The familiar ideal of the “powerful bitch” is a fiction, the intentional conflation of our dual myths of gender: the beautiful, objectified WOMAN and the rational, powerful MAN. Gay men, already occupying some position in-between these two myths, have historically utilized the “powerful bitch” ideal as a tool of expression. This form of expression is known as drag. The only way to mediate the obvious binary-sexism of drag (its reinforcement of a conservative and essentialist conception of male and female difference) is to accept it as myth-making and myth-manipulation (to dispense with any claims of its “realness” or “imitation”). As such, drag is something that we can all do, and in so doing, we can have a bit of fun with our myths about power, intelligence, beauty, sex.
Turn yourself into a drag queen at www.dragulator.com. It’s a riot.
The familiar ideal of the “powerful bitch” is a fiction, the intentional conflation of our dual myths of gender: the beautiful, objectified WOMAN and the rational, powerful MAN. Gay men, already occupying some position in-between these two myths, have historically utilized the “powerful bitch” ideal as a tool of expression. This form of expression is known as drag. The only way to mediate the obvious binary-sexism of drag (its reinforcement of a conservative and essentialist conception of male and female difference) is to accept it as myth-making and myth-manipulation (to dispense with any claims of its “realness” or “imitation”). As such, drag is something that we can all do, and in so doing, we can have a bit of fun with our myths about power, intelligence, beauty, sex.
Turn yourself into a drag queen at www.dragulator.com. It’s a riot.
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