I'm in Newport, WA, attempting to logon to my LogoTV account, to add an entry to RuPaul's Dragrace Fantasy Team, the one I created called, "SoylentPINK," to update my free-expressions under the discussion I started, called, "Chewed 'n Glued." After entering LogoTV's website addy, I get a message that says the site is blocked (censored) due to 'inappropriate content.'
I asked the librarian. "It's about the kids!"
Afraid they'll be EXPOSED to GAY people, I asked?
RuPaul?
Me?
I asked who do I get 'permission' from, and was told it's pointless, there isn't even a 'complaint form' or 'complaint department.' "How convenient," I exclaimed, "Don't they know what is going on in the Egypt over censoring internet content? Isn't free speech more important than their petty prejudices?"
It's outrageous.
And these people wonder why citizens take up arms and start shooting Legislators, hiding dissent, calling anybody that disagrees 'mentally disturbed,' just like Ahmedinijad of Iran. They'll say anything that 'sounds-reasonable' as they prove HATE, then substitute-blame anything and anybody else as a diversion from their bigotry.
So, instead of entering my latest entry about RuPaul's Dragrace, my Fantasy TEAM called, "SoylentPINK," I will continue the discussion I started, called, "Chewed 'n Glued," here in my blog, and copy/paste it over to LogoTV's link-through to Ffarazzi dot com, later. (Maybe I should fly to Iran? Not even CHINA censors LOGOTV internet content, for cryin' out loud!)
I think it's very typical of Obama-style 'leadership' -- all LIP-SERVICE, no substance.
So, here is my latest entry. I made notes while sitting at Jammer's bar in downtown Priest River, ID., last night, while watching a hockey game and Final Score, an ESPN presentation (I wonder when those 'hooligans' will be censored for 'contributing to global warming by melting ice!')
Here goes:
This one's for you, Miss Freedom Rights Kaine:
Fan Meal 'n Sushi Heals
"Well, what I heard was ..."
"Stop!" I said. "Just stop. It's a viscious lie. Everything you are saying is to denigrate that performer right there -- that one -- in the pathetic attept at making yourself-out to 'look' or 'feel' SUPERIOR. And that performer, "'Miss Thang'" to you, is Miss Freedom Rights Kaine, who for damned sure isn't spreading rumors talking shit about you, and never forget it."
I snapped my fingers and 'sashayed away,' chuckling, I'm easy-going, but I was irritated by it.
I think they're just jealous because I said I was fond of him, MissFree. They'd say the same about anyone, and have, I'm sure. Speak highly of someone, and they chew you up for it. Say you love someone, they hate you for it. If they make someone squirm, they laugh, make someone upset, they laugh even harder. It's SADISTIC.
I heard the same crap about Shangela, just because I said he's the cutest and has the beest demeanor and should win RuPaul's Dragrace.
It wasn't long before they were focusing their gossip on me, just because I'd defended Drag Queens, not any one in particular, but defended, instead of chewed-up as they do. I defend, they ridicule and scorn.
Even among some, emphasis on 'some', Drag Queens, they are so used to hearing crap, double-pointed tongues, tongues of serpeants, they are inclined to interpret compliments as "flattery-with-designs," the motivation being fucking 'em, cheating on their boyfriends or wifes, cheating on someone, turning 'em into CHEAP TRICK s to relegate to a hidden past that's lied about.
I'm none of that, and recommend to any and all not to get played into it. Or you become FAN MEAL. Doesn't matter if it's Drag Queens or neighbors, co-workers or family, it makes you feel chewed-up, consumed by subtle hatreds, tainting your natural optimistic reality of life -- then it's up to you to glue yourself back together again ...
"...with a little help from your friends ..."
-- and that lyric should be ammended to include "aquaintances" (like me, and maybe, someday, some how, some way, YOU, whomever 'you' may be.)
What I like about Yara on RuPaul's Dragrace IS that sassy Latin persona. Meanwhile, the jelaous (I keep misspelling that, oh well) -- the jealous ridicule and scorn him for it. Keep up the good work, Yara.
People that I've worked with and even relatives and some 'friends' refer to Drag Queens as "it's." They thought they'd tease me, all in 'good fun' (to them), saying things like, "How could you be attracted to it!?"
I explained that people are NOT 'its.'
