Usually, it seems to be "he" for the person and "she" for the persona, even when the name is the same for each (e.g. Chad Michaels). Hence the use of "he" to throw shade: the insult isn't that you're really a man, it's that your drag isn't up to par.

It would certainly provide an opportunity for some drama. Give it a couple seasons. 

I wondered that too, but I couldn't convince my husband that she actually did look any different. (He's apparently blocked the whole traumatic Tyra thing from his memory. Which is fair.)

Tuesday
8 PM — Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race (reality, 60 min.) Celebrities are transformed into glamazons in the season opener for yet another RPDR spin-off series. Jim Rash, Greg Louganis, Tom DeLay, Brendon Ayanbadejo, Aziz Ansari, Justin Timberlake, Spencer Pratt, Stephen Colbert, James Van Der Beek.

Very. I'm shocked that anyone else was even considered, honestly.

@avclub-981ec2327e01401e552164ed7314d4b0:disqus It might even have the pleasant side effect of increasing the number of interesting queens who make it to Drag Race. (Though I wouldn't count on it.)

Drag U desperately needs to be the show everybody assumed it was when they heard the title: a show where aspiring drag queens get shown how to do drag, by queens we already know and like from watching Drag Race.

It's no fun if you tell us to do it.

Seems like it would be difficult for a dedicated counterculture queen to keep up, though. Mainstream culture's been shifting pretty quickly lately on gay and trans issues.

Well, that was a theory that people came up with. I don't know that it was ever confirmed as having anything to do with why they did last season that way.

@avclub-938603766b16954933bae247b9a4f8ac:disqus Well there oughta be a StringForQueens.com. Where the hell else are queens supposed to get their string? #WhereMyStringAt

I sort of wish I'd stopped watching Untucked this season. (There were exactly two worthwhile moments, for me: Alaska's I WILL BEAT YOUR MOTHERFUCKING ASS!, which was like three seconds long, and the bit where the queens got the Santino, Michelle, and Ru puppets to play with, which was maybe three or four minutes. The…

And Coco too. What the mean girls consistently fail to realize is that saying mean things is not enough, by itself. You also have to say mean things that are smart, accurate, self-aware, specific, and interesting.*

(One could be their summer hearse!)

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(That was me! I got a shout-out!)

Same here. She's really fond of that particular shade of that particular color; I think there's been at least one other outfit that was mostly light pink but can't remember it off the top of my head.

I do have to say that I found Roxxxy's licorice dress really impressive, and it's one of my favorites from the whole season.

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@bampote:disqus But . . . it's a TV show. Why are they not supposed to play to the cameras? What would that even look like? Do we have different interpretations of what "playing to the cameras" is?