@wednesday@ni.hil.ist i think they do make fun of masculinity, quite often (drag kings are a thing!)
but i think all art has to initiate some level of "the common" in their communication for any communication to occur. like, when i describe gender roles to people who may not have questioned this stuff before i have to make reference to stereotype: "You know how women tend to wear makeup and men don't? How men tend to have short hair and women have long hair?"
i do think drag plays into stereotypes, but i think usually to explore them, play with them, ironically twist and invert them. yknow? it all depends on the particular drag show. i'm sure there's plenty that are uh... less "aware" than others, like, i'm not the biggest fan of drag, personally, but, idk, just my thoughts~!
@wednesday@ni.hil.ist i'll add that, yes i think there is a tendency to stereotype feminity more than masculininity... i think it makes sense given the historical moments these developed in. in the history of queerness, and specifically drag, we're dealing with a moment in time where masculinity was the paradigm under which these gay people were judged. they were "too flamboyant" "too feminine" "too faggy" or whatever, yknow? so their social-bodies developed a way to play with that.
