Tsirp

I love Suki and I love her blog. My homage:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/purejuice/tags/pillowtalkdecor/

Blogging RuPaul's Drag Race: Know Who You Are and Deliver At All Times

So far the best comment about draggin' has been made by Mystique Summers Madison, an early sashay away. She said no one pays attention to her male avatar, but everybody loves Mystique. It is of the ilk of Venus Xtravaganza's immortal comment [at 4:52] in Paris Is Burning to the effect that like everybody else, all she ever wanted was to be a white bitch in the suburbs. Cherished.

In RuPaul's Drag Race many other very interesting concepts of drag, including the stone feminist one of Virginia Woolf, the sense in which one picks up and lays down one's body, are touched upon.

For my belief is that if we live another century or so—I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals—and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the common sitting–room and see human beings not always in their relation to each other but in relation to reality; and the sky. too, and the trees or whatever it may be in themselves; if we look past Milton’s bogey, for no human being should shut out the view; if we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women, then the opportunity will come and the dead poet who was Shakespeare’s sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down.
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/

A couple that have struck me in passing is the critique some girls get of "wanting to be Beyonce, she thinks she is Beyonce" said cuttingly. But, as Paris Is Burning points out, it is better to pass for Beyonce than to be a gay black man.

And the concept of drag, well are we making fun of women? I'm a boy! cries one of the contestants, which much muddies the waters in the matter of passing for Beyonce, and gives an edge to one's drag personna. Again, they discuss the problem of having the drag personna imitate celebrities -- can Pandora Boxx actually act Carol Channing, or is letting go of Pandora too much? Answer, she can! But Tyra Sanchez' Beyonce is, despite her claim that to be Beyonce, she's just being herself, judged harshly as somehow -- inauthentic. And Mystique, as a plus size girl, could not let go of being pretty long enough to do the Daisy Mae country drag.

Amazing. People who chose to be women have all my respect.

If I were a Good Woman, I'd keep a pencil beside me as I watch. To learn a thing or two.

Putting On the Meteorite Hat

I know it's hard to believe, but I just got trolled by somebody who actually lists weev as one of their eight friends.

You remember ( weev. )