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...There are some critiques of drag, even—or especially—in gay communities,” he says. “It presents a conundrum, because it might be perceived as misogynistic. It tends to perpetuate stereotypes of a certain kind of woman...
...stereotypical African-American, lower-class woman, or a ‘glamorous’ woman,” he says. “And even if it seems laudatory of ‘glamorous women,’ the danger in putting on an event like this is that drag has a way of denying or complicating identity standards for women...
Other the other hand, carefully taking a page from Judith Butler, Zahr says, “Drag is also a hyperbolic performance of gender in order to destabilize any normative or confining notion of gender. It’s important to highlight the difference in order to undermine it. There’s a power in being conscious...
...some ways, queer critiques of drag can seem like unconstructive navel-gazing: it’s infighting within the queer community about how to best destabilize gender, when it’s a small miracle that any kind of gender destabilization happens at all. The weird truth of it is that even a small-scale drag event like Drag Bingo is pretty damned subversive for Harvard, where bricks are red, blood is blue, and “queer” more often than not means bobo gay boys partying with other bobo gay boys...
...true that when drag means drunkenly borrowing the girl down the hall’s leopard print bra for an initiation ritual—as it often does—can be disrespectful to transgender or transsexual people. However, it can also be unbecoming of a queer theorist to suggest that trans-people are the only ones who have the right to dress outside the gender box. You don’t have to be trans to use drag to criticize traditional gender roles...