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berrel
3y ago
Please explain your logic more clearly, I don't see the connection you're making between the occupations you mentioned and men dressing up to make an offensive mockery of women in the way they do for drag.
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berrel
3y ago
Drag is men dressing up as caricatures of women. They wear costumes intended to represent women and mimic female bodies, adopt a 'woman' persona under a feminised and often heavily sexualised name, and act out every demeaning, off
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berrel
3y ago
I did not redefine misogyny. If I'd written a comment about the racism inherent in 'blackface' performance regarding its mockery of black people, would you claim I was redefining racism?
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berrel
3y ago
Is it? How did you come to that conclusion?
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berrel
3y ago
That too - the pantomime dame character is basically just men ridiculing middle-age women, while sending a message to any children watching that it's acceptable to do so. It's as offensively sexist as the drag queens.
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berrel
3y ago
The point is it's not a private affair. Retribution from people who react harmfully when others do not share their beliefs is a real thing, ask anyone who was brought up in a strict religious environment who became a non-believer. Some