Drag Queens Are Hated For The Sole Reason Of Misandry, amirite?

I would say it's less hatred of men and more a hatred and fear of anything that is not hetronormative.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That's also a good point, but I also think mine holds water because Drag Kings are almost never a part of the pedophile conversation.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Gay men specifically are the men affected by this stereotype at most. You won't ever see madea or the white chicks be called a pedophiles

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I see your reasoning- But as a drag artist I'd point out that it might also be that cis-het conservatives don't tend to realize that drag kings... Exist.... Not even everyone in the lgbtq community know they exist at times.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yeah, it's literally just the thing everyone is talking about so we the conservatives are scared of losing our current borderline fascist control to people we don't like, that's why Trans Men are hardly brought up because in most conservative eyes they aren't real unless it's convenient to hate on them.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

More than that I think they literally don't know. I do a lot of putting other people who've never done drag, into drag. And 80% of the time when I ask if they'd like to be a king/queen/somewhere in between , they're surprised that there's more than drag queens. There's just not a lot of awareness of that part of community I think.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's the same thing with the anti-trans crowd too. They target transgender women more than transgender men because they were born male.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I dressed in drag makeup as a teen once and I was called a pedo lmao. Like sorry?? I'm a girl? And underage??

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think that drag queens have gained the stigma of being perverts because there are so many viral videos of them doing sexually suggestive things in front of audiences that include young children. I've seen way too much of it. I know it's only a small fraction of queens doing this, but it's tarnished their image pretty badly as a group. It gives people who are already uncomfortable with them the ammo they need to disparage all of them.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Drag queens are disliked because they wear the worst parts of femininity like a a costume and not in a respectful way. Drag makes fun of women a lot of the time by exaggerating the same traits that ciswomen are lambasted for as humorous. Yes, there are elements of drag hate that are rooted in misandry but there are also very deserved criticisms of drag that aren't.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The worst parts of femininity is an opinion and one that drag queens don't hold. Drag is supposed to be a celebration of the opposite gender not a way to disrespect it - that's why it's kings and queens and not clowns. It does have exaggerated features it's a performance art after all. I do agree that cisgender woman are shamed for their femininity but others shouldn't be disparaged for celebrating it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Right, but what I'm saying is that on ciswomen, exceptionally large breasts or exaggerated makeup gets called clown like when it's just... women existing.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I have very large breasts, small waist and curvy hips, the typical hourglass figure and I've been physically attacked and called names because of it on a few occasions. I've been called all sorts of horrible names and I've had friends turn on me and insult me because of it and it's always been something I've been insecure about but I've seen drag queens wearing exaggerated hourglass silhouettes and they're celebrated and loved for it and it's always infuriated me. They receive compliments and praise yet I've received hate for it from the women who are supposed to support me. I completely understand what you're saying and I agree with it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of drag queens because I'm sick of my gender being turned into a caricature. I dont see why I should give money to some drag queen named "Padtricia Menstruation" yelling at me from the stage about how vaginas smell like fish with beach balls taped to their chest. Why would I pay money for some dude in a skirt to mansplain womanhood to me?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think you spelled misogyny wrong.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I did not

by Anonymous 1 year ago

We live in a culture of misogyny and men being the ones making most decisions. Go back to your men's rights groups

by Anonymous 1 year ago

>We live in a culture of misogyny and men being the ones making most decisions. Yes. I'm a feminist.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I agree with this narrative so much. Like, truly, someone dressing up very feminine and girly regardless of gender does not automatically make them a predator.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Autogynephilia exists.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Okay? If we're going to assume every man is a pervert we should take children from every single dad in existence and toss them in the foster care system. Assuming every drag queen is performing soley because of Autogynephilia, which honestly make no sense whatsoever, is like assuming every anime fan watches anime only because they like hentai.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Well, there's perverts and there's perverts. I'm just saying men that dress up as women often sexualise it to a degree.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

And I'm saying that you've obviously never been to a drag show. Drag queens usually dress up like middle aged woman with big hair and big dresses that cover everything.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I don't hate drag artists.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

