What's the...the 'point' of a Drag Show?

[Serenata67]

@KarlGrenze

Serenata, I’d love to see that performance. To me, part of going to a drag queen show is seeing men impersonating sexy, confident women. The kind of woman other women would want to be.

Imagine my disappointment when, at the one and only drag king I attended, the women were impersonating… well, insecure, needy, zero-confidence teenage boys. The kind men grudgingly admit being at some point in their lives, and are glad they’ve grown up away from that.

I feel bad for you Karl. While I’m a woman who is big into “girl power,” there are just things a guy can get away with that a woman can’t. I’d get all macho, hit on girls, pretend to know everything about football (but get shown up by a “girl” who knows more). It was fun to be a dude.

[Ura-Maru]

Wait, you were in a drag show with an 80’s sitcom theme? Did you do Sledge Hammer? That would be awesome!

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You know, that was a joke, but that’s a really good idea. I would watch the crap out of that, and I’m a straight guy.

[gaffa]

To follow-up my earlier post, I searched to find if there was any info on the drag club in Kansas City. Turns out someone has collected a lot of stuff. Here is the link.. If memory serves, the family friend was Skip Arnold, and is in a couple of pictures on that page.

[Nava]

@coremelt

If you aren’t a gay man or at least somewhat open to that idea then forget about it, you’re not the target audience.

It’s raunchy comedy for the most part, which sometimes includes political or cultural satire. In the 1970’s drag was part of establishing a gay identity, the exaggerated femininity is a reaction against the fact that most gay man before the 70’s were closeted and had to hide their feminine aspects.

It doesn’t even have to be that kind of drag…

There are male comics who include female characters among their repertoire and the characters are supposed to be as sexy as… as a late-middle-aged housewive in a thick robe, curlers and towelcloth flip-flops can be. Or an all-in-black, hair-in-a-bun grandmother. Wait a minute, that’s exactly what the comics are dressed up as! (google images for “morancos” for an example) While the specific cultural stereotype they’re making fun of is as big a target for female comics, some of the twists and jokes a man will do/be culturally allowed/allow himself are different from those of a woman. A female comic dressed up as a female policeman will also run different jokes than one dressed up as a male policeman. In these cases, the actor in drag is not trying to “pass”, but exaggerating hers own gender’s view of the gestures and behaviours of the other half. The “middle aged housewife” will puff up her chest in a way that most big-chested women specifically avoid; the “policeman” will rearrange his pants about as discreetely as a three-year-old boy, something any housebroken guy has learned not to do. As in so many visual gags, a lot of the joke is in the exaggeration.

[Siam_Sam]

@Siam_Sam

There are a couple of major transvestite cabarets in Pattaya, over on our Eastern Seaboard: Tiffany and Alcatraz. Can’t seem to find a working website, though. The tour buses line up every night. One or two in Bangkok also, but the Pattaya shows are the big ones.

Ah, no wonder I could not find a working website for one of those. It’s not Alcatraz, which is actually a new go-go bar in Pattaya (theme is girls behind bars), but rather Alcazar. Website here. And although it was not working when I posted earlier, the Tiffany website is now back up.