I've seen at least one account (admittedly, with all the caveats and qualifications unverifiable sources should have applied) that the incident boils down to Ms. Olympios drunkenly shoving her bikini-clad crotch into Mr. Jackson's face while both were in a hot tub.

I'm still smarting over the widespread criticisms of Looking as 'boring'. Especially given how much else prestige television is also small-scale and paced naturalistically. But hey, top that off with representational issues, and there goes the one other by/for LGBT production from television.

Downthread, @zaphodb123:disqus brings up the angle that the inherent shade and drama the heightened reality of drag kind of invites fans (or more, fans invite themselves) to feel like participants in the bandying of T and shade. I mean - this reunion alone, some of the shadiest drama gets laughed about.

Being able to see a diverse cross-section of 'normality' or whatever at DragCon, let's say - should be an indication that the barometer needle is indeed moving towards tolerance and acceptance. The point of this show being on a mainstream, widely accessible cable channel situates it at the interface of the LGBT…

We've got a pretty good community going on here for that, so cheers!

Sure. Sisterly support, people reconciling disparate viewpoints and biases that emerge from cultural and geographic diversity, highly skilled professionals working both cooperatively and competitively.

There's the point that no small dimension of homophobia, historically - employs misogyny. Sissy. Girlyboy. Half-man. These aren't terms that've gone away from schoolyards, even with increased attention to bullying. Even off the schoolyard, many LGBT youth and adults still face harassment and persecution in terms that…

It occurs to me that we're arguing action versus intention. For an example of the latter, addressing the Pulse massacre is one of the few times the show's explicitly gone in on topical contemporary events, as opposed to general themes of LGBT rights struggles.

Thank jeebus for the thousands of unimpressed-face, slow-clapping drag queen memes from RPDR to respond with.

Don't tell my language boner how to feel!

Okay - I definitely see that now. Totally.

I don't think most of your point is fundamentally wrong, but I do see a straw man in misrepresenting the thesis of the article. RPDR predates the rise of 45 enough that I fail to see the 'counterpoint' argument being made, or valid. I mean, this season was taped during last year's campaign, when all expectations and…

Sportsball! Titties! Guns!

It's more that the idea isn't to parody women as real-life human persons.

I'm not wearing them right this very second.

Upvoted, and also: language-boner for 'ossified'.

I mean, patriarchy and toxic masculinity still impact straight white cis dudes. Not in the same ways, and not to the same degree it hits the rest of us.

I'm really interested and curious to see you unpack that. Are you saying Valentina's air of entitlement is emblematic of Millennial exceptionalism?

There were always one or two skeevy straight dudes who would prowl the dancefloor looking to mack up on one of the extra-super-mega drunk straight girls.

I don't even think you have to invoke 'straight people' as the audience for RPDR to make this argument. Even LGBT youth can be taught misinformed ideas, if they're presented it without the appropriate sociohistorical context that allows for the reclamation of words like T- and she-male. RPDR could definitely stand to…