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Drag on BBC

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Ariana12 · 27/12/2024 10:13

Is anyone else moticing the Beeb obsession with drag? Can anyone explain it? I used to enjoy drag acts in the old gentle days but how did it all become so crude? And why is it de rigeur fot our kids to know all about the sexualised version??

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AstonsGerbil · 27/12/2024 11:45

And a drag queen won the strictly Christmas special this year too. Referred to as she/her. It's just insulting.

Bixaweet · 27/12/2024 11:42

My theory is that the BBC produces too much Drag Race, the contestants then get picked up by agencies after the show ends, and then they proliferate other BBC series. Maybe there's also something in their contracts that means the BBC gets money from future appearances, too, which happens on other reality series. ITV won't touch them because Drag Race is a BBC show, so all the drag contestants are restricted to the BBC, which is why they turn up on everything on everything BBC, which in turn promotes Drag Race and gives the entire nation drag fatigue, and the whole cycle repeats with every new series. And obviously none of the performers are recognisable outside of drag in the way say Paul O'Grady was, so they always have to appear in drag instead of doing something else as themselves.

Basically there are too many Drag Race contestants and the BBC doesn't know what to do with them and has gone with the old scattergun approach (to appeal to younger viewers?)

If you want this nonsense to end, Drag Race has to go first.

Ameliasvocalfry · 27/12/2024 11:30

Those articles are very enlightening, thank you for linking to them @MrsOvertonsWindow and @lcakethereforeIam

The BBC's drag obsession is pretty obvious and I can see why now. My family play 'hunt the drag queen story' on the BBC news website, we usually don't have to look very far Hmm

KatyaKabanova · 27/12/2024 11:22

MrsOvertonsWindow · 27/12/2024 11:19

It does suggest an ingrained misogyny at the BBC that there's so little critical thinking about grotesque over sexualised representations of women. But then the BBC did air the Black and White minstrels for many years so presumably haven't intellectually evolved since then?

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I would agree, and your comparison is apt.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 27/12/2024 11:19

KatyaKabanova · 27/12/2024 11:07

Because they obviously think that men are more entertaining as women than actual women are.

It does suggest an ingrained misogyny at the BBC that there's so little critical thinking about grotesque over sexualised representations of women. But then the BBC did air the Black and White minstrels for many years so presumably haven't intellectually evolved since then?

KatyaKabanova · 27/12/2024 11:07

Because they obviously think that men are more entertaining as women than actual women are.

Pamosonic · 27/12/2024 11:05

It's box ticking isn't it.

kiwiane · 27/12/2024 10:24

I find it really off-putting - I can no longer separate drag from the Trans stuff and takeover of female only spaces.