BBC drops Drag Race UK

It's ugly and crude and misogynistic, and really hasn't got anything to do with Paul O'Grady or Barry Humphries. Not before time.

*isn't going to be for all of them, apologies.

Gay men aren't a monolith, and don't need telling how to live, love.or express their sexuality. Some play with gender, many don't. So what?

Drag is a celebration and protest.

It's not a celebration of sexual violence. And as if I haven't noticed sexual violence, when I and all of my friends - every woman I've ever met, in fact - have been sexually assaulted. I'm a childhood violence survivor too.

Young gay men know who they are. They aren't 'confused' and have plenty of positive role models - teachers, parents and people in all professions. How they choose to express their sexuality is up to them. Watching a drag queen is going to be for all of them - but it won't harm them.

And again, my main point was how racist it is to compare drag to minstrelsy. Gay men having fun with gender isn't what's oppressing women - it's rape culture, the destruction of our services, and creeping fascism.

No drag queen ever advocated removing my reproductive rights, defended violence against women, or defined me by my genitals. That's Reform.

Nope, a protest at the criminalisation of being gay, and the relentless, violent, ignorant targeting of queer communities which continues today. A fuck-you stand against the orderly daughters, often.

Yep.

Thats fine - just take the piss out of around 50% of the population.

Note the “hilarious” witticism of using the words “pussy” and “snatch” in their pathetic contests. Both vulgar words for female genitalia. That, apparently is celebrating womanhood and tradition.

They had a contestant called "A'Whora" and he doesn't see a problem with that?!!

Hopefully it is an indication of the world continuing to move into the post-woke era.

I doubt the decision was made on moral grounds - it will be that they can't afford it. Fewer and fewer people are paying for TV licences - the BBC is in a financial mess.

Plus they overhyped it

It was always being promoted on iPlayer

It is a form of mockery, which like all mockery can be funny if done well (Lilly , dame edna- both men were funny out of drag) but falls incredibly flat if done by a talentless, crude, lipsyncing oaf (the vast majority of drag queens ).also the sheer monotony of them, appearing in everything....

There's always the 'ooh, it's not mocking women, it's a tribute/for 'feminine men'/all a bit of fun, you joyless harridans!!!' while the terminology includes the hideously misogynistic term 'fishy'.

'Hahahah! Let's laugh about the supposed smell of women's vaginas! So hilarious and edgy!'

At it's core, it's men punching down on women.

This 100%.

I’ve seen today just how many female impersonators really don’t like women, or respect their views and right to dislike drag. It seems if you express an opinion you are, “an ugly, dried up old harridan” or automatically homophobic.

I agree.
It objectifies women, but women who object are brushed aside as spoiling the fun. It isn’t done by people with any real respect for women.

I remember going to the local, rural, gay pub in my late teens and they had a drag act on. He performed a sex act on a very vulnerable local lad for whom it was quite obviously his first sexual encounter. The drag queen thought it was funny. It really wasn't. I think most of us in the pub thought that 'performance' was abusive.

Clearly drag exploits women, but I also think it empowers a certain type of man to ignore boundaries and that is bad for everyone.

Don’t be so bloody stupid

I’m sure a lot of men do enjoy dressing up as women to mock them - how the hell that’s any kind of role model for adolescents who are starting to wonder if they’re gay I have no idea.

Don’t know if you’ve noticed but women have also been raped and murdered a fair bit over the years.

Drag hates women even if it doesn’t know it

Yawn.

It has probably just run its course. I doubt it’s due to a tide of dawning realisation. But good riddance all the same.

Good riddance

It's a protest against all the systemic power women enjoy over men. I see.

Once it may have been a bit daring to have drag queens on the telly. It's now become about as edgy as soggy pan bread, and less funny.

And after it lost the edge, and since it stopped being funny, what was left was just men mocking women with cheap, vindictive digs.

At last.

Off you fuck, you tedious misogynist fucks.

Minstrel shows were part of violent systemic racism. They were vital props (and propaganda) for slavery, depicting Black people as subhuman simpletons incapable of making their own decisions.

Under slavery, Black women were treated as less than animals, raped from cradle to grave by their 'owners', forced through rape to create more and more children until they died, often very young.

Minstrel shows promoted the lie that Black women were promiscuous, stupid and undeserving of any rights.

Comparing any form of minstrel show to drag is repellent. Women do drag, and it is a protest. Drag has always been subversive, and a way for LGBT+ people to express themselves. Try reading some queer history and seeing why.

It is deeply racist to compare drag to minstrel shows. A total denial and
trivialisation of the malice and violence behind the former.

Minstrel shows were part of violent systemic racism. They were vital props (and propaganda) for slavery, depicting Black people as subhuman simpletons incapable of making their own decisions.

Under slavery, Black women were treated as less than animals, raped from cradle to grave by their 'owners', forced through rape to create more and more children until they died, often very young.

Minstrel shows promoted the lie that Black women were promiscuous, stupid and undeserving of any rights.

Comparing any form of minstrel show to drag is repellent. Women do drag, and it is a protest. Drag has always been subversive, and a way for LGBT+ people to express themselves. Try reading some queer history and seeing why.

It is deeply racist to compare drag to minstrel shows. A total denial and
trivialisation of the malice and violence behind the former.

I could never get over how repetitive it was and still is.

I enjoyed it once but after that it soon became very tedious.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/10/dont-sashay-away-the-bbcs-decision-to-cancel-ru-pauls-drag-race-uk-is-sickening-in-all-the-wrong-ways

The Guardian is upset