Blacking-up bad: dragging-up good.

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The dignitive cossonance is pretty big:

"This year’s West Side Story remake is reportedly trying to redress some of the original’s wrongs, casting Latino actors where the 1961 version cast “browned up” white actors."

On the other hand, "....Burns points to the way that The Wall in My Head, sung by Jamie, a teenager who wants to be a drag queen, about how a flippant comment from a parent can build to become a real barrier, has “really hit home in terms of the song that teenagers relate to”.

This. It's a big sore point for me too. And when I tried to find out what the thread of truth behind it might be, this is what came up:

Race is real. It's a biological, born-that-way fact, so it's not on for oppressor classes to appropriate it (or whatever the current terminology should be).

Sex is a figment of the imagination, and anything you can do to smash the binary, like getting dressed up in the most extreme women's stereotype (but not men's, somehow), is a blow for freedom. Or something.

I've been stuck in a permanent jaw-dropped Whuuuuuut? ever since.

Oops! Didn't give a link: www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/jun/20/hear-the-people-sing-musicals-are-back-and-theyre-retuned-for-a-new-generation

At some point 'woman face' will become a no no, just like the Black and White Minstrels. I hope I'm around to see it.

A lot of people have an issue with this comparison and I can understand why.

Personally I think it's valid but I'm not black so there's that.

What I find weird is how drag is being pushed so hard. Stuff on the telly all the time, pieces on front page of BBC etc.