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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Just watching the tackily fantastic "bargain living Brits in the sun" on these series they seem to always have a spotlight on drag acts.
With the world getting more and more fearsome of insulting anyone, will the act of dressing up as a woman and the word drag be seen as tasteless some day. |
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"Just watching the tackily fantastic "bargain living Brits in the sun" on these series they seem to always have a spotlight on drag acts.
With the world getting more and more fearsome of insulting anyone, will the act of dressing up as a woman and the word drag be seen as tasteless some day."
Can't see why the word drag would be seen as tasteless ever. It simply derives its meaning from "dressed as a girl" and lots of us do it.
Love the programme too, by the way  |
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No they'll never be outdated because to me they've always been about more than just the drag aspect. They're often hilarious or great singers too or great tribute acts. Omg the times I've seen a Shirley Bassey or an ABBA tribute back in the clubs in the eighties and nineties. Happy memories |
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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago
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"There is a small but vociferous group of women who protest against drag acts.
Considering that its a tradition that goes back centuries it would be a shame if they died out"
It will clearly be challenge, the SJW movement will eventually turn on it once it is in need of something new to challenge and complain against. It is how they generally work.
That's not to say it will have any success in their challenge but just wait as it has never stopped certain people trying before. |
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I have a feeling the whole scene will be eaten up one day in the name of progress.
Which will be a crying shame as I can’t for the life of me see anything exclusive about it.
Went to see Charlie Hides not so long ago was brilliant. Side act bit iffy though. |
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Interesting (Google) fact for the night.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word “drag” has existed since at least 1388, but it wasn’t until the 19th century that it was used in connection with performing in clothes or a persona different from your own gender.
In 1870, the Reynolds Newspaper in the United Kingdom printed the word in a gender-bending context in reference to a party invitation. “‘We shall come in drag,’ which means men wearing women’s costumes,” the paper read.
This definition probably originated in the theatre of the late 1800s, where male performers wore petticoats to perform as women. Their petticoats would drag on the floor, and so they referred to dressing up as women as “putting on their drags.”
By the 1920s, the term “drag” was being used by gay people. One theory is that it entered the community from Polari, a secret language born out of the criminalization of homosexuality in England that drew on theatre slang.
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"There is a small but vociferous group of women who protest against drag acts.
Considering that its a tradition that goes back centuries it would be a shame if they died out"
There's a small but vociferous group of people who object to just about everything these days. I've never seen it as misogynistic in any way whatsoever. It's just entertainment and theatre. |
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