Some legislators this Session staged an unnecessary and unsuccessful freak-out about free speech on campus.
I have a hard time believing that there is any need for additional protections of free speech when SDSU students in Jackley’s New Vatican can advertise a drag show to promote the Gender and Sexualities Alliance:
This drag show is SDSU-GSA’s amateur show; tickets for the professional drag show in November cost a buck apiece more.
I’m not a fan of drag shows because they just don’t appeal to me, however . . . it’s easy to understand why the über religious freak out about them. (Listen carefully because I have to whisper.) There is s-e-x in them.
Did you get that? Yeah.
Not that I care but; to declare that somehow people objecting to a “Drag Show” is somehow discriminatory is stupid. A “Drag Show” is actually nothing more than a demeaning sexualized demonstration of support for rape, sexual abuse and sexual trafficking of the most vulnerable among us.
How can anyone speak about equality and the harm of sexual assault then turn around and support the public display of sexual abuse?
OS, have you ever attended a drag show?
I’m taking a course in postmodernism, mostly in terms of visual art, but we’ve discussed drag shows using postmodern understandings. So, in many drag shows now there are men dressed as women, women dressed as women, men dressed as men and women dressed as men. Who is what? That is the question. What you end up with is that the whole idea of gender as a social construct, not a biological reality, becomes blown wide open. You deal with “pose.” We pose as male or female as much as we are male or female. You deal with “pastiche.” We have a mix of social and biological , male and female. Then you start dealing with what, after all, makes you think a man is a man, or a woman is a woman. How do you know, without a genital check? If a man is dressed like a woman, “acts” like a woman (eg., gesture, walk) is he a woman or a man. If you can’t see genitalia are you lost? What does that say about you?
I ran across this post on FB this evening after reading and commenting on DFP. I think this is very funny and illustrates that drag shows are entertainment to be enjoyed. I hope y’all enjoy it too!
**Be warned, some raunchy content, perhaps not suitable to some.**
https://goo.gl/CBgWpH
Debbo, if you feel sexualizing women or men in drag is somehow not discriminatory but calling you out because it is clearly sexualizing others makes me discriminatory I’m not getting the logic. . . Please explain.
What on earth is Sarg talking about? Drag Shows are acting stages of entertaining art is all, and the men that are in them are funny, beautiful and creative. You should go to one sometime, Sarg, you’d probably have loads of fun.
We Dems know there are untold thousands of closet GOP cross-dressers, oh do we ever know. The biggest secret was J Edgar Hoover’s hobby of dressing in drag with his old boyfriend.
Wow. OldSarg says weird stuff sometimes.
Sarg, if you don’t like drag shows, you can just say so. I’m with you. I find nothing fun or entertaining about people wearing clothes that they bought on the opposite side of target from where they normally shop. I would be equally entertained with complete strangers modeling boring halloween costumes or baseball uniforms.
But to call these shows “…support for rape, sexual abuse and sexual trafficking…” seems a bit much.
On entertainment value: in one of the one-act contest plays I directed at Montrose, six boys came out on stage in cheerleader skirts and did a sheet routine, complete with boys riding piggyback on other boys’ shoulders. The audience at State One-Act roared. Mission accomplished.
I struggled with the wording of my comment for that exact reason, Cory. I originally typed something like…”these things aren’t funny and blah blah blah…” but the reality is some people enjoy them or they wouldn’t exist – so I had to make sure I was only offering my opinion, not a statement of fact.
To be fair, I was in speech in high school and during my senior year, our one-act play was a completely stupid and unfunny alternate-universe version of the wizard of oz. It was supposed to be funny, but it was horrible. I hated speaking my lines because they were so lame it physically hurt me to be a part of it. That being said, we got a lot of laughs from our audiences every time. I’m not saying that audiences are wrong, but I am saying I have a very different sense of humor than most people, apparently.