DaMonsterKneesSo the recent hate towards Pedro Pascal is JK and her loyalists making shit up because he spoke out that she's an awful person?
andros_rexTERFs will just make shit up. It’s absolutely unhinged. Rowling also has them denying that Nazis killed trans people - they’ve started to claim that the Nazis issued “transvestite passes” (which the Weimar Republic did - famously not the Nazi government) based on a book of photographs someone published of Nazi soldiers doing drag.
The Nazis tortured and murdered trans people. Some did drag because they thought it was funny, heck the US military did official drag shows during WW2. People do drag because it’s funny, that doesn’t mean they accept trans people. It’s unhinged how willing people are to lie and spread the lies of others in order to justify their hate.
luminareeYep doing drag shows because it’s funny is the opposite of accepting trans people. It mocks them, and women too.
Hey now, drag queens and kings aren’t the enemy.
To be clear I never meant to imply that they were, I wasn’t talking about actual drag performances. I was talking about men dressing up as women because they think it’s funny.
It’s a performance art, and like any other form of performance it can be used to be shitty, but it’s not inherently mocking of women or trans people. Some of the stuff I’ve seen on RuPaul has made me cringe, but I’ve also seen queens that dress up like church marms and do a Betty Bowers/old school Colbert skewering of the Christian right.
I agree, I wasn’t referring to actual drag performances, but to men dressing up as women only because they think it’s funny!
I don’t really necessarily have a problem even then. Manly men dressing up in dresses is funny because it pokes fun at masculinity, not at trans people.
I think it makes more fun of feminity than masculinity.
Granted it does both for sure.