jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 6 months agoGeorge Santos's latest money-making plot? Reviving his drag persona, Kitara Ravachewww.advocate.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down16
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minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agowhile 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 I might be out of date on that one, though.
minus-squarexmunk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoDifferent 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.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months ago 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.
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 I might be out of date on that one, though.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.