If you enjoy drag, to ask why?

[ForestGoblin]

I don't get it at all. It looks to me like a crude mockery of women. Even on the presumably somewhat sanitised RuPaul, the word for a "realistic" (ie could pass as a woman) drag queen is "fish"... A reference to being so womanly it's as though they have a vagina. I feel like they hate women and are performing all the things they find ridiculous about us in a really hammed up way. Making us seem bitchy and preening.

Also, more fundamentally, I don't understand the entertainment factor of "oh haha it's a man who looks a bit like a lady haha he's in a dress haha". So? On which note, how on earth are the lady boys of Bangkok still going strong with their tour. Don't give me oo the costumes and skillful songs and dances - as if people would go to see "the costumed dancers of Bangkok". There's some wow factor to seeing "ladyboys" specifically.

But loads of my friends love it. So it can't actually be as bad as I think. (Can it?)

Yanbu - drag is offensive to women or just not entertaining

Yabu - drag is awesome

Weirdly when I was about 9 I had a fascination with drag. There was a drag troupe/ show called Bloolips and I begged my Mum to take me. She thought I was on a wind up! Now as an adult woman, can't bloody stand it. Unfunny, sexist, pointless.
Grayson Perry (sometimes) cross-dresses. He does not do Drag and should not be put in that category.

Neither is pantomime (witty I mean).😳

@Trixiefirecracker "Neither is pantomime (witty I mean)"

Yes-that's what I said!

I used to like Paul O'Grady as Lilly Savage, and Steve Coogan as Pauline Calf. I haven't taken any notice more recently

I think that basically, drag is not a gender or a sexuality. So I don't understand why it's being treated as if it is.

I find it very unpleasant. It's not for me although I was willing to live and let live, until they displayed an unhealthy penchant for reading to children.