All very well, but…I can’t help wondering about a parallel BBC news item on a two day blackface convention. Would that happen?
DragCon UK: Drag queens gather for two-day convention
What do we think? Would there be a headline reading
“BlackfaceCon UK: Blackface minstrels gather for two-day convention”?
No, of course there wouldn’t.
Would there be a headline reading
“TowelheadCon UK: Turban-wearers gather for two-day convention”?
Nope.
Why is it ok to mock women but not other despised groups?
The BBC provides photo after photo of men clownishly dressed and shod and made up and hair-puffed.
… Read the restAround 180 queens “sashayed” down the pink carpet for the official opening of the event before being welcomed by one of the judges on