I’ve always railed against rigid sex role stereotypes. I wore Nikes and basketball shorts under my mandatory dress at my private elementary school. At church, I always gravitated toward the theological debates in the men’s groups rather than the decorating tips and recipe exchanges at the women’s events. I’m direct and assertive, not gentle and fluffy. I don’t particularly care for cooking or homemaking or playing dress-up, and the little make-up I own is stored inside a massive green ammo can.
As a longtime liberal in the "netroots" until 2020, I feel it is important to say FOR THE RECORD that at no point, ever, did anyone say to me that we were about to launch a drag queen offensive at local libraries, and everyone should be a good comrade about it.
Had I been afforded the opportunity to object, I would have.
Can we also talk about how they dress up as exaggerations of women, not actual women? The only woman who maybe looks a bit like a drag queen is Dolly Parton, and she's doing that on purpose. Show me a drag queen with hair in a ponytail wearing yogapants and I'll take that back.
Kaeley, it is great to find you on Substack.
As a longtime liberal in the "netroots" until 2020, I feel it is important to say FOR THE RECORD that at no point, ever, did anyone say to me that we were about to launch a drag queen offensive at local libraries, and everyone should be a good comrade about it.
Had I been afforded the opportunity to object, I would have.
Can we also talk about how they dress up as exaggerations of women, not actual women? The only woman who maybe looks a bit like a drag queen is Dolly Parton, and she's doing that on purpose. Show me a drag queen with hair in a ponytail wearing yogapants and I'll take that back.
If women can wear pants and mens clothes.
Men can wear dresses.
Like. Get with the times.
This argument sounds very similar to the old men who preached against women wearing pants.
If women are allowed to do everything a man can do then so can men do everything a woman does.
Men are not the slaves of women.