Why is drag so popular now?

[Nothingcomesforfree]

Genuine question. I have seen lots of posts on a Facebook this morning about attending some drag queen event. Mostly women and several bringing their teens ( both sexes)

It seems really popular but I have no idea why or what people going get out of it? Is it comedic or fashion or something else.

Don’t forget varicose veins (more common in women), menopause, pmt...

We all have a line we won’t cross. Watching people get murdered in real life and watching a bloke in a frock sing I Am What I Am are on different sides of my particular line...

Yes that is why I used it as a rhetorical device to see if you could explain where your own personal line is.

It only works as being offensive to me if you find women's sexuality/femininity something to get offended about

You think that those who find drag distasteful have a problem with women's sexuality/femininity?

I consider myself to be a reasonably moral person so my ‘line’ would be around the same point as most ordinary people I suppose.

I consider myself to be a reasonably moral person so my ‘line’ would be around the same point as most ordinary people I suppose

Which is???

Like how you've put women in italics there. Telling. As in maybe you see it as offensive because you have a problem with men dressing up and showing any signs of femininity? Not femininity itself.
I don't. If they want to that's up to them. Which is where we differ presumably.

RosesAndRaindrops
Unfortunately you like me have wandered into this thread not realising this is yet another thread about women losing their minds because a bloke puts on a dress.
No one is actually interested in views about drag it’s just yet another anti trans thread (yawn).

Do you want a diagram sackrifice!

Aaaargh no ffs don't mention the T word lol

Like how you've put women in italics there. Telling.

It is in italics because we are not talking about womens' sexuality. We are talking about men parodying women.

This is nothing to do with women's sexuality or femininity.

So women's sexuality is nothing to do with the way they look?

I'd say it plays a part.

So women's sexuality is nothing to do with the way they look?

If thats what you think sexy women look like then there is no hope really.

No idea why it’s such a big thing at the moment. It seems to be a trend. Even our local library has advertised a regular story time session for pre-schoolers where the person reading the story is always a ‘pantomime dame’. My 13 yr old DS questioned why they couldn’t just have a regular man or woman reading the stories - why the need for a bloke to dress up as a caricature of a woman? I don’t like it.

If thats what you think sexy women look like then there is no hope really

I said it can play a part. Looks, that is.
I didn't say it was the be all and end all of sexy women did I?

I've got no problem with a man wearing a dress.

I've got a problem with men parodying women.

Drag isn't denigrating femininity though...it's celebrating femininity.

Haha really?
Lily Savage
Dame Edna

I remember watching him/her as a child

Sack: This is nothing to do with women's sexuality or femininity.

Noooo... nothing about sexuality or femininity here!!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_RPpicb6ArY

What about women dressing as men?

EmmaGrundyForPM agree!

sack I've taken your quote out of context sorry!
Drag takes the piss out of women. Their looks, their mannerisms, their sexuality. It's vile.

Unfortunately you like me have wandered into this thread not realising this is yet another thread about women losing their minds because a bloke puts on a dress.

No its not? Have you not read the thread?

Anyway, seeing as you are back, do you care to answer any of the responses to your rather offensive assertions about 'strong, misbehaving women' being the ones who do their hair bigger and wear their heels higher or whatever cliche it was that you were rolling out?

And explain a bit further how drag 'celebrates' women?

So being able to name ONE comedy act ie F &S , is supposed to prove a point.

No it doesn 't.
Keep going list hundreds more. Even then it will never be the same.
Men are not an oppressed class.
Women are.
Drag is not funny.
No more funny or acceptable than me dressing up with a fake cock out, fake hairy chest, bald head, beer belly calling myself I fuck kiddies and imitating a typical man. Perving after children shouting "come and suck on this girl."
Bloody hilarious isn't it?
Oh I could swing around a pole with my fake cock out too,scratching my fake balls and then do a song and dance routine.
Hilarious and entertaining.
Now imagine that in every high street.
Imagine that on tv.
I fuck kiddies is on prime time tv, he's a right laugh.
It's only comedy and self expression so don't get offended.

Imagine it at kids story time at the library!