Take the very different attitudes towards drag queens and “blackface” entertainers. It is OK, even laudable, for men to dress up as a grotesque parody of the opposite sex, but very much not OK for white performers, in a similar travesty, to sing My Mammy with boot polish on their faces.
I can only say that fashions change. Perhaps in fifty years, it’ll be perfectly reasonable for we loathsome white untermensch to imitate our God-ordained Black masters.
I note that there used to be a bounty on crocodiles in Oz. They’re now protected. And possibly one day the fashions will change again, and it’ll be obscene for blokes to dress up as birds.
“It is OK, even laudable for men to dress up as a grotesque parody of the opposite sex…….“.
No it isn’t, not to most of us. Al Beeb and those on the left know it is repelant to normal people which is why they force it upon us. Like Labour “rubbing our noses” in diversity.
Tolerate – putting up with something you don’t want to put up with.
Bogan, I saw a programme about this bloke in Oz who rescues crocs but also breeds them for their skins….. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p022fwvx.
Not shown in this clip is the abbatoir where he kills and skins the crocs, for belts and handbags………
Jon Bishop is a vegetarian and was very uncomfortable, but accepted it was one way to keep the species going.
I note that it is still somewhat acceptable for “entertainers” to cover their faces in pure white paint, apply grotesque smile and eye makeup, and pretend to be incompetent. Some call them “clowns”.
Interesting viewpoint of Mr Bishop’s. I wonder what his views would be on a similar method of keeping the Jon Bishops going?
The next step is that it will be considered not OK for women to dress as and imitate trannies
……apply grotesque smile and eye makeup, and pretend to be incompetent. Some call them “clowns.
I call them white males in TV commercials (maybe not always with eye makeup).
There was an article in the Grauniad not long ago about a TV show called “Blackface”.
The Guardian made it sound absolutely fucking hilarious:
In a personal look at the shocking origins of minstrelsy, the actor speaks truth to power on the same channel that showed blackface in his living room when he was growing up
But it’s white people who are fragile. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Take the very different attitudes towards drag queens and “blackface” entertainers.
Depends on who’s holding the attitudes, doesn’t it? Wasn’t that long ago you’res truly got blacked up & did a medley of minstrel numbers for a giggle. To enthusiastic approval. Including my black amiga helped me put the slap on. And we’ve been known to frock-up & take the piss out the trannies as well.
Far as I’m concerned all this shit takes place in some far foreign land of which I know little. Even when I lived there.
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August 20, 2023 at 8:33 am
“It is OK, even laudable for men to dress up as a grotesque parody of the opposite sex…….“.
No it isn’t, not to most of us. Al Beeb and those on the left know it is repelant to normal people…
Perhaps you should read about Danny La Rue who was a favourite on TV and on stage, or watch some of Les Dawson’s sketches, or go to Pantomime, or watch video of Lily Savage.
What isn’t acceptable is the ideological conditioning that rather then being entertainment or at the margins, it’s a biological characteristic of the Human species, that it’s not make-be.uneven but reality.
John b, I’m 64 and grew up with Danny La Rue, Old mother Riley, Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough. They were not ‘grotesque’ parodies and were not demanding to perform simulated sex acts in front of young children. Neither was Stanley Baxter or Dick Emery. These people are perverts, imho.
Liddle writes “we should increase subsidies to the landowners, provided that they rewild their estates”
I love the idea of a moor populated with drag queens and blackface luvvies. Or maybe that’s not what he meant?
“Drag performances were a staple of minstrel shows” – https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/race-history-drag-thomas-dilward
Minstrel shows included drag performances. Drag then evolved to be a separate show and minstrel shows disappeared.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show#:~:text=The%20minstrel%20show%2C%20also%20called,the%20role%20of%20black%20minstrels.
I recall that The Two Ronnies combined both, dragging up and blacking up to do a parody of a Motown style girl group.
“It is OK, even laudable for men to dress up as a grotesque parody of the opposite sex…….“.
No it isn’t, not to most of us. Al Beeb and those on the left know it is repelant to normal people…
Oh yes it is!
jgh, LOL.
SadButMadLad- yeah i recall that oliver Hardy had, before Stan Laurel days done a lot of female roles in silent movies under the name Babe Hardy, so much so that he was called Babe by his circle throughout his life.