They get red in the face and fake smiling, spouting versions of the old Puritanical argument that a 'he' is a 'he' and a 'she' is a 'she' so everything else is an 'it.'
I quoted Carmen from RuPaul's Dragrace (was it Carmen?) what I like about Carmen best, (was it Carmen? Hmmm ...) and said, "If you want to see REAL GIRLS, GO TO THE MALL," chuckling.
Then, after a bit more discussion, they obfuscated their original derogatory remarks and hateful attempts at denying it, by saying they were not referring to the person (RuPaul, MissFreedom, Yara, Drag Queens, etc.,) as "its" but the situation, then tried acting all "offended" , accusatory, like I was the one being 'hateful' for 'accusing' them of such a thing. "How could you be attracted to it! As in the situation!"
These people will say anything. They don't think too quickly. Like I was born yesterday. Good heavens! I wasn't about to get involved in a 'he-said, she-said' squabble, only to get played-into that mindphukery trap of them concocting an excuse to claim I am "so argumentative!" and "unreasonable/crazy", afterwards only to go talk crap about me to everyone they know as a diversion from me calling 'em out on their prejudice.
Diversity is like Sushi. An aquired taste, perhaps. That heals. Ancient. Healthy. Nourishing.
I wonder if MissFree is listening? Has heard MY WORDS? I don't have a 'goal' for watching his performances. It's not a sexual motivation. Although I know that if I said it was, I'd get chewed, "How could you be attracted to IT?" -- which is derogatory towards Miss Freedom Rights Kaine, denigrating both of us. I'm not a sexually-motivated persona, regardless, and I'm sure his motivations for performing aren't sexually-motivated either. Obviously.
-- Detroit 4, Florida 3 -- Final Score -- (Like I said, I was taking notes while watching a hockey game)
RuPaul knows about those kinds of things, what I just wrote about. Sometimes I wonder if his contestants do -- or, as Viveca says, "cUntestAnts," due to some nastiness, bad mouthing, the stuff I've mentioned. And that's one of the best performers ever, Viveca (sp?), distanced by all the chewing, tiring of all the glueing.
Viveca is as pretty as Shangela, but Shangela is cuter. Viveca has the presence of mind to at least strive to rise above the bitchy chewing. But one thing about the nasty's, it's contagious, and Drag Queens have a tendency to out-do one another, both in costumes, performance, bitchy remarks, even bed, distancing the audience in the process. I'm inclined to think so, anyway. Prove me wrong, please.
Sushi heals.
One thing about the Fan Meal base is the diversity. All the 'cute boys' and cute Asian women. A straight/gay mix of healing delight. Not all Asians like Sushi, of course, but the historic biases continues, subtly, against 'gays,' against Latinos, blacks, Indians, Native or Asian, the fan-base always gets turned into Fan Meal, so these demographics are always "special guests" welcomed with open-arms at Drag Shows. I love seeing Asian women at the clubs. Wish there were more.
There's no such thing as 'gay bars' anymore, just bars that don't discriminate, where some of the people (not "it's!") that go there happen to be 'gay' -- or 'gay-ish' -- ('gay' is just another LABEL).
Sushi Heals, indeed.
And guys like MissFree are freely excercising their rights, and I love, to my last breath, defending that freedom.
Some of these people I've talked about, think that if they watch RuPaul's Dragrace, or LogoTV, or go to a bar where there might be some 'gay people,' or 'drag queens,' that other people might think ...
... That's how self-absorbed they are; how fearful; petty; can't even excercise their freedoms without getting played-into other peoples' assumptions, as they imagine it in their own heads, guilt by association, free-associations used as psychological weapons against each other, too inhibited to exercise their freedom, their rights; that insecure and lieing about it, the REAL definition of "In The Closet," which has nothing to do with 'gayness.'
These are the people that speak with the double-pointed tongues of serpeants, SNAKES, and using those double-pointed tongues as NAILS, they hammer one 'jesu' Drag Queen after another as a 'negative' against their merciless positive-cross-signs in their hateful positiveness; learning the words from church but missing the point of the entire 'christ' concept in that hateful positiveness.
=- "Must be positive-minded!" they feverishly chant night and day, subliminally reinforcing the 'nasty's', as though it's a 'good thing,' and not brainwashing.
