Oh just FTF off Starmer!

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What is it with Labour and drag queens?

Of all the photo opportunities there must have been at the event, labour couldnt resist to promote this again. Its obviously something thats very important to them.

A picture of lovely Kier Starmer standing with a beautiful tall woman who is about a foot taller than him.
Honestly, I got a magic feeling in my tummy and thought what a kind and caring man Starmer is and what a cosy heartwarming picture.
And then I cried at how lucky we are to have such an inclusive and caring PM.
He just really values women.
Treasures them.
That photo made me feel the bagpipes.

I'm surprised that the reaction to the photo hasn't been an absolute wall-to-wall blizzard of that most hilariously appropriate Burns quotes, - taken out of context, it's true but feck it! :
'A Man’s a Man for a’ that'

Thanks for posting it here, INeedAPensieve

He can keep his chanter to himself, thank you.

I wouldn't know, because I don't click on twitter links.

Yeah!! 👏🏻😃

I find that quite offensive actually. Yuk. Parodying women is not kind.

Puts me right off Starmer

Very good Arabella😂

There was a BBC programme a while back about the disgraceful origins of blackface. I look forward to the corresponding one on womanface and drag ....

Karen Gillan comes to mind. She’ll be on mat leave at the moment. (Doctor Who, Marvel and the newer Jumanji films.)

I’m assuming that the bloke in drag was supposed to be Poosie Nancy. I’m sure they could have found someone better than a male nonentity.

I mean - couldn't Starmer just have popped into a school and had a chat to them about Burns' poetry or something?

Or would that not have been in-clu-hoosive enough?

Bloody virtue-signalling idiot.

aaahhh Pussy Nancy 😂

A man's a man for a' that - and Burns would have known well that a man cannot become a wee cuddy.

The size difference is a visual addition

Trans really has jumped the shark now hasn't it?
Labour are starting to look like they are from another era.
It used to be an easy way to visually virtue signal an allegiance to trans and queer causes to meet and be photographed with a drag queen but now it is politically unpopular and a won't do him any favours.

Wow this shows that he really doesn't get it at all, or really doesn't care about women, or is deliberately trolling us. How can someone so apparently educated and presumably legally clued-up, not have grasped the issues with all this crap yet? He's had years to think it through.

Even leaving aside the issues of being offensive parody of women, sticking a token drag queen into every event to spice it up has lost the original feeling of being irreverent, edgy, or outrageous.

It's a fat bloke in purple eyeshadow wearing fake breasts. Can we really not get over thinking this is in anyway hilarious or transgressive?

It's the contemporary equivalent of Benny Hill.

It's the contemporary equivalent of Benny Hill.

It really is. Hackneyed, cheap and evokes the era of 'male chauvinist pigs' doing mother-in-law jokes.

It's astonishing that he can't see it. It almost makes him look quaint in his out of dateness.

I like Laurence Cheyney he's very funny as well as glam. Why not?

I've never particularly liked the drag queen thing, it made me uncomfortable, especially when they'd make lewd jokes about women. They were always in adult cabaret clubs so I was only really exposed to it when on holiday at cheap bars etc. some of them had really offensive names like fanny hole and stuff like that. It seems to have got worse in the last 10 years and is now no longer just late night cabaret shows or in cheap holiday bars. There's drag stories on the BBC news online once a week at least!

BBC strenuously ignoring the family's use of male pronouns and flowers saying son for the drag queen Vivienne who died recently and sticking rigidly to they/them throughout the report of his funeral.
So on this they (BBC) know best do they?

I must say that personally I find the whole drag thing creepy. I don’t see that level of parodying of any other characteristic to such a level. Certainly with an air of acceptance, or even sanctimoniousness about it. Pretending taking the piss out of women is progressive. I guess women are fair game, and the men who do it aren’t.

WandsOut · Today 08:55

That photo made me feel the bagpipes.

I assume that's slang nauseous?

Yes, the poor young man who died playing second fiddle to his alter-ego in his obituaries.

Men dressing as women in "drag" originates in a nod to the "world upside down" and the fact that women were banned from acting for a long while. "Carry on ..." (for all their many disgraces) actually nailed it quite well IMHO. It wasn't a sexual display - not was it meant to be.