It’s projection. Always has been.
It’s a Halloween pic, but yeah everyone who’s crossdressed at Halloween is queer. That’s not offensive in any way.
This type of journalism is desperate and pathetic. Also patheticis the general acceptance of this shitty journalism by lazy readers looking for a "slam* rather than meaningful information.
Bingo. Crossdressing is not necessarily drag. Me and a bunch of my friends from my high school drama club crossdressed because we only had around two women in the club.
And this “Gotcha journalism” is pretty much repackaged populism. Don’t give it headlines because someone crossdressed, give it headlines because it is an insult to the separation of powers and literally paves the way for a totalitarian regime to raise.
See, it’s different for him!
I’m not even joking. The hatred of drag queens is a totally different type of bigotry from the kind of bigotry of old school comedy drag.
See, drag queens are lesser because they’re gay men dressing in an exaggeration of female standards, mimicking women that need to be kept in their place.
The kind of drag that he’s connected to is making fun of women and saying that any man dressing as a woman must be hilarious because that would make them less manly, and thus it’s funny instead of perverse.
Okay, maybe it isn’t actually a different type of bigotry, but the kind of people that do that kind of drag really don’t think of it as the same thing at all. Milton Berle in dress is hilarious; ru Paul in a dress is disgusting (in their minds). It comes down to ingrained misogyny as a core value. What? They didn’t say that “family values” meant keeping women in their inferior place out loud? It’s a core value of that entire way of thinking.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks
William Shakespeare
