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.

Hasn’t school gone back?

No I was questioning the person who implied women who do do the makeup/hair/revealing clothes are lesser women. You’ve misunderstood.
I don’t see drag as mimicking women as women aren’t like that as we all know. If anything they are mimicking a stereotype of gender

If anything they are mimicking a stereotype of gender

So why not mimic a stereotype of maleness? Why take the piss out of women?

Because that’s not glamorous and fabulous.

And the eternal question- why don’t women dress up as Schwarzenegger and make jokes about how smelly dicks are?

Yep and not just as him but a grotesque caricature.

Because doing that to other groups of people isn’t problematic at all

Yep. I bet the smegma gags would be hilarious. Men, in particular, would be rolling in the aisles.

Oh, and the impotence material.....

Vogue Men could be filled with women doing this no problem.

Men, in particular, would be rolling in the aisles

Yes, could you imagine? Oh no wait, I can't!

I'm trying to imagine several women all dressed up and taking on the persona of a dim-witted, beefcake, sexist, neanderthal type bloke going on Good Morning Britain to talk about their 'self expression' and Piers Morgan giggling along and telling them how awesome they are... Interesting

So men have to act manly, even though they don’t want to?

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?

I don't know any drag queens who claim drag is their natural state; you appear to be confusing drag artists and transgender people.

Drag is a costume, a character, a form of entertainment. They don't go to an interview dressed like that any more than someone involved in am dram would turn up to a job interview dressed as their character, or any more than a ballet dancer pirouettes around the aisles of Tesco.

So men have to act manly, even though they don’t want to?

They could just stop acting entirely? Unless they are actual actors.

“So men have to act manly, even though they don’t want to?“
NOOOOO! That’s the point! They should be able to be as traditionally “masculine” or “feminine” as they want without having to pretend to be women. This is one of the ways that men are victims of the patriarchy and of toxic masculinity.

I would say that John Maclean is a good example of a man who breaks gender stereotypes and has an entertaining 'persona' which is artistic and funny, without exaggerating everything to the point that it takes the piss out of women. He is still very much a man, despite the hair, the makeup and the dresses.

So men have to act manly even if they don't want to?
Exactly.
Sounds very 1950s to me.
Men shouldn't act feminine, have to be masculine and wear manly clothes.
To say some posters are all for the breaking of gender stereotypes there's some proper "back in your box" type comments here.
Men dress like men and women dress like women. Wow, OK

So women - dressing like a woman means wear what you like as you are a woman

Man - never wear a dress, skirt etc as it's woman face to do so, you must stick to trousers, shirts, some kind of conservative manly dress. As it's manly enough just if you're a gay man, you can be gay but has to be man clothes.
Something like that

Oh FFS, you can act 'feminine' without parodying women by taking aspects that society often sees as negative and exaggerating them to the max.

It's really not rocket science!

As NottonightJosepheen 'feminine' men are manly by virtue of being men.

People can dress how they like it’s the impersonation, parody and distortion that is the issue.

Same as if it was done to another group of people.

That society often sees as negative
Such as?
Do you mean like high heels, lots of make up, big hair, plunging dresses, dancing seductively type thing?
If so, why are they negative?