Drag artists - am I the only one who doesn't find them funny?

Drag artists challenging the stereotypes of how women are supposed to present is just about the best bit of mansplaining I’ve heard in a long while.

SueDonim

Drag artists challenging the stereotypes of how women are supposed to present is just about the best bit of mansplaining I’ve heard in a long while.

GrannyGravy13

The Lady Boys we saw whilst travelling around Thailand were some of the most beautiful people we have ever seen. Those we spoke with appeared to beautiful on the inside also.

Lovely post GrannyGravy I know I’ve met some too, your last sentence made me emotional, so true.

SueDonim

Drag artists challenging the stereotypes of how women are supposed to present is just about the best bit of mansplaining I’ve heard in a long while.

Anyone can do drag. It is not purely a male thing. Thinking it is shows just how little some people know about it. Read about it www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jul/10/workin-it-how-female-drag-queens-are-causing-a-scene

I’m not entirely comfortable to be honest. I just see men overly tarted up, almost as a caricature, their Adam’s apples covered with a velvet band and lots of glitter and sequins ... mind you drag artistes are not the same as transvestites. Drag is for entertainment isn’t it? To each their own. I just change channels.

I had the misfortune to be sitting it a pub with a group of friends when it turned out to be an LGBT evening, and a drag act came on. I did feel extremely threatened, s/he spent the evening criticising us for the amusement of the crowd around her, being extremely rude about our clothes, what we were doing sitting in their pub evening, there must be something wrong with us, we were ugly, thick etc etc. It was absolutely horrible, and I couldn't wait to get out of there, but there was no warning on the door that it was an LGBT evening.

They are comedians/comediennes - the sense of humour is hit and miss, depending on individual tastes

They have mad skills on the makeup department!

I find them offensive and misogynistic on the whole.

I don't get why (quite rightly) 'blackface' is roundly condemned but drag isn't seen as unacceptably offensive to women.

And I'm sick of the likes of the BBC shoving it down our throats.

adaunas

Not for me at all.
Seamstress, it is a bit reminiscent of ‘blacking up’, which became unacceptable. This time though they’re parodying women and that’s evidently OK.

I don't like drag, I don't find it at all entertaining and it's the aspect of putting on a caricature of a woman that I don't like. I never liked Danny la Rue, who was on TV a lot when I was a child - I just couldn't see what was meant to be entertaining about his act. But there was a lot of 'variety' on TV in those days and I think drag acts were a valid part of variety.

I do feel drag has been pushed down out throats a bit by the BBC with Drag Race, but if it appeals to some members of the public I'm happy for it to be on as long as I don't have to watch it! Some of my friends love Drag Race - each to her own, I guess.

Oh I think they are just challenging societies norms. That's healthy. If one does not feel comfortable then really do not put yourself in that arena of entertainment.