Moments of Permanence - September 18th, 2011

About September 18th, 2011

A realisation 02:30 pm
Having just glanced through the Miss Universe costumes, I have realised something about my own prejudices:

Apparently, the primary marker for the cutoff between "she looks like a woman in a costume" and "she looks like a drag queen" in my head is: "Is she wearing a massive, spangly headdress?"

Massive spangly headdress = drag queen. No headdress or non-massive/non-spangly headdress = woman in costume.

I blame... well, drag shows, really, for this. There's no logical reason why a real woman wouldn't want to wear a massive spangly headdress just as much as a transvestite, and yet, and yet.

(I nearly said "tranny" there, but then I remembered the weird-to-me disconnect between, apparently, the local queer community at the time when I was a part of it and the internet, because the internet seems in agreement that that is an offensive word for a transgender person, whereas in the local queer community, at least back when I was a part of it, it was very definitely a generic, non-offensive word for a cisgendered transvestite, and the idea of the definition the internet seems to agree upon still weirds me out. I'm not sure why. I think it's just disconcerting in that whole, "You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means," way. And the, "what the what is this I don't even," way. (The generic term for a trans woman was "woman". Because seriously what is wrong with you people.))
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