I remember feeling outrage as a 7 year old girl at seeing drag queens, on tv. "So women are a joke for men to make fun of?" was my first thought. It didn't even occur to me how offensive it was that it was often a sexualised caricature of women being presented for entertainment. So while I agree very few boys watch and think they want to…
I remember feeling outrage as a 7 year old girl at seeing drag queens, on tv. "So women are a joke for men to make fun of?" was my first thought. It didn't even occur to me how offensive it was that it was often a sexualised caricature of women being presented for entertainment. So while I agree very few boys watch and think they want to now dress as a pronified version of a woman for fun, they are definitely getting the message (as are little girls) that women are a joke and a sexualised joke at that. That's not ineffectual, I promise.
Drags are as cringeworthy as the blackface minstrels in that regard. It could make you think that women are being made fun of it the same way black people were being made a joke.
The minstrels were doing it while appropriating the music of people from Africa. I've never been to a drag show. Is there vaudevillianesque mimicry of women entertainers?
I remember feeling outrage as a 7 year old girl at seeing drag queens, on tv. "So women are a joke for men to make fun of?" was my first thought. It didn't even occur to me how offensive it was that it was often a sexualised caricature of women being presented for entertainment. So while I agree very few boys watch and think they want to now dress as a pronified version of a woman for fun, they are definitely getting the message (as are little girls) that women are a joke and a sexualised joke at that. That's not ineffectual, I promise.
Drags are as cringeworthy as the blackface minstrels in that regard. It could make you think that women are being made fun of it the same way black people were being made a joke.
The minstrels were doing it while appropriating the music of people from Africa. I've never been to a drag show. Is there vaudevillianesque mimicry of women entertainers?