It was by some unfortunate circumstance long ago before trans people got a voice in the matter, drag queens sahawed their purfumed selfs up under the trans umbrellas. One Drag queen a particularly nasty man has done it again. The next offensive? A quip on the October 29th Drag Race episode by RuPaul:
Comedienne Vicki Lawrence asked, “Hey Ru, what’s the difference between a drag queen and a transsexual?”
RuPaul laughingly replies, “About twenty-five thousand dollars and a good surgeon.”
Matting of makeup and hitching your penis between your legs for a occasional night of fun at others expense doesn't make you trans, it just makes you an obnoxious man in a dress. That's all. Being in drag for a few hours doesn't give you the right or even the life experience to speak for trans people.
For all his denials Rupaul knows perfectly well how hurtful 'tranny' is. He used the pejorative to lash out!
On Lance Bass's apology for using the word "tranny," Rupaul says: "It's ridiculous! It's ridiculous!... I love the word "tranny"...And I hate the fact that he's apologized. I wish he would have said, 'F-you, you tranny jerk!'
Huffpost Interview Jan 14, 2012It's not OK to defame, bully or denigrate others. Not in small groups and certainly not on the world platform that RuPaul has.
2 comments:
^ What Valentine is really saying... 'Oh, pipe down and let us continue mocking you. If people realise that RuPauls slur was offensive, people might start disliking drag queens... then we can no longer warp the same thing that prevents trans women getting a job into the thing that helps drag queens stay on stage.'
Agreed.
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