Word: genderism
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...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...
...literature concentrator who describes herself as “a cranky and embittered Cancer,” also has “a problem with the way it seems like [the event] could be trivializing to people who have daily experiences with gender dysphoria.” Given the absence of a transgender or transsexual visibility on campus, she says, the occasional occurrence of cross-dressing as a staged spectacle seems to disrespect people who opt to live differently-gendered...
...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...
...stuff isn’t usually done for spectacle, but I don’t have an interest in saying that people shouldn’t do something that they enjoy,” says Sarah, the transsexual senior. “I think on all levels [drag] breaks gender boundaries. Just because some people do it for fun doesn’t necessarily denigrate the fact that some people do it seriously...
Though she couldn’t make it to Drag Bingo, Sarah says, “I love hanging out with people who transcend social boundaries, whether it be gender, sexuality, whatever. Bingo night would probably have been a cool place to hang...