Why is drag so popular now?

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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.

As I say not seen it

Assume is similar idea to les Dawson 2 Ronnies etc. Ie man dressing as woman is funny in and of itself. It's panto dame thing. Man sending up women for laughs.
Hardly new.

It’s a parody of an Irish matriarch. Presumably it’s racist too?

Never heard of twopence for a vagina! Two pence means getting your two pence in where I come from, like getting your opinion in. Is my username offensive too now.

Mrs Browns offensive to women now?

Nobody has said that.

You know, if I didn’t know better, I would think that there was some deliberate misunderstanding going on. The point about Mrs Brown is that it is very unlikely that a woman of that age would get the lead I. A prime time role. So it must be extra funny because the character is played by a man. For all I know it is- it’s a comedy that I don’t get even slightly. I wouldn’t get it if it was played by a woman either, though

I don’t get the extreme make up and faces. The one here popped up on my twitter feed. I assume the face is like that partly because in real life they have a beard? (There are lots of photos of a young man with a beard on their account.)

Tuppence is slang for vagina.

If a wealthy middle class actor plays the role of a poor, homeless person in a comedy, is this not along the same lines?

I'm not trying to prove a point or anything, I'm genuinely curious.

I am surprised there wasn’t uproar about Suranne Jones, a straight woman, playing Ann Lister.

Your not really.

I can’t believe I types ‘your’ and not ‘you’re’. Hang my head...

For me the issue is when it’s done to take the piss, and when there’s a perfectly good/better female equivalent. Same as with Scarlett Johansson and Ghost in the Machine- loads of fab Asian actresses who could have been brilliant and an accurate representation of the manga, so why chose a white woman?

That said, it’s a known issue in acting circles- that acting is increasingly white and middle class.

If a wealthy middle class actor plays the role of a poor, homeless person in a comedy, is this not along the same lines

No, unless they were ridiculing or mocking the homeless character/the fact of homelessness in some way (which would be down to the scriptwriter/producer, but would also reflect pretty badly on the actor and I can't imagine any actor would touch it).

Molto did you read my post about Mrs. Brown. The man who plays the character created her. The joke at the heart of the show is that she’s played by a man. The creator’s wife plays his daughter.

OMG at the tuppence
When in doubt, read things into usernames FFS lol
MN never ceases to be epic.

I assumed that Tuppence was a nod to the subject too. I thought it was funny.

I have honestly never heard the phrase before but how apt

It is a proper drag name, good double entendre.

I assumed it was deliberate! How funny.

Well now women can be drag Queens you can have a crack yourself, the name is Better than lots of them 😁

(not joking I thought it was really clever you should have taken credit!)

I don’t get the extreme make up and faces.

It's part of the artform - it's a costume, just like any other actor or performer might wear. They're not trying to 'pass' as women, because everyone knows they're men in every other area of their life. Female drag queens dress up in a similar manner (Holestar springs to mind as a female drag queen).

Mrs Browns offensive to women now?

Nobody has said that

I will, I think the main character is based around taking the piss out of older women. And it's also offensively shite, old fashioned in a shit way that should have disappeared in the 80s at the latest.

I cannot stand Mrs Browns! He is the most unfunny man I have ever seen ... as soon as he comes on I change channels.

This is one of my fav old movies with men in drag.

Mrs Browns Boys is shit. Just saying.
The post about women in Essex was in response to me.
I asked where women dressed like drag queens as I have never seen women look and act like that ( real women that is).
The reply was Essex women do and have I never been to Essex.
No I haven’t been on a night out in Essex but I’m pretty certain that the women there do not look like the twats who parody them.

You also seem to imply that a woman who is a woman and possess a woman’s body, should not show any of her body off, otherwise she is acting ‘provocatively’.
Do you apply the same mantra to men?
I’m currently on holiday.
Sat in a swimming costume. Am I acting provocatively for daring to wear something which shows off my female body?

I’m still waiting for a reply to my question for the advocates of drag;
What constitutes ‘ provocative’ and explain fully how a woman acting provocatively is different to a man acting provocatively.

Also. And the question.
If drag queens are merely being who they are and drag is there natural state ( otherwise why exactly are they doing it?) why do they not dress like that when they go for an interview?
Or at work?
Or in general?
You can’t have it all ways.
It either is who you naturally feel you are or you are doing it on purpose and the purpose is to what exactly?

Oh yes the purpose is to mock and take the piss out of a minority section of society.
That minority being women and girls,
So which is it.

Anecdotal of course, but the few drag artists I have known have been really quite aggressive to women