‘Tall, monsterous and scary’ - drag queens (commentators words not mine)

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

R4 ‘piece’ on drag just now (8:30). Touched on women doing drag to avoid rape and sexism.

Anyone catch the start of this? I didn’t catch who the commentator was.

Women doing drag to avoid rape and sexism?

Women historically dressing as men to avoid rape and to wangle jobs etc.

I didn't catch the start but was shocked when was asked about the feminist stance of considering drag as offensive and performing gender stereotyped femininity- his answer was "that's too intelligentsia for me , I'm just a drag commentator " absolute cop out.

Well, the honesty of the comment made me laugh. Nothing worse than someone just belching nonsense when they don't really know/care. At least he (?) admitted it.

Although I found his breathy Marilyn Monroe voice very irritating.

Thanks fekko

"that's too intelligentsia for me , I'm just a drag commentator "

Thinking hurts my head and also makes my penis sad!

Then the piece later on (about 9am) re Smiths and the plural pronoun made me laugh.

I found myself annoyed as much as amused this morning. Drag makes me a bit uncomfortable. It's either a genuine misunderstanding about what women are, or it's a parody of us. Neither option makes me happy. The black and white minstrels fell out of favour, I wonder if drag ever will?

As for the Sam Smith piece, how many times did they say he or him when they were discussing Sam's own preferred pronouns?

Mind you I'm not convinced he thinks like a woman as I don't see what frame of reference he can have for that? I could as easily say I think like a giraffe. I can't eat from treetops though.

I'm lazy and like naps and treats so obviously I know what it means to feel like a cat.

We don't label by gender - rather by sex (and rightly so, even though the push these days is to do so). You may as well split groups of humans by eye colour or number of moles.

There was an earlier piece about how as a society we are looking for dragons to slay - so as St George was p[reviously running about trying to right sexism, racism and homophobia all that's left to slay these days is the newt that is transphobia (etc) in a desperate attempt to slay something.

I must say R4 this morning didn't have me wanting to smash my phone or swear loudly.

And I am a Penguin (although I don't eat fish and I know my sex/gender. Not too keen on the cold either.

Thinking hurts my head and also makes my penis sad!

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I might steal that

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It's either a genuine misunderstanding about what women are, or it's a parody of us.

I don't know that those are the only two options. I wouldn't have said drag queens are really meant to be women at all.