Drag is a humorous exaggeration of the sexual characteristics of women and the fun of the over-the-top glamour women are allowed to engage in, which men are not. As a woman who's not on the lookout for ways to be offended, I don't find it dehumanizing. Drag queens are campy and their acts are often very funny. People don't normally LIVE like that full-time. It's historically been adult entertainment that takes place in nightclubs where adults go to perform or be entertained, if that's their cup of tea. That's where it belongs, not in kindergarten classes.
I think the hysteria about blackface is overblown, too. Someone putting on dark-toned makeup to attend a Halloween party as Martin Luther King and trying to actually look like him isn't the same thing as someone putting on black face to do an act that mocks and demeans black people.
Drag is a humorous exaggeration of the sexual characteristics of women and the fun of the over-the-top glamour women are allowed to engage in, which men are not. As a woman who's not on the lookout for ways to be offended, I don't find it dehumanizing. Drag queens are campy and their acts are often very funny. People don't normally LIVE like that full-time. It's historically been adult entertainment that takes place in nightclubs where adults go to perform or be entertained, if that's their cup of tea. That's where it belongs, not in kindergarten classes.
I think the hysteria about blackface is overblown, too. Someone putting on dark-toned makeup to attend a Halloween party as Martin Luther King and trying to actually look like him isn't the same thing as someone putting on black face to do an act that mocks and demeans black people.