I devoted years of my life to those who were POSITIVE, many succumbing to HIV/AIDS. I volunteered at my own time and expense, meanwhile, I got fired from my job, accussed of displaying POSITIVE-symptoms of "gayness," told that the workforce was made to FEEL "uncomfortable" knowing that being in the presence of a 'gay' would possibly make them POSITIVE.
I don't have HIV. I'm negative. And they can take their two-dimensional, negative/positive tiny-minded ways of thinking, that hateful formula of dividing, of intolerance, that brainwashing Fan Meal and regurgitate IT and ITs themselves.
I'll take Drag Queens over that any day.
I'll watch LogoTV over that, any day.
I'll watch RuPaul's Dragrace over that, any day.
Fan Meal 'n Sushi Heals, indeed.
They don't know what real self-esteem is. If you've got it, they LABEL you as 'negatives,' any excuse to teach each other how to be INTOLERANT, subtly, and censor DISSENT. Like this: " Now that we've taught you to be 'positive', here's the list of 'negative people' to HATE, to cast-out as 'not your kinds of people,' to AVOID, to deny equal pursuits of opportunities, life, liberty and happiness, or at least HINDER it.
That's what I love about MissFree and RuPaul's Dragrace, LogoTV and the gay-community as a whole, I have the freedom to at least fantasize through this RuPaul Fantasy Dragrace, SoylentPINK, -- FANmealTASIZE -- that MissFree hasn't succumbed to that 'negative/positive' brainwashing, or at least is striving to overcome it.
-- " ... and god almighty in his unconditional love so hated his creations he cursed 'em with dark skin to punish innocent children for the deeds of the parents!"
And the moral of that biblical story is obviously HowNotToBe -- not how-to-be, but how NOT to.
Of course, those 'positive-minded' people walked away from church learning the wrong message about that as well.
Go see a Drag Show.
Watch some LogoTV.
Spend some time at a so-called 'gay bar'; learn some real tolerance and prove it; prove your acceptance of diversity and make some new friends/aquaintances.
Sure, you might get chewed, turned to Fan Meal, But now you know how to glue yourself back together again. Make Miss Freedom Rights Kaine proud of you as I am of he.
Just remember, Sushi heals.
Kind Regards,
Clayton Winton
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Obama: "Elect Hezbollah To Egypt"
"America's word is worthless ... America has lost it."
Israel shocked by Obama's "betrayal" of Mubarak
-- comments I made 5-days ago:
Clayton Leon Winton 5 days ago:
Beshara Beshara and Patrick La Su want FREEDOM.
Me too! ;)
---------------------------------
One of the things not discussed here, so far, is the cost of the so-called 'democracy' being MARKETED, and marketed it is, by those whom PROFIT -- get paid the BIG BUCKS -- claiming they'll 'fix' the problems they themselves instigate.
-- that would be LEGISLATORS, all Higher-Ed 'credentials', an ELITIST CLASS all their own.
The cost of that type of so-called 'representative-government' concocts the most stagnant societies, with the slowest change, endless pie-in-the-sky speeches, mountains of rules, paperwork, endless complications, fees, fines, and the HIGHEST TAXES.
-- and endless excuses for it, always blaming somebody ELSE.
And that is NOT 'freedom.'
For three decades, President Mubarak was beseiged by that marketing-scheme, those conspired Higher-Ed cult-style take-overs of representative 'democracy.'
It doesn't create more 'jobs' for 'just folks' -- it only raises taxes against the poorest to suck the life-blood out of economy concocting that Higher-Ed 'credentialed' ELITIST CLASS at taxpayer expense.
That's how multi-trillion-dollar debts are concocted, spending all future generations of kids' tax-dollars today, on themselves, their paperFAKEwork EMPIRES.
-- there goes REAL productivity;
-- there goes REAL infrustructural development;
-- there goes REAL human development;
-- there goes REAL fast-paced infusions of new technologies, because those Higher-Ed 'credentials' get PAID to do endless cater-lunch photo-op TALK SESSIONS about every single iota of change. There version of 'change' is all WINDOW DRESSING, slower than snails because of it.
This global economy (especially here in the U.S) needs an immediate fast-paced infusion of NEW TECHNOLOGY. Not TALKS about it. Just innovating it and DOING IT RIGHT NOW.
