LGBT: Can you explain how drag is any different than blackface?

Settle down and think about it. At how the portrails are fundamentally different. Blackface was more often then not comedic, and that plays into it stereotyping blacks in a bad, foolish, less intelligent light.

Drag is however NOT stereotyping or offensive in itent or execution. It is emulating a look/lifestyle that the male in question is fond and has some respect for. Its not implyingball women are a certain way, it could be over-the-top and exagerated, but it could be more casual to the point of apearing as a normal everyday lady

Dressing and acting as a woman could theoretically be drawn back to ancient greek/ roman days where male actors had to play and dress as females for ceetain roles. These were dramas and epics, exploring the faults of humanity and thier own religion.

Wtf reported ..........

Yess that’s cool

Drag isn't really dressing as a women does. Outside of festivals or pageants and stuff have you ever seen a women dressed like a drag queen dresses?

On another point, some of these 'men' are transgender and identify as women. Are they still appropriating? If not then neither is the regular guy who dresses in drag.

And honestly, they're not appropriating a culture or being disrespectful to women. Let them do them.

Another way you could consider this is drag is like cosplay.

I missed the issue.

Yours is like arguing that because people in the suburbs mow their lawn you demand that high rise residents should have to vacuum the stair way carpet.

If a few men on a Saturday night want to down some alcohol and then put on a frock and sing (mime) a tune or two, what is the link between that and a professional entertainer impersonating a black person but even more challenging is how you can think we have a view on this one way or the other??? ?

Dark skin tone is not very culturally modulated. Skin bleachers and hair straightening exist but that's about it. Gender performance is entirely culturally modulated. Blackface is something one makes a decision to do. The way gender incongruence works, the performative features are almost entirely subconscious. But if you're specifically talking about drag as opposed to trans stuff, I have to admit that makes me feel very uncomfortable and invalidating.

People in drag are often tribute performers. And actually, entertainers like Al Jolsen performed in blackface as a tribute to Black people whose music and styles he emulated, people who themselves weren't allowed in those theaters and auditoriums.

ETA: In the history of theater, men portraying women was never intended to mock women.

Drag is meant to be sarcastic and funny. Blackface is belittling and hateful.

Drag is not dressing up and performing as a woman. Drag is an act. It is a caricature but it doesn't denigrate women in any way. Blackface is also a caricature but a hurtful one and it denigrates the people it caricatures.

On the other hand, I have no problem with people playing characters on stage that have skin colour different from their own. I see no reason why a "white" actor should not play Othello if "black" actors can play Hamlet and King Lear - which they have done. I have a DVD of James Earl Jones playing Lear and he's very good.

If actors can only play characters of their own ethnicity it limits their performances. Anthony Quinn was born in Mexico but played Greeks, Italians, Arabs, Americans, French men, a Chinese emperor, a Romanian, a Ukrainian Pope and many other characters. Why shouldn't he?

Many women find drag funny, the same cannot be said about blackface or the historic oppression it represents.