I've never understood the appeal of drag. If you like women, fine, go to their performances. If you like men, go to theirs. If you like hermaphrodytes, seek them out. Otherwise, a man dressed as a woman calling himself "she" and "a girl" while lip synching for dollar bills must, from my perspective, be an acquired taste. I don't want advice on how to acquire it.
I've never understood the appeal of drag. If you like women, fine, go to their performances. If you like men, go to theirs. If you like hermaphrodytes, seek them out. Otherwise, a man dressed as a woman calling himself "she" and "a girl" while lip synching for dollar bills must, from my perspective, be an acquired taste. I don't want advice on how to acquire it.
Today's so-called drag shows look about as entertaining as Joe Biden reading Rodney Dangerfield jokes off a teleprompter for the first time.
My Mom took me to see the show at old Finocchio's Club in San Francisco in the early 70's when I was 20 or so. It was hilarious and fun, if adult-only. The entertainers had real talent, could sing, could dance. Some were transvestites, some were gay, some were just working a gig. It was all very campy, risque, and satirical. But that was the point.
Now, the entertainment is gone, and all that left is just offensiveness.
Like every other good thing co-opted by the neo-Marxists to advance their idiotic intersectional politics, drag has been enlisted to "subvert heteronormativity" and "grind glitter into the carpet."
Couple things about neo-Marxists, first they know little of Marxism, as they're just in it for the power over others. Secondly, that which they cant control they seek to destroy. Oddly enough, that which they can control, they destroy as well. Kinda like human locusts. Or fire ants.
A reading of Marx is not required. To over-simplify the matter, neo-Marxism abandoned the class struggle for the "liberation of oppressed minorities." Adorno and Marcuse are the main neo-Marxist political theorists. Critical studies is its vector within universities, outside the academy from K-graduate school, DIE policies in HR departments everywhere and the trans-sexual/gay political lobby are the main areas where the theory is put into practice.
Of course if you "deconstruct" these theories further, its all just one person thinking they know best about how other folks need to live their lives. The justifications are endlessly recycled through academe. It is second oldest profession. And not 2nd by much.
There are plenty of great campy drag shows in San Francisco today, at The Oasis and Asia SF. I wonder if Proud Boys are going to start showing up with guns to try and intimidate patrons.
If the activists and their idiot "progressive" parents don't try to bring their kids, I doubt it.
Besides, who in their right minds ventures into SF at night now anyway? Last time I was there I kept flashing on "Escape from New York", and I ain't Snake Plissken.
The working class people who serve these rich pigs can't afford to live in the city, but must commute from as far away as Gilroy.
Their mealy-mouthed rulers don't have the sense to pour piss out of a boot, and together they have created a hellscape in which your six-figure citizens live in fortified compounds with full video surveillance, avoiding the chaos and street encampments in places like the Tenderlolin, going from renovated Victorian to Chinatown for dinner via Uber, carefully avoiding panhandlers and human feces between the curb and the entrance.
I've never understood the appeal of drag. If you like women, fine, go to their performances. If you like men, go to theirs. If you like hermaphrodytes, seek them out. Otherwise, a man dressed as a woman calling himself "she" and "a girl" while lip synching for dollar bills must, from my perspective, be an acquired taste. I don't want advice on how to acquire it.
Have fun, guys, but without me. I don't watch soap opera or CNN either. ;-)
Today's so-called drag shows look about as entertaining as Joe Biden reading Rodney Dangerfield jokes off a teleprompter for the first time.
My Mom took me to see the show at old Finocchio's Club in San Francisco in the early 70's when I was 20 or so. It was hilarious and fun, if adult-only. The entertainers had real talent, could sing, could dance. Some were transvestites, some were gay, some were just working a gig. It was all very campy, risque, and satirical. But that was the point.
Now, the entertainment is gone, and all that left is just offensiveness.
Like every other good thing co-opted by the neo-Marxists to advance their idiotic intersectional politics, drag has been enlisted to "subvert heteronormativity" and "grind glitter into the carpet."
Couple things about neo-Marxists, first they know little of Marxism, as they're just in it for the power over others. Secondly, that which they cant control they seek to destroy. Oddly enough, that which they can control, they destroy as well. Kinda like human locusts. Or fire ants.
A reading of Marx is not required. To over-simplify the matter, neo-Marxism abandoned the class struggle for the "liberation of oppressed minorities." Adorno and Marcuse are the main neo-Marxist political theorists. Critical studies is its vector within universities, outside the academy from K-graduate school, DIE policies in HR departments everywhere and the trans-sexual/gay political lobby are the main areas where the theory is put into practice.
You people have it all wrong. If you want a generation to grow up despising Neo-Marxists, introduce Marcuse and Adorno into the 5th-grade curriculum.
Gotta admit, that would do it.
Of course if you "deconstruct" these theories further, its all just one person thinking they know best about how other folks need to live their lives. The justifications are endlessly recycled through academe. It is second oldest profession. And not 2nd by much.
There are plenty of great campy drag shows in San Francisco today, at The Oasis and Asia SF. I wonder if Proud Boys are going to start showing up with guns to try and intimidate patrons.
If the activists and their idiot "progressive" parents don't try to bring their kids, I doubt it.
Besides, who in their right minds ventures into SF at night now anyway? Last time I was there I kept flashing on "Escape from New York", and I ain't Snake Plissken.
Also this:
What are the median and average incomes in San Francisco? top
The average annual household income in San Francisco is $167,663, while the median household income sits at $119,136 per year.
The working class people who serve these rich pigs can't afford to live in the city, but must commute from as far away as Gilroy.
Their mealy-mouthed rulers don't have the sense to pour piss out of a boot, and together they have created a hellscape in which your six-figure citizens live in fortified compounds with full video surveillance, avoiding the chaos and street encampments in places like the Tenderlolin, going from renovated Victorian to Chinatown for dinner via Uber, carefully avoiding panhandlers and human feces between the curb and the entrance.
https://www.timeout.com/san-francisco/travel/san-francisco-best-city-in-the-world
Nice place to visit.
NOt even that anymore.
It started going downhill in the 1990s with the dot.com boom. I left in the early 2000s, and was so glad to leave it behind.
Maybe if these enlightened patrons of the arts bring their minor children . . . but surely antifa will be there to protect them.
I went to a live drag showing of the Rocky Horror Show at the Oasis and it was fantastic. 21 and up of course, because itтАЩs a bar.
To my point. I'll bet that was entertaining and campy as hell. Given the material it would kinda hafta be.
On another related topic, you ever get the chance to go see "Beach Blanket Babylon"?
Yeah it was great. Yes I saw Beach Blanket Babylon twice. Too bad itтАЩs not still running.
So many memories.......
I miss me a walking crab cocktail, and some abalone or sand dabs!