Our quagmire of a 'democracy' comprised of 99% Higher-Ed 'credentialed' ELITISTS won't allow any of it unless they STAGNATE it for the photo-op, making a career out of TALKING about it instead of doing it.
President Mubarak of Egypt truly cares about the people -- all of 'em, and isn't so easily swayed by Higher-Ed's media blitz marketing Higher-Ed FAKE 'democracy' in their global-pursuit of cultish DOMINATION.
That's why Hillary Clinton and President Obama, nor the SecDef or SecState, nor the head of the CIA been on the news demanding Mubarak resign, and that is why continued aide from the U.S. flows to Egypt (and I am not an ObamaTEAM supporter AT ALL, but on this topic I do agree).
The people of Egypt are being stirred, agitated and antagonized by OUTSIDE INFLUENCES, with powerful ties to educational institutions here in the U.S. The very concept of al Qaida evolves as Donald Rumsfeld once said (be it contextually accurate in this instance or otherwise).
Kind Regards,
Clayton Leon Winton
====================================================
When it comes to FREEDOM, be it one's own or the greater-picture, Egypt in the SPOTLIGHT -- President Mubarak has been supported because any replacement, currently, will be funded by, paid-for-by, installed by, HatefulReligiousSupremacists curtailing every aspect of YOUR FREEDOMS.
-- from the CLOTHES YOU WEAR or don't wear;
-- to the products you LOVE;
-- to the places you LOVE going;
-- religionists conspire together to HATE YOU for it and PUNISH YOU for it, chanting "love the sinner but hate the sin" while concocting excuses to horn-in to YOUR PRIVATES and PUNISH you for what you LOVE, in their conspired unconditional-HATE.
---------------
In Idaho, I can still enjoy a beer and cigarette at the tavern or bar. Those that HATE my LOVE for those products, however, are still on their typical hate-campaign to OUTLAW it, punishing me with their own conspired hatreds. The only 'unconditional' about 'em is INTOLERANCE -- HATE.
-- any excuse will do.
-- and the Obama Admin and it's supporters goose-step in lock-step with that INTOLERANCE, disguised. There's no 'lesser of two evils' between Democrats and Republicans, just different 'flavors' of HATREDS.
----------------
It's one of those things, from DRAGS to BITCHES -- then again, anywhere in-between. :)
---------------
Irv's tonight, 10-pm, downtown Spokane. Every Wednesday. Always a good show. Which reminds me of how much I love these performers -- I love 'em all. They've won my heart. Good folks and good fun all around. (see below for more).
Israel shocked by Obama's "betrayal" of Mubarak
-- comments I made 5-days ago:
Clayton Leon Winton 5 days ago:
Beshara Beshara and Patrick La Su want FREEDOM.
Me too! ;)
---------------------------------
One of the things not discussed here, so far, is the cost of the so-called 'democracy' being MARKETED, and marketed it is, by those whom PROFIT -- get paid the BIG BUCKS -- claiming they'll 'fix' the problems they themselves instigate.
-- that would be LEGISLATORS, all Higher-Ed 'credentials', an ELITIST CLASS all their own.
The cost of that type of so-called 'representative-government' concocts the most stagnant societies, with the slowest change, endless pie-in-the-sky speeches, mountains of rules, paperwork, endless complications, fees, fines, and the HIGHEST TAXES.
-- and endless excuses for it, always blaming somebody ELSE.
And that is NOT 'freedom.'
For three decades, President Mubarak was beseiged by that marketing-scheme, those conspired Higher-Ed cult-style take-overs of representative 'democracy.'
It doesn't create more 'jobs' for 'just folks' -- it only raises taxes against the poorest to suck the life-blood out of economy concocting that Higher-Ed 'credentialed' ELITIST CLASS at taxpayer expense.
That's how multi-trillion-dollar debts are concocted, spending all future generations of kids' tax-dollars today, on themselves, their paperFAKEwork EMPIRES.
-- there goes REAL productivity;
-- there goes REAL infrustructural development;
-- there goes REAL human development;
-- there goes REAL fast-paced infusions of new technologies, because those Higher-Ed 'credentials' get PAID to do endless cater-lunch photo-op TALK SESSIONS about every single iota of change. There version of 'change' is all WINDOW DRESSING, slower than snails because of it.
