Clothes are just clothes - they aren’t a determiner of gender
Except when those clothes make a character/persona. Drag characters/personas are by definition female unless stated otherwise, regardless of the gender identity of the performer.
That “unless stated otherwise” is doing a lot of heavy lifting to keep your statement technically correct - there are plenty of drag performers that I’m familiar with that prefer masculine or gender neutral pronouns.
This all comes back to the original comment above that blithely used “she” even though I don’t believe Santos has ever stated how they’d like to be referred when wearing drag.
there are plenty of drag performers that I’m familiar with that prefer masculine or gender neutral pronouns.
Plenty but nowhere near enough to be the norm.
This all comes back to the original comment above that blithely used “she” even though I don’t believe Santos has ever stated how they’d like to be referred when wearing drag.
Again, the accepted rule in the drag community is that the CHARACTER is to be referred to as female unless otherwise stated.
Referring to drag characters using male or certain gender neutral pronouns such as “it” is widely considered to be a sign of bigotry unless the performer has specifically said to.
“George” “Santos” hasn’t, so the correct and non-bigoted pronouns are feminine ones.
Obviously “it” is trash, but “they” is a perfectly fine gender neutral term. The community is a lot wider than it once was and generalizing all performers to feminine pronouns is just a bad idea. Gender neutral is a good default.
So glad this guy got kicked out. The fact that it took so long makes me want to kick out the corrupt politicians who supported him as well.
Any bets on her ass getting kicked out of the Drag scene, too?
I mean, it’s not like the other drag queens are going to forget what he said about them… or the rank hypocrisy
I just want to see the drag bar full of Log Cabin Republicans pretending to be Not Gay.
I never understood log cabin republicans. like. you know?
Religious conservatism mixed with an unflinching need to get dicked down. Think Senator Lindsey Graham.
Basically Jews for Hitler.
To my knowledge George Santos practices drag but doesn’t identify as trans. When in doubt it’s good to just use they/them.
while they’re in drag, it’s generally customary to use ‘she’. Outside of drag… it’s whatever they prefer. I might be out of date on that one, though.
Different performers have different preferences - there isn’t a universe rule.
Clothes are just clothes - they aren’t a determiner of gender and different folks have different motivations for why they want to wear drag.
Except when those clothes make a character/persona. Drag characters/personas are by definition female unless stated otherwise, regardless of the gender identity of the performer.
That “unless stated otherwise” is doing a lot of heavy lifting to keep your statement technically correct - there are plenty of drag performers that I’m familiar with that prefer masculine or gender neutral pronouns.
This all comes back to the original comment above that blithely used “she” even though I don’t believe Santos has ever stated how they’d like to be referred when wearing drag.
Plenty but nowhere near enough to be the norm.
Again, the accepted rule in the drag community is that the CHARACTER is to be referred to as female unless otherwise stated.
Referring to drag characters using male or certain gender neutral pronouns such as “it” is widely considered to be a sign of bigotry unless the performer has specifically said to.
“George” “Santos” hasn’t, so the correct and non-bigoted pronouns are feminine ones.
Obviously “it” is trash, but “they” is a perfectly fine gender neutral term. The community is a lot wider than it once was and generalizing all performers to feminine pronouns is just a bad idea. Gender neutral is a good default.
You should want to kick out corrupt politicians for other reasons.