Gender bending...
Gender bending...
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0Gender bending...
Posted: 7/21/05 at 5:46pm
Why is it that, while female impersonators get loads of attention, male impersonators get none. Do they even exist? The last time I've seen a woman dress as a man is Just One of the Guys, that 80s teen flick.
Is it because, while women have women's only-clothing, men cannot boast the same? You can regularly see women wearing "men's clothing" on a daily basis and yet the same is not said of men wearing women's clothing. Perhaps this is why male impersonators never get any attention.
OR...
Should I perhaps lie down and go to sleep for a while?
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#1re: Gender bending...
Posted: 7/21/05 at 6:05pmSex And The City has an episode where Kristin Davis(Charlotte) does drag.
#2re: Gender bending...
Posted: 7/21/05 at 6:06pmThere are a few shows around Seattle that feature Drag Kings.
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Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#3re: Gender bending...
Posted: 7/21/05 at 6:47pmIf you want to be horribly cynical about it, you could say that people only get attention when imitating their social inferiors, because imitating your superiors is perfectly understandable behavior. Hence blackface performers and drag queens get more attention than biracial people "passing" as white or drag kings.
#4re: Gender bending...
Posted: 7/21/05 at 7:03pm
There are many Drag Kings in NYC. The majority of them perform at Lesbian bars. However - in stating my opinion on the matter, i find DQ's to be more entertaining, in the mere fact that there is more variety in how to glamourize a female. I.E. when watching red carpet shows...who's more interesting - the woman's variety of "gownage" (A Justice word) - or the tedious Tux???
Plus Drag Queen's have more icons to follow, like Judy, liza, etc. and more signature camp songs than DK's have.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
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#5re: Gender bending...
Posted: 7/22/05 at 7:04amWell Julie Andrews made a wonderful man in VICTOR/VICTORIA.
#6re: Gender bending...
Posted: 7/22/05 at 7:55ambut Julie was playing a man who was a DQ.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
#7re: Gender bending...
Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:07pmI'm afraid to bend my gender. What if it breaks?
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#8re: Gender bending...
Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:08pm
there are more than enough people here who will nurse it back to health for you.
anyways... i love drag kings. i think they're awsome.
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"My brother plays a drag queen... and I'm surprised he looks as good as he does in drag." - Adam Rapp
"thanks, abba. now i'll forever have an image of you as a tattoed hardcore straightedge grrl savaging people in the mosh pit." - papalovesmambo
"Yeah Abba. All the filthy crap you spew out there on those boards. I for one, am equally shocked. :-P" - AnnaK
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