This global economy (especially here in the U.S) needs an immediate fast-paced infusion of NEW TECHNOLOGY. Not TALKS about it. Just innovating it and DOING IT RIGHT NOW.
Our quagmire of a 'democracy' comprised of 99% Higher-Ed 'credentialed' ELITISTS won't allow any of it unless they STAGNATE it for the photo-op, making a career out of TALKING about it instead of doing it.
President Mubarak of Egypt truly cares about the people -- all of 'em, and isn't so easily swayed by Higher-Ed's media blitz marketing Higher-Ed FAKE 'democracy' in their global-pursuit of cultish DOMINATION.
That's why Hillary Clinton and President Obama, nor the SecDef or SecState, nor the head of the CIA been on the news demanding Mubarak resign, and that is why continued aide from the U.S. flows to Egypt (and I am not an ObamaTEAM supporter AT ALL, but on this topic I do agree).
The people of Egypt are being stirred, agitated and antagonized by OUTSIDE INFLUENCES, with powerful ties to educational institutions here in the U.S. The very concept of al Qaida evolves as Donald Rumsfeld once said (be it contextually accurate in this instance or otherwise).
Kind Regards,
Clayton Leon Winton
====================================================
When it comes to FREEDOM, be it one's own or the greater-picture, Egypt in the SPOTLIGHT -- President Mubarak has been supported because any replacement, currently, will be funded by, paid-for-by, installed by, HatefulReligiousSupremacists curtailing every aspect of YOUR FREEDOMS.
-- from the CLOTHES YOU WEAR or don't wear;
-- to the products you LOVE;
-- to the places you LOVE going;
-- religionists conspire together to HATE YOU for it and PUNISH YOU for it, chanting "love the sinner but hate the sin" while concocting excuses to horn-in to YOUR PRIVATES and PUNISH you for what you LOVE, in their conspired unconditional-HATE.
---------------
In Idaho, I can still enjoy a beer and cigarette at the tavern or bar. Those that HATE my LOVE for those products, however, are still on their typical hate-campaign to OUTLAW it, punishing me with their own conspired hatreds. The only 'unconditional' about 'em is INTOLERANCE -- HATE.
-- any excuse will do.
-- and the Obama Admin and it's supporters goose-step in lock-step with that INTOLERANCE, disguised. There's no 'lesser of two evils' between Democrats and Republicans, just different 'flavors' of HATREDS.
----------------
It's one of those things, from DRAGS to BITCHES -- then again, anywhere in-between. :)
---------------
Irv's tonight, 10-pm, downtown Spokane. Every Wednesday. Always a good show. Which reminds me of how much I love these performers -- I love 'em all. They've won my heart. Good folks and good fun all around. (see below for more).
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Drag Wars
Let FREEDOM Reign
Men dressing up like women, faking being women, faking singing like women, lip-syncing, is admittedly kinda weird.
But watching men in tights, playing with their balls, getting paid millions, knowing fully-well there are numerous injuries, even deaths to aspiring wanna-be millionaire MenInTights ball-players on High School football fields annually --
-- knowing that --
-- and knowing that football players are notorious for drugs, guns and domestic battery, a 'sport' that SEGREGATES and DEMEANS women to dress-up little pre-pubescent SMOOTH girls chanting along the side-lines, "Rah! Rah! Rah! We can't do it, we're just girls!" --
-- knowing that --
-- a 'sport' that celebrates VIOLENCE;
-- knowing that --
-- then football is even weirder.
Drag is the artistic free-expression in celebration of womanhood.
Nobody can deny that with any integrity.
Granted, there are men with psychological problems that actually think cross-dressing, heels, padding, a thick layer of chemical-soup smeared on their faces, wearing wigs, makes them a 'beautiful woman,' alluring to 'any man,' more 'attractive' than their natural selves.
Does that make the man that sleeps with 'em 'gay' -- or DUPED?
Maybe it's about duping lesbians?
Afterall, men that are attracted to another man, are so because the natural manhood is appealling -- JUST THE WAY YOU ARE -- like the title of a Billy Joel song.
Womanhood is part of one's attraction to any particular woman, regardless of that individuals free-expression of femininity or lack thereof.
Likewise, a man's free-expression of their unique display of manhood is what makes them attractive, to anybody.
