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Originally Posted by spaceman Bryce
Tennessee passed a second law against drag shows yesterday thus strengthening their anti drag stance.
I'm really surprised at how many people don't know the difference between drag queens and trans women, but I guess it "makes sense" if you just draw a big pink triangle around those two groups.
There isn't anything sexual about drag performers or shows. One of the reasons conservatives are targeting drag shows is because drag queens are culturally gay.
Some things like hunting are inherently masculine and some things like knitting are inherently feminine. If a guy tells you his favorite hobbies are make up and knitting, those are some feminine hobbies and it vastly increases the odds he's gay.
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Drag queens aren't just like... feminine coded, they are part of gay culture just like football comes from an extremely straight guy culture. So conservatives don't understand the gay psychology behind it and then assume it's sexual for no reason, which is actually weird but good luck telling them that.
The exaggeration of effeminate expression in drag queens can be considered a form of sexualized expression IMO, and the reason is twofold: there is likely a certain nuanced sexual gratification that simply isn't as focused as with actual sexual acts, and also because, as you suggest, it is an expression of sexual orientation, in this case homosexuality. It is a very blunt and focused expression of femininity that is lacking in such a neutral act as knitting. If one wanted to say that anything anyone ever does has a degree of sexual drive, or libido as a constituent aspect, I might agree, while also suggesting that calling it default sexual would be a stretch. Not the case with drag queens though, as they are focusing on feminine expression exaggeratedly such that it crosses a threshold where you can call it sexual, albeit short of being explicitly so, such as calling it pornographic would suggest, for instance.
I would level a similar "criticism" of modern music videos where a straight diva incessantly and impassionedly showcases her attractive physical attributes while crooning non-stop about romantic relationship matters! I could easily argue vehemently and extensively with anyone on the merits of calling these respective self expressions, drag queen and diva, having sufficient sexual undertones to call them sexual, even if some people mistakenly feel that I'm claiming they cross a threshold of being outright sexuality explicit, such is you might find in, say, pornography, as I alluded to earlier.
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I remember being about 13 and walking down the street and seeing these guys acting gay. This was a during the time of gay panic , and I don't think some gen z person could know how anti gay people were back then and gay sex and kissing was illegal until 2003. So I kind of told the neighbors about it out of concern, and it was an awkward conversation. very awkward.
The reason I thought they were acting gay was because I thought they were trying to impress me. I was 13 and these were cute 14 year old guys playing basketball. It was a warm summer day and they were playing shirtless as young guys often do. I made a mistake on a subconscious level that grown adult men often make, they weren't doing anything sexual but I was the one sexualizing them. Because internally I was gay and didn't get the actual point of their basketball game.
So the really weird thing is that these conservatives are the ones sexualizing drag queens because they don't understand it.