Aibu to not like drag Queens?

[Draggedalong1]

And why don’t I? To me there is something intimidating and scary in the make up, and harsh glamour, parodied until it’s ugly and I think, aggressive. I remember going to drag shows long again in the 90s and they seemed to be a bit of fun and almost innocent compared to whatever it is about ru Paul et al. Nothing wrong with a bit of dame Edna from what I remember as a kid. What’s the reasoning behind this new style I wonder, and aibu?

YANBU, they are a grotesque mockery of womanhood.

I love drag. Several of my friends are drag artists.
But I feel the way you described , about clowns! 😆 so each to their own.

All apart from Lily Savage

You're going to get loads of people on here agreeing with you and calling it womanface. MN hates them.

@slashlover

You're going to get loads of people on here agreeing with you and calling it womanface. MN hates them.

Well, they're not wrong, are they?

There was a time Al Jolson was popular for doing black face.
Drag is woman face and one day I hope it'll be as offensive as black face is now.

YANBU

Dressing up in extremely sexualised costumes and mimicking exaggerated misogynistic stereotypes is offensive. Blackface is offensive, and so is womanface.

It’s sexual fetish made public. Aggressive, distasteful, demeaning to actual women.

@BalladOfBarryAndFreda

YANBU, they are a grotesque mockery of womanhood.

Personally, I think things like Mrs Brown's Boys are worse.

I neither like nor dislike drag. I think it's so "Pantomime" and OTT that it is distanced from actual womanhood.

They are disgusting and offensive. How this is allowed but black-face isn’t I do not know. Oh yes, I do. Misogyny isn’t a hate crime when everything else is. Women are easy targets and we are supposed to laugh along with this mockery or be accused of being uptight and humourless.

If you don't like drag shows nothing is forcing you to watch them...

I find drag wonderful. Live and let live.

I hate them and I hate the way the bbc is pushing them constantly.

Depends who you've seen. Some I find exaggerated stereotypes of women, others I admire their creativity and artistry.

I had a very interesting conversation with a young person (20s) recently that a lot of drag queens these days are actually parodies of transwomen, not of women - that it's actually 'transwomanface' they're putting on.

I'm still working that one through in my head.

I thought it was just me, I don’t like them. Misogynistic piss take of women.

It is grim - I am at a loss to understand why it is so popular.

Of course you are NBU to dislike something. I don't like jazz music. Different people like different things.🤷‍♀️

@AnyFucker

It’s sexual fetish made public. Aggressive, distasteful, demeaning to actual women.

Absolutely this.

I dislike it intensely and find it quite creepy and it makes me cringe. I have the same reaction towards pantomime dames and clowns.

I don't particularly like them but if it makes them happy then i don't see the issue.

I hate them and some of their names are so offensive to women.

YANBU drag is awful, as is Mrs Brown’s Boys, as are pantomime dames (couldn’t have a woman playing a funny part!).

Drag in particular though as it’s so sexualised, refers to women as fish and is all round derogatory and shitty.

There's so many different things going on under the drag umbrella these days.
Some of it I do find a grotesque caricature, but some of it I love. There was a brilliant dame at the panto the other day, I think it's great to see young men embracing heels and eyeshadow on Insta. I don't like it when birth, Women's medical conditions etc are ridiculed.

I agree op.
Why participate in essentially demeaning women. I don't get at all why I should go along with it.

They scare me a little too 😬 the make up, wigs and big dresses.

Tbh…..panto scares me a little too.

I don’t mind it but don’t love it, I think it’s because as a kid the drag women with the overdone makeup was always the villain in the pantomimes