What are your views on drag?

[Ladyday1995]

I never really started thinking about this until the other day. But honestly I personally can't stand it. It's so completely insulting to women, it's an ugly caricature based on strange men's ill informed ideas about femininity. Everything about it is so gross, the cattiness, bizarre sexual overtones, the disgusting makeup and clothing. I just cant understand things like "drag queen story time". They've done that at my local museum much to my horror.

Just tedious, overdone and dated, tbh. I used to quite enjoy some drag but mostly find it boring these days.

It's obviously not children's entertainment, never was supposed to be.

It should be banned IMO. It's men parodying women.
It's no different to wearing an Afro wig and blacking up and that's, rightly, banned. So why is drag still permitted - and why are drag shows and Mrs Brown on prime time BBC TV?

I hate it.

I watch Drag Race & I like it

I completely agree with all of you and I am shocked that my woke daughter loves it. It's almost as though that second wave of feminism was a complete waste of bloody time.

Indifferent really. Someone might be entertaining in drag but not because they’re in drag. The drag part is pretty irrelevant as far as entertainment value is concerned. I find it pretty garish and harsh on the eye to look at but that’s me…to each their own.

Hate it.

It started to bother me a while ago and genuinely tried to get over it.

I spoke to people about it, to try to get them to persuade me that it was ok, but the more I thought about it, the more I disliked it.

Too much misogyny.

I hate it. Sexist, misogynistic, and unpleasant. Yet women are supposed to go along with it. I particularly hate the fact that if you don't you are assumed to be either a pearl-clutching prude, transphobic or kink-shaming - or all three.

Welsh Government gave grants to Drag Queen story time proponents recently as part of their LGBTQ+ friendly programme. FFS.

In my opinion, “womaning up” is the same as blacking up, and is equally offensive.

I dislike it a lot.... outdated, tired, end of the pier stuff to me.

What I find really odd is the use of drag artists in children's libraries, events etc as "stroytellers", I find this tasteless and misplaced, but know many who are entertained by this.

Doesn’t bother me at all. Far bigger things to worry about.

Offensive to women, promotes sexist stereotypes, talentless wish-fulfillment fantasy for the drag queen but uninteresting to watch, and has sexual origins and undertones so it makes me really cross when it’s shoved at children.

Oh yeah what @Flubbah said. It’s the same as blacking up and just as offensive.

What about female (as in biologically female from birth & woman is her gender - basically most of us who post)
drag queens?
There is a female/woman drag Queen on the latest Drag Race UK

@Olderbadger1

I hate it. Sexist, misogynistic, and unpleasant. Yet women are supposed to go along with it. I particularly hate the fact that if you don't you are assumed to be either a pearl-clutching prude, transphobic or kink-shaming - or all three.

Welsh Government gave grants to Drag Queen story time proponents recently as part of their LGBTQ+ friendly programme. FFS.

I agree completely. I can't understand why it is pushed on children. I really wonder what the motives are of those making these decisions.

Offensive. Belongs, with blacking up, in the bin.

I don't care. I'm happy for drag to be part of our culture. It's colourful and unabashed and a lot of fun.
I think someone dressing up as a woman is categorically not the same as being a woman or being qualified to enter women's spaces ... but as we know that's been done to death on this board already.

Men pretending to be women is outdated like pantomimes.

I wasn't born a boy and can't pretend now to be a man, I can't pretend to be Asian either as it's not who I am.

I don't get offended by blacking up either. I think being unable to laugh at yourself is quite dysfunctional, actually. No one is so precious that they can't be poked fun at.

@Avarua I find it highly offensive and I'm not black.

Can't stand it.

It's rank with every fucking stereotype and misogyny from the largely glam/slutty clothes, grotesque makeup and drag lingo (terms such as "fishy" to denote someone who passes particularly well as a woman).

I can't think of another example where this level of insulting parody would be deemed ok.

Just as we rightly look back on blackface as being highly inappropriate/insulting/racist, I think (hope) in the future that drag will be similarly vilified and relegated to the history books.

@Owlink

Offensive. Belongs, with blacking up, in the bin.

This.

People said gollywogs and the black and white minstrels were “colourful and a lot of fun “.

@Avarua

I don't care. I'm happy for drag to be part of our culture. It's colourful and unabashed and a lot of fun. I think someone dressing up as a woman is categorically not the same as being a woman or being qualified to enter women's spaces ... but as we know that's been done to death on this board already.

But it's not "just" about dressing up as a woman.

It's doing so in a way that's utterly insulting and misogynistic.

As per my pp - the clothes/make up/lingo is all steeped in sexist stereotypes dressed up as "entertainment".

Most of the best comedy is parody though. Without parody you're basically left with cringe-type or slapstick humour.

The makeup and clothes are wearable art. It's great.