My issues with gender non-conforming behavior/bad, hopeless drag deserves a fuller treatment. The short version: I don't get why gender non-conforming behavior is such a big, new thing--Gays and lesbians have been doing it for years. We were gender non-conforming before gender non-confirming was cool.
Probably not a big revelation, but I think gender non-conforming means a lot more than wearing a dress or sporting a butch haircut to show how "radical" or "woke" you are. It's about resisting stereotypes of what the conventional wisdom says it means to be a man or a woman. And that involves so much more than clothes, make-up, and hair. I have straight friends who are gender non-conforming--they live their lives as people, not as 1950s archetypes.
Oh, and with RuPaul in the world, there is no excuse for bad, hopeless drag.
So stop it. Stop it right now.
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Guuuuuuuuuuurl.
Rethink this.
Rethink everything.
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