A spokesperson for the Greens Minister for Cultural Gender Realignment has today blasted a drag queen popular with punters in St. Kilda, Melbourne, for reinforcing patriarchal stereotypes of women:
‘We have been working tirelessly to either outlaw the sale, or at least mandate the alteration, of barbie dolls. When grown men deign to dress as a gender with which they do not identify, yet present themselves in that gender role as, effectively, an unreformed barbie doll, it sets our cause back decades.
‘Look, it’s 2016. Everybody knows that a woman does not have to conform to traditional notions of femininity in order to identify as a woman, so for men to be presenting such a retrograde image of women is disappointing, damaging to female self-esteem, and slightly intrusive.
‘In particular, myself and my friends do not conform to such gender stereotypes. Most of us have short hair, frumpy bodies, eschew glitter, and it has been years since any of us looked absolutely fabulous in a pair of stilettos. Why, these days, with such open, fluid and inclusive understandings of what constitutes femininity, men dressing as women could well dress as, well, men.’
The drag queen in question has been sentenced by the AFL to a public flogging next Saturday night. He says he is relieved to have gotten off so lightly.
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