# Appropriate Pronoun for a Drag Queen **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 19, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-pronoun-for-a-drag-queen/631965 "2012-08-19T15:08:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-pronoun-for-a-drag-queen/631965/41 "2012-08-22T12:23:39Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > droopy-handed (sorry, can’t remember the English term Limp-wristed. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-pronoun-for-a-drag-queen/631965/42 "2012-08-22T12:30:33Z")
> [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#): > > Really? You can thing of any occasion when calling a person “it” isn’t an insult? > “The graduate will walk down the aisle, enter the stage from the left, and then after it accepts its diploma, it will shake hands with the principal.” > > Nope, even in a truly gender neutral, non-insulting use, “it” isn’t going to fly. In a [third person neutral](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_person) narrative like “It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. Yes Precious, it gets the hose!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-pronoun-for-a-drag-queen/631965/43 "2012-08-22T13:27:44Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Limp-wristed. Thank you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-pronoun-for-a-drag-queen/631965/44 "2012-08-22T19:28:56Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > In a [third person neutral](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_person) narrative like “It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. Yes Precious, it gets the hose!” 😃 Or “If you liked it, then you should’ve put a ring on it.” 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-pronoun-for-a-drag-queen/631965/45 "2012-08-22T20:17:44Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > I forgot that this board was filled with polite proper people. :dubious: Sorry! 🙂 Nothing to do with “this board.” A person is NOT an “it.” Period. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-pronoun-for-a-drag-queen/631965/46 "2012-08-22T20:23:54Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > Or “If you liked it, then you should’ve put a ring on it.” 🆒 If you liked [the relationship], then you should have put a ring on [my finger]. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-pronoun-for-a-drag-queen/631965/47 "2012-08-23T15:31:57Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > If you liked [the relationship], then you should have put a ring on [my finger]. Hmm. I had a somewhat cruder interpretation of the first “it.” ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-pronoun-for-a-drag-queen/631965/48 "2012-08-23T15:44:32Z")
I’m a prude. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-pronoun-for-a-drag-queen/631965/49 "2012-08-23T16:03:58Z")
To my mind, “she” is the character, “he” is the non-transsexual gay guy playing the character. Peter Pan doesn’t become a “she” when Sandy Duncan is playing him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-pronoun-for-a-drag-queen/631965.md?page=2)