They want to be taken seriously.
They'll tell you that patting a woman's ass is just as bad as rape. Bill Maher mentioned this last week, and how Matt Damon was excoriated for suggesting the two were not equal offenses, and one of them might NOT be ground for a man being forced to resign his job.
What IS considered respectful?
DRAG.
Dressing up in a PARODY of womanhood.
Recently the NY Post ran a happy series of "Transformation" pictures from the RuPaul "Drag Race" Show. Oooh, how marvelous, these men in their clownish DRAG:
So where were the liberated ladies to say that impersonating a woman is offensive?
What is the point of drag? It's to make fun of women, just as minstrel shows made fun of blacks, and stereotypes in early films were to humiliate immigrants who couldn't assimilate. Ha ha, look at the way they talk and dress.
So, look at how drag queens make fun of the way women talk and dress.
The other aspect is to show that with make-up, hair and wardrobe, a MAN can be a WOMAN.
Interesting, isn't it, that some women are offended by transsexuals, and the notion that an operation is what makes a woman. Transsexuals aren't doing it for laughs. Drag queens are.
It's a mockery.
Minstrels shows were once defended as a "tradition." There are no more minstrel shows. But there are drag shows, and they dare to be on national television, not confined to peculiar little nightclubs.
The other day, Major League Baseball announced that the Cleveland Indians would no longer be allowed to use a stereotype mascot on their uniforms.
A few months back, an uproar greeted the news that a white actor was going to play Michael Jackson on a British TV show. This was the later day Michael Jackson, when he looked white. NOPE, not allowed.
Not too long ago, Johnny Depp was seriously questioned about playing TONTO in a movie, and a woman named Rachel Dolezal lost her job because she "identified" as black, but wasn't.
Blacks found Dolezal OFFENSIVE.
Women don't find DRAG offensive? The deliberate and grotesque parodying of stereotypical female traits?
Remember when Ted Danson was under attack for appearing in blackface? His girlfriend at the time, Whoopi Goldberg, thought it was funny. NOBODY ELSE DID.
Charlie Chan movies are not shown on TV anymore because the actors, Warner Oland and Sidney Toler, were wearing what is now called "YELLOW FACE."
Nobody mentions Al Jolson, once considered "The World's Greatest Entertainer," because he wore blackface and sang songs in sympathy of the Black plight in the South. He wasn't making fun of Blacks, the way DRAG QUEENS do with women. He sang "Old Black Joe" and "My Mammy" with sincerity. Even so, it was determined this was "politically incorrect."
Not outrageous drag.
Isn't it one thing for an actor to play a woman in a film that makes a point, such as "Tootsie?" Isn't it one thing for a genuine artist to impersonate females, such as Charles Pierce?
Charles Pierce NEVER called himself a "drag queen."
Maybe it's time that NOBODY uses the term "drag queen," and DQ is disqualified, the same way white actors can't do "Yellow Face" or play "redskins" or imitate blacks.
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