Analysis Of Rupaul's Drag Race

While many people may believe that the primary purpose of drag is to allow men to “pass” as women, assimilation has never been the guiding aesthetic principle at work when homosexual men dress up as barbie dolls on twelve-inch platforms wearing breastplates with rhinestone pasties or slutty Frankensteins in fuck-me pumps and Marge Simpson hair-dos. Only in a minority of cases is naturalism the gay man’s first consideration when he chooses the squalid frocks and sensible shoes of dowdy frumps or the beautiful sequined gowns and turkey-feather boas of femmes fatales, outlandish get-ups that bear only a vague resemblance to what women really wear in their daily lives. The Drag Queen movement is not to be taken seriously. The vulgarity that often comes out of their mouths is just a tiny bit of what they want to be known for but they want their message of why they do drag and how they develop and …show more content…
Well, they don 't. They both represent equality for all but they do it in different ways. At this moment in time drag queens are being recognized because they can reach out to millions of Americans with the platform that is RuPaul 's Drag Race. The TV show 's newfound success brings attention to many political issues and as well promotes gender equality. Drag queens also do something that transgender people don 't, the drag queen doesn’t flee from his gender but actually incorporates it into his ensemble. Nor does he fear disclosure as the transgender does; he invites it. The temporary replacement of a man 's surface with a woman 's allows others to see how gender does not play a role in how well one performs in life. I believe that drag is about pushing boundaries and different varieties. It is a way of playing with different presentations of ourselves which allows us to imagine different possibilities in life. This can be about gender, power, or simply the way we define what beauty