As a former drag king, this is so nice to read. I always felt like kings weren’t what got the audience (or other drag performers) interested! I can’t say I was particularly good at it, because I was a beginner, and the obvious disinterest of the audience, as well as the dismissive attitudes of many of the queens,…

I have noticed the lack of genderfuck/bearded/trash queens on RPDR, and I agree with you that Ru has a relatively fixed idea of what constitutes entertaining drag. To that point, I (black/straight/cis woman) generally find drag king performances interesting (not boring), but not necessarily as entertaining as drag…

I have such a different reaction than you do (which is good, b/c that is what art is for). Drag queen performances exhaust me (in a way I know the artist does not intend) because I experience it as being told what being a woman should look like. After a life of being inundated with images of what media/advertisers/men…

I get that. At the same time, something that authors like Jack Halberstam highlight when they’re writing about drag kings is the possibility that kings (as well as butches and other folks exploring female masculinity) might not only reproduce dominant masculinities but also innovate alternative masculinities. For…

Ru did acknowledge his wrongness in what he said and thanked people for correcting him and showing him that he was being close-minded.

I feel the opposite and I’m probably going to have a different group of people come at me. But I’m so fucking sick of men that I’ve stopped liking drag queens because there’s an element of it that is men performing a man’s idea of what a woman is. And I’m just over men’s opinions of women.

Yea I agree with Tonja’s position.

Tonja nailed it. At no time during Haddish’s “antics” was any reasonable person thinking, ‘man, that’s embarrassing for black people.’

I’ve always preferred drag kings to drag queens. I think society is more comfortable with seeing femininity as performative, but turning a spotlight on masculinity and making it performative can make people uncomfortable - it forces people to question how much of masculinity is innate “being a real men” and how much…

In the interests of honesty I’m a pathetically average white guy. But I recognize the disparity in treatment of POC. I try my best to understand and not contribute to the problem.

“Apparently women can be anything they want to be as long as they meet a narrow criteria some fools on Twitter decided on last week”

Tiffany Haddish is awesome and I hope she keeps wearing that goddamn dress forever. In fact she should do like Marge Simpson when she joined the country club and keep re-purposing the dress into different outfits

As long as we let certain white people “By Default” define who we are and how we choose to live our lives, then we ain’t shit.

“ JL does do the whole sloppy, drunk single friend routine and it’s treated like an endearing trait. “

I think the JLaw example serves as a good one. Really Haddish’s behavior is not different than JLaws in terms of what’s considered “good taste”. JL does do the whole sloppy, drunk single friend routine and it’s treated like an endearing trait. Meanwhile Haddish does the same thing and she’s “too ghetto”?

C’mon. TH is a…

Didn’t she wear two or three other dresses that evening too? *eye roll*

The irony of someone named “Jakoury” talking about embarrassing the race has not been lost upon me...

I think the difference there is no one’s expecting a rapper to act classy. I don’t know why a comedian is held to a different standard, but there’s a lot of “classism” (for lack of a better word) in the entertainment industry and I think that’s what’s happening here. It’s gross.

In regards to the dress she did tell y’all on SNL that she was going to wear the shit out of it. Good for her. If she’s too black for some fuck them. In a country where we now have a dumb ass as *president. who’s being celebrated for being stupid by the way, I’m here for Ms. Haddish in full.

I honestly feel like the overwhelming majority want Tiffany to win and are all about her unapologetic blackness. I think that is the draw for most people...