To wonder why drag queens have to do those stupid facial expressions

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The stupid 'sultry' porno face. Why do they do it?

Interested to see what the people who are pearl clutching think of Kings like Landon Cider?

If you watch some Stanley Baxter or Dick Emery sketches from the 70s there is nothing remotely porny about them. It’s just acting and characterisation.

I thought this thread was about Liz Truss’s stupid gurning and shite impression of Margaret Thatcher.

Yay, another drag queen thread. It's been what, a week or so since the last one?
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See I don't feel offended by drag. when I look at Bimini Bon boulash for example walking the runway at fashion week in Paris I don't see her in anyway doing anything wrong to women
But I enjoy RPDR so I'm possibly not the one to comment

Same

Ah, dismissing women who are discussing misogyny as 'pearl clutchers'. How novel.

As a PP said, one (or even a handful) of male impersonators doesn't negate all the harmful parodies of womanhood drag queens portray. And it's not the same thing - DQs are punching down and ridiculing the oppressed group. DKs are not.

DQs are punching down and ridiculing the oppressed group
Well, that's a matter of opinion, not fact.
Mine is that they are just expressing themselves, if that means dressing up in high heels, lots of make up, short sparkly dresses etc, so what?
Doesn't threaten me in any way, each to their own.
I like watching Drag Race, listening to some of their stories as they're in the Werk Room explains more, and can make you get an insight into their lives

Exactly.

Drag queens are escaped pantomime dames in my opinion and that is one genre of entertainment that I'd love to see the back of.

I love pantomime and panto dames, have been going since I was a kid and it's still family tradition for us to go yearly now!
Just because you don't like it, why would you like to "see the back of it?"
Just don't go to pantomimes instead of wanting to take it away from others because you don't like it.

Oh NO you DON'T ! 😁

@vera99 😁

🤣 If you say so

@Ladybrrrd

Comparing it to blackface is just disgusting. It is a marginalized group expressing themselves. A middle finger from an oppressed class to society.

This, well said

If you take the posts in support of drag you see an awkward similarity with what black face supporters were saying back in the 70s.

If you don't like it don't look.
I find it funny so you have no right to be offended.
It's just for laughs stop being hysterical.
It's inviting black people to laugh at the white man.
They are just expressing themselves.
They aren't doing anything wrong to black people.
It's origins are rooted in history so .... that makes it ok apparently.

Dressing up in high heels etc - great, crack on. Why pretend to be a woman while doing it though?

Just don't go to pantomimes instead of wanting to take it away from others because you don't like it.

I agree.

A lot of people criticise drag because they just don't get it. Maybe they're scared of clowns at the circus too and never got over that childhood fear.

I fully support the march of horses who will be protesting outside theatres with signs and banners in the uk protesting about how offensive it is to have pantomime horses on stage. It's an offence to the equine community. Horse Face, that's what it is.

I've heard that cows will leave their fields and show their solidarity against pantomime cows too. It's an offence against the bovine community. Cow Face, that's what it is.

I'm quite glad though that no matter how much makeup they slap on, how bitchy they attempt to be, how sluttily or glamorously they attempt to dress , a man will never, never, never succeed in becoming an actual woman. It's not possible and it never will be.

@sagalooshoe what's that got to do with drag?
Or did you just want the change to say how you feel about trans people with all your chest?

chance

I'm not bothered by drag queens in the main. I don't find them funny, but don't tend to find very much funny to be honest. I did wonder what Cheryl Cole thought of ,'Cheryl Hole' though.

It has everything to do with drag 😂😂😂

She was a guest judge if I remember correctly on Drag Race UK so they met and she said that she loved that she inspired her name.