feminism?

May 04, 2008 22:50

So on Friday? Helen and gf and gf's friend go to see a drag king show. Helen hasn't seen a drag king before, and thinks it may be amusing.

Show is so-so - a couple kings, one of whom isn't really trying to look or move like a man, the effort stopped at the eyeliner-sketched goatee. The other was more impressive, a rather large woman (ok, she was taller than your average male pro-basketballer and rather 'solidly-built'), who looked very convincing. The whole thing came across as rather unrehearsed (as in I'm sure it was put together in the ten minutes it took them to get dressed backstage), and included a token drag queen who was more disturbing than anything else. Short and muscley (I know I spelled that wrong), with very tight clothes and hundreds and thousands painted on his lips.

And then there was the 'special guest from sydney', I think she was referred to as "She".

"She" was frightening. "She" was dressed up as a 1950s housewife or some such, with kitchen props and a large black 'device', which she promptly pretended to sit on. "She" then proceeded to 'dance', with the aid of said 'device', lifting her dress and wobbling her boobs and stomach frantically. I can only imagine that this was intended as some sort of feminist comment on something - although I'm not sure what, exactly. "She" had a second performance later. With crochet.

. . .heading home, walking to somewhere where gf's friend can catch a taxi. Some girls who were there are walking behind us.

"What was that? I didn't know where to look, but then, I thought if I didn't look, it would seem like I was trying not to look, so I looked.

I didn't want to"

heh.

. .. oh, and? "She" very obviously had a brazilian going on. Is this post-feminist? Germaine, I'm sure, would not approve :P
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