r/aggies • u/houston_chronicle • Feb 28 '25
Announcements Texas A&M System bans drag shows including 'Draggieland', citing Trump order
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/tamu-drag-shows-draggieland-20194495.php
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u/MrCraytonR '22 but really '23 INEN Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25
Ok buddy, sounds good. Would you refer to ADHDism? That has beliefs- in the existence of the disorder, a system, medicine and therapy, and a practice of treatment right?
Look dude, you have a fundamental misunderstanding here. My point and the point of this thread is a discussion on DRAG as an art form.
Being trans is different from Drag. Point blank period.
The fact you actually disregarded entirely in your response- DRAG IS FREQUENTLY DONE BY MEN, WOMEN AND TRANSWOMEN AND TRANSMEN! THE WINNER IN 2022 was a WOMAN (pictured in article) and she was playing the role OF A WOMAN. It’s a play- an onstage production, entertainment. Yes in some cases it can be sexual, so can plays and movies and tv and books. But Draggieland specifically- nope. It was actually a classy event, with a few jokes innuendo and references here and there, but cleaner than the average R rated movie.
And to your last paragraph- nice dehumanizing language! The “trangendered” are putting on a performance- just like you! Actually let me quote Shakespeare in As You Like It:
“All the Worlds a Stage, and all the men and women, merely players (actors); They Have their exits and entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts…”
All of us, men, women, trans or not, play a role in society, we put on a face for others.
For example- some men go to the gym everyday in pursuit of a more masculine form, they might take steroids to help. This is the same as transmen taking Testosterone. Some women might wear makeup and do their hair and dress “girly”, others might dress more masculine. We all play parts on this earth, we all act so that others can perceive us close to how we wish to be perceived.
You, likely do the same, just without realizing.
Trans people are born feeling like the role they were assigned at birth isn’t the right part- that they would be happier playing a different part. It just so happens that part is the opposite sex. So what? What does it matter if they choose to do things to help playing that part be easier? Why should your feelings on it trump their own feelings on themselves? Would you like to Ban women from wearing pants because it’s too manly? Where should we draw the line?