hatred of women and punching down very eloquently

Excellent article and I completely agree with him.

I am neither a Christian nor a drag critic but this is an excellent piece of writing, very thoughtful and incisive, so thank you for sharing

Wholeheartedly agree. Anyone trying to get the church on trend is destined for failure imo. People want spirituality, depth not a dumbed-down show.

Excellent article and looks like a fantastic blog, thanks for sharing I look forward to having the time to dig in!