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.

Either derailing or an unfortunate reading comprehension problem. Most likely the former, given the patient explanations by several others of what was meant in easily accessible terminology.

I can’t help thinking of centaurs when I see Billy Porter in that amazing dress.
As you were.

Just reached the end of the thread -that was long.
Anyway, yes I agree if men want to wear dresses, makeup and high heals then they should go ahead. The moment they start prentending to be women for laughs and taking the piss out of us then it becomes offensive.
There is always a fine line in comedy between offensive and funny. Drag crosses it for me.

Propertyofhood are you a northern woman because I am and I see it every weekend.

@howwudufeel I'm a northern woman but I've lived all over the country. It's not just northern women who like to dress up on a Saturday, just as Essex women don't live up to the hackneyed stereotype mentioned earlier.

Can we get over ALL these stereotypes, please?

Men in drag has nothing whatsoever to do with women's sexuality, femininity or what they wear on a fucking night out.

It isn’t a stereotype in the strictest sense. It is nothing that anyone should be ashamed or embarrassed about either.
I too have lived in different parts of the county and I have always found northern women like to let their hair down more than anywhere else I have ever lived.

Which is nothing whatsoever to do with men parodying women

I too have lived in different parts of the county and I have always found northern women like to let their hair down more than anywhere else I have ever lived.

Me too. And I still know that what women actually do and how they do it is nothing whatsoever to do with drag.

They show their cleavage, wear their hair big, heels and a lot of make-up. Which is not a bad thing.

“They show their cleavage, wear their hair big, heels and a lot of make-up. Which is not a bad thing.“

No, it’s not a bad thing. Did anyone say it was? I remain confused. All I know is that none of the drag defenders have addressed the parody, mocking, denigrating narrative that runs through drag.

I don’t feel mocked by drag queens. Clearly others agree with me.

@howwudufeel what has how women dress on a night out, wherever they are in the country, got to do with drag queens anyway?

This isn't about how women dress. It's about how men grotesquely parodying women dress. There's absolutely no connection between the two.

Drag isn't denigrating femininity though...it's celebrating femininity.
Seriously? I find some drag vaguely funny, but I don't think it has anything to do with celebrating feminity! Or at least only a grotesque, exaggerated form. It's a form of entertainment, like clowns.

And comparing drag to blackface is quite valid. Uncomfortable maybe, but how is parodying women any better than parodying black people?

My comments about how some women dress was in response to a post by Propertyofhood who said women are denigrated for wearing heels, big hair etc. I don’t see that where I live to be honest.

I too have lived in different parts of the county and I have always found northern women like to let their hair down more than anywhere else I have ever lived.

What are you on about?

My comments about how some women dress was in response to a post by Propertyofhood who said women are denigrated for wearing heels, big hair etc. I don’t see that where I live to be honest.

I have heard plenty of stereotyping insulting comments about women, from all over the country not just the North () and what they wear, how the look, how they act on a night out.

In fact, when a woman wears a lot of makeup, has big hair etc one of those rather ironic insults is that 'she looks like a man in drag'.

What do you mean what am I on about? I notice that you and others say this a lot and whilst you obviously think it’s a great way to belittle other people it is rather boring.

Someone on Facebook was just talking about a contestant on RPDR called Cheryl Hole. Do the drag supporters here want to tell me how that name - or the way this person looks - isn't something women should be offended/outraged by? How does a man reducing women to our sexual organs celebrate femininity, precisely?

Not offended at all.

Cheryl Hole

C Hole. Not, not offensive in any way.

It's weird how so many take names that are in themselves slang for women's genitals.

Autogynophilia.

Sissification. Sexual kicks.

They seem to hate women.

Cheryl Hole.

So totally celebrating women.

Not offended at all

Why not?

How can you not be offended by a drag queen called Cheryl Hole??