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In Reply to: City Orders Man to Keep the Smell of BBQ from Leaving his Property posted by LWR on July 26, 2015 at 09:49:03:
Snippet: Drag queens have been a part of gay life in the Western world for many years, from New York's Halloween parade to London cabaret acts. Under pressure from transgender activists, the Glasgow festival banned so-called cisnormative drag queens — drag queens who are, underneath the makeup, men who enjoy dressing up as women rather than men who believe themselves to be women, i.e. good old-fashioned weirdos without the delusional psychotherapeutic window-dressing — on the basis that their costumes lampoon femininity, which offends transgendered women, i.e. men who believe themselves to be women. That a theatrical group of almost exclusively gay men should have non-nonconformist attitudes toward femininity is not entirely surprising; what is almost surprising — but not quite — is that we are expected to take seriously the proposition that we must suppress this affront to the feminine identity because it offends women who have penises and testicles. …
Organized homosexuality grows ever more authoritarian: It has been seriously suggested by some transgender activists that I should be arrested — not criticized, not shunned, but locked in a cage — because I decline to describe Bradley Manning, Laverne Cox, et al. as women, because I don't "ask pronouns" and then play along, because I decline to participate in the delusion that these men are women. My own attitude toward these things has always been live-and-let-live: I don't care if you skip down Broadway with a walrus tusk tucked into your hat band, but don't expect me to pretend that you're a unicorn. Drag queens have always understood that what they do is a genre of theater, but when all the world's your stage, as it is for the purportedly transgendered, then live-and-let-live won't do.
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Follow Ups
- That's tame compared to the trans/drag girl fight! - regmac 12:09:32 07/26/15 (3)
- Is this Glasgow - Scotland? - John_the_Scot 12:53:25 07/26/15 (2)
- Indeed it is, Highlander.... - regmac 13:12:44 07/26/15 (1)
- Wow! - John_the_Scot 14:52:16 07/27/15 (0)
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