So, when women wore powdered wigs and corsets, while men wore powdered wigs, tights and cod-pieces to advertise BALL PLAY, a SUPERBOWL of the 'mainstream' thought said all whom did not participate were 'weird.'
MenInTights playing their BALLS and adv3ertising it as 'not weird' is nothing new, it just evolved.
As did and has the celebration of womanhood.
I saw my first drag show at 14 years of age in London. I ditched my companions, SKIRTED the chapperones and Humped the TUBE to FREEDOM.
In San Diego, during my late teens and early twenties, I saw many types of drag, including womens' bars, where women impersonated male entertainers, or freely expressed their own interpretation of 'masculinity.'
It's all about the art of impersonation. Acting. Theater. Entertainment.
-- as a side-note, one must examine physical-conditioning, briefly. There is a good comparison between the steroid-induced massive 40+%-lard-ass 300-lb millionaire football player, and the under 10%-fat firmness of a Figure Skater (U.S. Nationals in Greensboro, North Carolina just completed this past week -- more on that, later). Figure Skating is the maximum of human endurance.
Football physic vs Figure Skating's maximum human endurance firm ass -- stamina.
Short-bursts with maximum resource (caloric) consumption, vs sustained speed and stamina. Which do you want on the FRONT LINES defending YOU and YOURS?
Or in your 'defensive' attack helicopters and jets? And when resources are depleted, running low, how many calories are you going to sacrifice from the comfort of your sedentary couch or chair to feed a 300-lb'er a SNACK, verses a 150-lb'r a full days' rations?
RESOURCE WARS, and we're in it. Just because bombs aren't going off in your neighborhood doesn't mean it's not.
From Los Angeles to Seattle, I've seen some of the best that Drag has to offer. From satirical skits ot lip-sync impersonations to Kareoke live-singing with live bands, magnificent voal skills, fabulous theater.
But I'm not a big fan. It's the freedom that's beautiful. I'm a big fan of freedom. I see troubling aspects of football, for example, but I don't want it banned or the people attending or leaving a 'game' beaten and the facility burned to the ground.
There are football fans and Church fans that wish that, hope for that, pray for that against participants of Drag, patrons, and facilities that offer it.
This country has a long history of that. And it's still the 'norm' throughout the majority of the world. Iran publically hung two teenage males, accussed of 'cross-dressing' and 'seducing' via 'confusion' their 'victims' -- 'homosexuality.' And the support to advertise that evil as 'not weird' is global.
I'd just prefer to support PEACEFUL artistic free-expression than maximum bulk and violence that pretends it's a 'game' ...
-- anything that endorses the segregation of men from women is no 'game' --
... it's just the LEFT-overs of 'reasonable-sounding' antiquated Jim Crow hateful MENtality in disguise.
Drag, on the other hand, is none of that -- for it involves men and women and those whom are neither or MORE THAN BOTH.
-- A Brief History of Drag
It's all about free-expression and satire. Those regarded as 'free-spirits' would get together and talk about it, always ridiculed and scorned by the so-called 'unconditionally-loving' crowd, Church women whose most oft-repeated words were, "Hated it!" -- from the way you talk, to the way you walk, from the shoes you wore to the way you combed your hair, every aspect of your being, your entertainments, your loves, and the black-clad Church women HATED IT.
All in good fun, satirical sketches were offered as entertainment in the establishments where these 'free-spirits' hung-out, locations where any and all were WELCOMED and LOVED, cared about, ACCEPTED, regardless of size, shape, color, of person or dress.
These performers donned the garments of the Church women, and 'camped' -- satirizing the hatred, "If you don't laugh, you'll cry!" at the heart of it, the oppression, segregation, ostracism so real, so blatant, so mean.
And the Church women went absolutely bonkers. They harrangued their husbands week after week, month after month, year after year to put a stop to all forms of singing, laughing or showing signs of 'happiness', in essence, demanding laws against pieces-of-cloth, clothes, wigs, make-up, music, theater, art, every aspect of 'night life' and free-expression. Then harranged 'em more to go beat and arrest all involved, including those expressing their freedom to go see a show.
-- then vigilante'd the burning-down of the bars and clubs where such shows were offered.
