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"... it's worth asking why FTM [Female to Male] drag has gained MTF's acceptance in neither mainstream popular culture nor queer communities... MTF [Male to Female] drag is about performing, and often ridiculing, femininity - a state that, in its exaggerated drag form, is fake, plastic, shallow, and lacking in power. FTM drag is about performing and poking fun at masculinity, a privileged, powerful state that is impossible to 'perform' anyway because it's so darn natural and normal. Many drag kings can pass as male, and that means both questioning male privilege and calling attention to it - unacceptable in a patriarchal society that depends on the naturalness and invisibility of such privilege. Could FTM's lack of acceptance be due to the fact that it presents a much greater threat to gender roles than MTF?"
- Donna Jean Troka, writing in Bitch magazine in 2000. (Her essay, "When We Were Kings", is also in the collection The Drag King Anthology, edited by Troka, Kathleen LeBesco, and Jean Bobby Noble.)
- Donna Jean Troka, writing in Bitch magazine in 2000. (Her essay, "When We Were Kings", is also in the collection The Drag King Anthology, edited by Troka, Kathleen LeBesco, and Jean Bobby Noble.)