Word: genderism
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Starecheski notes the importance of body language in constructing a gender image. “Think about what it’s like to ride the subway and to share public space with men,” she says. “Men generally take up as much space as their body size will allow. Women sit or stand in public as if they’re always willing to move at the slightest provocation. It’s like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, I’ll get out of your way. This isn?...
...this kind of hyperfeminine drag performance that makes some students of queer theory doubt whether drag can be the liberating gender trouble that it aspires to be. For some, drag merely perpetuates stereotypes of how men and women ought to look...
...relates story about a male friend who had asked her help in preparing for the bingo night. “He said he wanted to look ‘elegant,’” says Lee, “But if drag is supposed to be subverting gender, why does it always refer to one specific stereotype of women? What is the relationship between elegance and femininity? That often isn’t questioned in drag events...
...little uncomfortable with this advice, just as I am also uncomfortable with acting like an asshole in order to better pass as a man. What kind of gender standards are we subverting here, when we rely on stereotypes of masculinity and femininity to make it all seem believable...
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...