To this day, there is a church group that HATES IT and all involved in it, thumping bibles, claiming how 'unconditionally-loving' they are, holding candle-light vigils, holding hands, crying for the camera, the photo-ops, taking 'donations' to further their hate-campaigns, hoping to get on the news, chanting "love the sinner, HATE the 'sin'," spewing and teaching HATE. The only thing 'unconditional' about 'em is their HATE.
-- always pessimistically tunnel-vision focusing their entire existence, perceiving 'flaws' -- 'negatives' to hammer against their merciless positiveness, their positive-cross-signs of HATE, INTOLERANCE, using the points of their own hypocritical forked-tongues as NAILS, the epitome of anti-christ messaging, proving they are FAKE 'christians' and never understood a wingle Christian concept, especially the concept of crucifiction, from the get-go. You're not supposed to be 'positive' hammering 'negatives' against your merciless positiveness-cross-signs, figuratively. And they FAKE 'not understanding' as their EXCUSE to keep doing it.
FAKE 'christians' or FAKE 'games' or FAKE 'divas'?
I'll take DRAG any day. It's all about the FREEDOM.
Sometimes those doing drag get caught-up in the satire -- ridicule and scorn absolutely every aspect of patrons, from the size/shape/color of their person to the size/shape/color of their shoes, their pants, their shirts, their hair, nose, teeth, opinions -- and that drives-away business.
I'm always very cautious standing between a few Drag Queens for that exact reason. It's no fun at all being on the receiving end of their, errrr, 'love.' Usually best not to say anything.
That said, the current group of Drag participants in Spokane, WA have risen to the occassion and have proved to be above that. Are kind. Defend patrons, make all feel welcome, loved, cared-about, worthy. And they have wonderful personal stories to share, if you have the time to make the effort to try and get to know some.
The situation reminds me a bit of those rare years when a school has an exceptional amount of talent. During those years, a special group of students, whom have exceptional training or backgrounds, win trophies, awards, go to regional and national championships and do well, whereas most years they don't. After that group of students graduates or moves-on, the 'average' talent will continue as usual.
That's the situation with Spokane's Drag SuperStars right now. For whatever reason, whatever unique turn of events, the special backgrounds and special real-life educations and special circumstances, including facilities and supporters and patrons, the group involved in the Spokane Drag Scene are kind, kinder, kindest, more talented than any group ever before. I salute each and every one of them.
They have raised funds for charitable causes, including Breast Cancer and HIV/AIDS, and other causes as well. The Spokane Drag scene has evolved into a World Class showcase of talent and kindness.
And that is a FREEDOM worth defending, forever.
Kind Regards,
Clayton Winton
Men dressing up like women, faking being women, faking singing like women, lip-syncing, is admittedly kinda weird.
But watching men in tights, playing with their balls, getting paid millions, knowing fully-well there are numerous injuries, even deaths to aspiring wanna-be millionaire MenInTights ball-players on High School football fields annually --
-- knowing that --
-- and knowing that football players are notorious for drugs, guns and domestic battery, a 'sport' that SEGREGATES and DEMEANS women to dress-up little pre-pubescent SMOOTH girls chanting along the side-lines, "Rah! Rah! Rah! We can't do it, we're just girls!" --
-- knowing that --
-- a 'sport' that celebrates VIOLENCE;
-- knowing that --
-- then football is even weirder.
Drag is the artistic free-expression in celebration of womanhood.
Nobody can deny that with any integrity.
Granted, there are men with psychological problems that actually think cross-dressing, heels, padding, a thick layer of chemical-soup smeared on their faces, wearing wigs, makes them a 'beautiful woman,' alluring to 'any man,' more 'attractive' than their natural selves.
Does that make the man that sleeps with 'em 'gay' -- or DUPED?
Maybe it's about duping lesbians?
Afterall, men that are attracted to another man, are so because the natural manhood is appealling -- JUST THE WAY YOU ARE -- like the title of a Billy Joel song.
Womanhood is part of one's attraction to any particular woman, regardless of that individuals free-expression of femininity or lack thereof.
Likewise, a man's free-expression of their unique display of manhood is what makes them attractive, to anybody.
So, when women wore powdered wigs and corsets, while men wore powdered wigs, tights and cod-pieces to advertise BALL PLAY, a SUPERBOWL of the 'mainstream' thought said all whom did not participate were 'weird.'
MenInTights playing their BALLS and adv3ertising it as 'not weird' is nothing new, it just evolved.
