Gender misappropriation

[LoopyLouLaLa]

If cultural misappropriation exists why does gender misappropriation not?

Shouldn’t it be ‘sex appropriation’?

Men have always found it funny to mock women by dressing up as our exaggerated stereotype. It’s a little bit of misogyny that is just too hilarious for them and women who hate other women to let go.

Yes probably sex misappropriation. I am fed up of this mad world we live in. Women are women, men are men and some people want to not apply gender norms and that ok. What’s not ok is saying you’re a women when you’re not. I feel so, so sorry for children of today being exposed to all this

As @Holeinamolesays, it’s seen as a joke, so if we object to it we are humourless bitches. But a lot of Drag (not all, but enough for it to make my teeth itch) mocks women, often quite harshly. Why can’t men explore their ‘feminine side’ without parodies of extreme stereotypes. I’m not sure if it’s appropriation in the same way as cultural, but it does feel like they are laughing at us, not with us.

I think the kids of today find this rather passe and boring. Certainly at my kids school it is.

You can't kid a kid....

See also stag do outfits. Hilarious.

We're humourless if we dont like drag, and uncaring if we dont like men pretending to be women.

Men seem to be able to express themselves however they wish, and our feelings on the matter irrelevant.

I remember when trans hated drag because they thought it was 'trans face'. But drag persists indicating theres a subtle hierarchy in the LGBT family.

Of course it is. It's putting on womanface.

Gender misappropriation would be insisting that performing feminine stereotypes makes a man a woman.

Sex misappropriation would be when a man demands services and rights that are appropriate to women, and completely inappropriate to men, such as male athletes competing in women's categories.

Also, there is hope for the kids coming through now - they know the issues and know they want no part of it. They know they have enough to deal with with lower quakity of life, exam grades, job competition, housing. It's "post" to them.

I do wonder if future generations will look at Ru Paul’s drag race (multiple series, international success, made Mr Paul a lot of money) and wonder how it could ever be considered the cultural cutting edge. The queens with their paraphernalia, lecturing us all on the benefits of this make-up foundation versus that …

Good question

There'll be tv shows with celebrities shocked at the public attitudes of the time. And the tv companies masking the shows will conveniently forget it was them pushing this on the public.

This might touch a nerve so I'm happy to be schooled but, I don't see it as much different from the women who perform femininity. Influencers, love island contestants. The extreme ways in which these women modify their bodies and subject themselves to hours long beauty routines for fame and attention, devoting their entire lives to the performance. I think both phenomena are a consequence of the same mental health issues around self worth and misogynistic attitudes in society. TV makes it seem like that's what you need to do to be a legitimate woman. Us normie women sitting here with no make up and scruffy shit hair and 2 decade old pyjamas on eating easter eggs for breakfast are apparently not proper women.

If the concept of being trans racial is ridiculous and offensive and Rachel Dolezal is clearly deluded and disgusting, how does the idea of being trans gender stand and why is India Willoughby lauded as brave and beautiful? So odd.

If an artist ‘blacked’ up with exaggerated features they’d be cancelled on the spot…I don’t see any difference with men wearing exaggerated Dolly Parton wigs, fake boobs and tucking their meat and two veg into tight knickers.

What you're describing is the very opposite of gender/sex appropriation. It's hyper-performing but it's not appropriation.