Anonymous Why don't people despise performance in drag the same way they despise blackface? Isn't both ridicule? I'm upset by how everyone is idolising Conchita Wurst when if a female performed in drag whilst showing off a provocative cleavage (the equivalent to Conchita's beard) she would be considered a huge joke, not WIN. It seems that whatever males do they get away with it or are even celebrated, and the same rules don't apply to females.

I’m white, so the only thing I have to say about blackface is that I find it absolutely appalling, racist and horrifying, but it’s not my place to compare it to drag.

I do find drag appropriative though, and I think that drag queens are mocking womens subordination, and that idolising drag queens in the name of feminism is typical liberal “feminist” bullshit.

I think that the celebration of Conchita Wurst is very telling regarding what direction todays feminism is taking. Modern “feminism” - trans activism - is more concerned with idolising males and their femininity performance than helping out our sisters who are still dying at the hands of men all over the world. Transgenderism is - and let’s not forget the history of violence towards it here, because that violence sprung out of misogyny - slowly gaining more and more acceptance in the western world, which is only because they are misogynists. Let me explain: before (and still, to a great extent - this is what is currently undergoing a social change), transgenderism was socially unacceptable, because of misogyny - the patriarchy hated transgenderism because it meant that men degraded themselves down to a womans level. Fast forward to the middle ground in which we stand today, and tomorrows social acceptance of transgenderism, and you have transgenderism as the New Misogyny - transgenderism is becoming accepted because it is just as misogynist as the forces behind the misogynism that made transgenderism unacceptable in the first place. Drag queens are misogynists, and the Patriarchy are finally catching up with that, so now they’re becoming more and more accepted by it.

I don’t know if you’re with me here, and I can elaborate if you want me to, because these thoughts I’m having are in a process of developing and I can probably give you a better answer once I’ve cleared my mind a bit on the topic.

- Pi