BBC Rupaul Drag Quiz

[GrimDamnFanjo]

Online if you want to take it. You translate the drag phrase.
How nice to see that those putting it together didn't think that "fishy" meaning a very feminine drag queen may be offensive....

I’ve complained to the BBC.

About the horrible anti-woman jokes: I haven’t seen this show from the OP but you’ve cleared up something for me.

RuPaul, was who that strange misogynist was on tv the other night! Now it all makes sense.

I just caught the very end of Graham Norton on the bbc with Helen Mirren last weekend and there was a female guest singer on (starts about 44.00) who was talking about the career break her and the male creative partner/bandmate (it turns out) were both having since 2013 where they both had children. (See 44.48) Norton asks if they are a couple because they hadn’t said. RuPaul (I now know it’s him) chips in to her snidely out of nowhere, no context ‘do you know who the father is?’ to try to put her down.

At the time i just thought, oh no who is that embarrassing woman-hater? why do they have him on?

(Graham Norton I can see from the web is a judge on RuPaul’s show. That’s lovely then. )

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0008szg/the-graham-norton-show-series-26-episode-1

Bit of a side line here- but why do so many straight men think it is so funny to dress up as females for things like stag dos, military nights out (wearing women’s underwear) and so on.
I’m not exactly sure why, but I find that really offensive and always have done.

I thought about the black and white minstrel show. Isn't drag like wearing blackface? How is it ok for men to dress as and parody women, when women have been and still are oppressed by men? Why aren't male impersonators allowed on Drag Race?

I always liked Graham Norton. Not any more. Really disappointed in him.

(Graham Norton I can see from the web is a judge on RuPaul’s show. That’s lovely then. hmm)

Graham Norton can be a throughly unpleasant and nasty piece of work - and it's not in the slightest bit funny.I remember the comments he made about Amy Winehouse....amongst others.This camp, nasty , bitchy type of act is well past its date, surely?

I usually like Graham Norton but this has put me off him.

On the back of this thread I just posted on a family WhatsApp chat group about the emotology of the word cunt. DB discussed the various theories.

DF just posted this: What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.

So no fish there then!

why do so many straight men think it is so funny to dress up as females for things like stag dos, military nights out (wearing women’s underwear) and so on

Because it's a degrading thing for a male to do. It's the same as run like a girl, fight like a girl. Why it's socially acceptable for girls to wear trousers and play football and like blue, but not for boys to play with dolls and like pink and sparkly clothing without raising comment. Acting female is a lowering of status for a male, it's punching down. And there's the whole sexual thrill of the cross dressing. Oppression of women in action.

Women wouldn't bother dressing 'as men' for a hen party - why bother? Masculinity is higher status, women with beards.... are women with beards.