And this is relevant because….?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's pretty relevant to why guys dress up as women.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I have seen several stories go viral of drag queens involved in "drag queen story hour" or "all aged drag shows" being in the sex offender registry to understand why people think of them as potential predators.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Damn some men are sex offenders, this means all men should be treated as potential sex offenders and not allowed within 200 feet of a school zone. You see how that's utterly idiotic?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Two things: 1. In most organizations, in most areas, working with children tends to require a criminal background check. Everyone already has to prove they're not predators. 2. It doesn't matter how common something is in reality, people's perceptions are driven by what they see online.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I completely agree with everything you just said....

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Jfc, imagine judging an entire group of people based on the actions of a few.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That's all these people do they group diverse groups of people as one big stereotype and when they can't find something bad they just make stuff up, like when all those people said there was trans affirming swim wear in the kids section of target which was a blatant lie.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yep and now those same people are claiming that porn is being shown in schools. Nothing but blatant lies.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There are predators in every single walk of life. That doesn't make everyone associated with them predators too.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Are drag Queens hated? They seem pretty mainstream these days. I get the history and the expression of identity etc but I find it completely mysoginistic and don't understand why it's accepted when other cultural appropriation isn't (Well, I do. Its because sexism is accepted)

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Right now it's a big thing for right wing Americans and other conservatives to hate drag queens because they're indoctrinating and grooming kids into not believing the cis and heteronormative guidelines that they want. Y'know hating an entire group of people because they don't fit your view of normality so you want to strip them of rights or eradicate them.... Hmmm sounds familiar

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There's probably something to this, but it will most likely be unpopular since it makes some men out to be blameless victims, which runs contrary to the feminist narrative.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There are a *lot* of invisible male victims in the world that will never get acknowledgement, let alone empathy, and it's pretty sad.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That's very true.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Drag queens are entertainers with outrageous outfits (just like clowns) but whose performances used to happen in gay spaces before becoming mainstream, hence people hating gays = people hating drags. Imo drag kings are less targetted because they are far less common, as there's drag king stuff on TV it's more difficult to gather biggots around this specific hatred.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

From what I can tell about half of all of the major social issues right now are caused by the anti-majority biases particularly the anti-male bias is a big one on this and because the people who want to fix problems tend to be against the majority groups in some capacity they're not going to be able to fix this

by Anonymous 1 year ago

>From what I can tell about half of all of the major social issues right now are caused by the anti-majority biases I don't agree with this fever dream of a take whatsoever and I just want to make this clear. Majority groups are not being victimized by the minority, they're being victimized by themselves.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Going to say it depends on the category of majority versus minority group White people are absolutely doing this to themselves (social justice warriors tend to have a larger anti-majority bias than they do pro whatever group they're trying to help bias) But The power gap between men and women is not so great that women could not have negative impacts on men (there have been studies that show that mother's reinforce gender roles on boys more than Fathers do)

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Women in whole enforce gender roles on men even when they claim they don't. Just look at what they expect from their partner, how they treat them, how they talk to them.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

drag queens are hated cos gays are notoriously hated... i am a straight man, honestly when i see a drag queen i consider her as some kind of woman that falls WAY BEYOND my lower date standards, and women as well don't want to have anything to do with "big gay" men (usually)... so considered this common (and IMO understandable) perception, also add bigotry, and the classic "easy hate" that some people are capable of, BAM!!, there it is the hate for drag queens... misandry has GENERALLY nothing to do with it

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Misandrist has absolutely everything to do with it. Queer phobia has something to do with it, but the fact that men are perceived as dangerous and predatory under the patriarchy has absolutely everything to do with it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

so why straight men are not hated this much if it's a matter of being predators?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

This isn't a relevant point, we're talking about Drag Queens not culture in general. I wouldn't have any problem with your point if it was relevant.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

are you the "lord of relevance"??? you haven't answered my question tho

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Honestly. I really don't mind them but when one of them decides to do a sexually explicit dance in front of children. That crosses the line. And that has happened.

by Anonymous 1 year ago