FabSwingers.com mobile

Join us FREE, we're FREE to use

Web's largest swingers site since 2006.

Already registered?
Login here

Back to forum list
Back to The Lounge

Will drag acts become outdated

Jump to newest
 

By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Just watching the tackily fantastic "bargain living Brits in the sun" on these series they seem to always have a spotlight on drag acts.

With the world getting more and more fearsome of insulting anyone, will the act of dressing up as a woman and the word drag be seen as tasteless some day.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's unlikely considering shows like Ru Paul's drag race are super popular.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

Only if women felt threatened by it. And I have never met a woman who did, so No, I don't think so.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It’ll always be popular

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *isaAndNicoleTransTV/TS
over a year ago

Southport / Ellesmere Port


"Just watching the tackily fantastic "bargain living Brits in the sun" on these series they seem to always have a spotlight on drag acts.

With the world getting more and more fearsome of insulting anyone, will the act of dressing up as a woman and the word drag be seen as tasteless some day."

Can't see why the word drag would be seen as tasteless ever. It simply derives its meaning from "dressed as a girl" and lots of us do it.

Love the programme too, by the way

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *iscreetfuncpl12Couple
over a year ago

Somerset

I feel as stupid as a very stupid person, as it had never occurred to me that drag was an acronym.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No they'll never be outdated because to me they've always been about more than just the drag aspect. They're often hilarious or great singers too or great tribute acts. Omg the times I've seen a Shirley Bassey or an ABBA tribute back in the clubs in the eighties and nineties. Happy memories

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

There is a small but vociferous group of women who protest against drag acts.

Considering that its a tradition that goes back centuries it would be a shame if they died out

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Travelling


"There is a small but vociferous group of women who protest against drag acts.

Considering that its a tradition that goes back centuries it would be a shame if they died out"

It will clearly be challenge, the SJW movement will eventually turn on it once it is in need of something new to challenge and complain against. It is how they generally work.

That's not to say it will have any success in their challenge but just wait as it has never stopped certain people trying before.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *lem-H-FandangoMan
over a year ago

salisbury

Hopefully one day we'll look back on them as we do The Black and White minstrel show today.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

I have a feeling the whole scene will be eaten up one day in the name of progress.

Which will be a crying shame as I can’t for the life of me see anything exclusive about it.

Went to see Charlie Hides not so long ago was brilliant. Side act bit iffy though.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Interesting (Google) fact for the night.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word “drag” has existed since at least 1388, but it wasn’t until the 19th century that it was used in connection with performing in clothes or a persona different from your own gender.

In 1870, the Reynolds Newspaper in the United Kingdom printed the word in a gender-bending context in reference to a party invitation. “‘We shall come in drag,’ which means men wearing women’s costumes,” the paper read.

This definition probably originated in the theatre of the late 1800s, where male performers wore petticoats to perform as women. Their petticoats would drag on the floor, and so they referred to dressing up as women as “putting on their drags.”

By the 1920s, the term “drag” was being used by gay people. One theory is that it entered the community from Polari, a secret language born out of the criminalization of homosexuality in England that drew on theatre slang.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

People have a desire to be entertained, so talent will pull them in

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 
 

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"There is a small but vociferous group of women who protest against drag acts.

Considering that its a tradition that goes back centuries it would be a shame if they died out"

There's a small but vociferous group of people who object to just about everything these days. I've never seen it as misogynistic in any way whatsoever. It's just entertainment and theatre.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
Post new Message to Thread
back to top