As did and has the celebration of womanhood.
I saw my first drag show at 14 years of age in London. I ditched my companions, SKIRTED the chapperones and Humped the TUBE to FREEDOM.
In San Diego, during my late teens and early twenties, I saw many types of drag, including womens' bars, where women impersonated male entertainers, or freely expressed their own interpretation of 'masculinity.'
It's all about the art of impersonation. Acting. Theater. Entertainment.
-- as a side-note, one must examine physical-conditioning, briefly. There is a good comparison between the steroid-induced massive 40+%-lard-ass 300-lb millionaire football player, and the under 10%-fat firmness of a Figure Skater (U.S. Nationals in Greensboro, North Carolina just completed this past week -- more on that, later). Figure Skating is the maximum of human endurance.
Football physic vs Figure Skating's maximum human endurance firm ass -- stamina.
Short-bursts with maximum resource (caloric) consumption, vs sustained speed and stamina. Which do you want on the FRONT LINES defending YOU and YOURS?
Or in your 'defensive' attack helicopters and jets? And when resources are depleted, running low, how many calories are you going to sacrifice from the comfort of your sedentary couch or chair to feed a 300-lb'er a SNACK, verses a 150-lb'r a full days' rations?
RESOURCE WARS, and we're in it. Just because bombs aren't going off in your neighborhood doesn't mean it's not.
From Los Angeles to Seattle, I've seen some of the best that Drag has to offer. From satirical skits ot lip-sync impersonations to Kareoke live-singing with live bands, magnificent voal skills, fabulous theater.
But I'm not a big fan. It's the freedom that's beautiful. I'm a big fan of freedom. I see troubling aspects of football, for example, but I don't want it banned or the people attending or leaving a 'game' beaten and the facility burned to the ground.
There are football fans and Church fans that wish that, hope for that, pray for that against participants of Drag, patrons, and facilities that offer it.
This country has a long history of that. And it's still the 'norm' throughout the majority of the world. Iran publically hung two teenage males, accussed of 'cross-dressing' and 'seducing' via 'confusion' their 'victims' -- 'homosexuality.' And the support to advertise that evil as 'not weird' is global.
I'd just prefer to support PEACEFUL artistic free-expression than maximum bulk and violence that pretends it's a 'game' ...
-- anything that endorses the segregation of men from women is no 'game' --
... it's just the LEFT-overs of 'reasonable-sounding' antiquated Jim Crow hateful MENtality in disguise.
Drag, on the other hand, is none of that -- for it involves men and women and those whom are neither or MORE THAN BOTH.
-- A Brief History of Drag
It's all about free-expression and satire. Those regarded as 'free-spirits' would get together and talk about it, always ridiculed and scorned by the so-called 'unconditionally-loving' crowd, Church women whose most oft-repeated words were, "Hated it!" -- from the way you talk, to the way you walk, from the shoes you wore to the way you combed your hair, every aspect of your being, your entertainments, your loves, and the black-clad Church women HATED IT.
All in good fun, satirical sketches were offered as entertainment in the establishments where these 'free-spirits' hung-out, locations where any and all were WELCOMED and LOVED, cared about, ACCEPTED, regardless of size, shape, color, of person or dress.
These performers donned the garments of the Church women, and 'camped' -- satirizing the hatred, "If you don't laugh, you'll cry!" at the heart of it, the oppression, segregation, ostracism so real, so blatant, so mean.
And the Church women went absolutely bonkers. They harrangued their husbands week after week, month after month, year after year to put a stop to all forms of singing, laughing or showing signs of 'happiness', in essence, demanding laws against pieces-of-cloth, clothes, wigs, make-up, music, theater, art, every aspect of 'night life' and free-expression. Then harranged 'em more to go beat and arrest all involved, including those expressing their freedom to go see a show.
-- then vigilante'd the burning-down of the bars and clubs where such shows were offered.
To this day, there is a church group that HATES IT and all involved in it, thumping bibles, claiming how 'unconditionally-loving' they are, holding candle-light vigils, holding hands, crying for the camera, the photo-ops, taking 'donations' to further their hate-campaigns, hoping to get on the news, chanting "love the sinner, HATE the 'sin'," spewing and teaching HATE. The only thing 'unconditional' about 'em is their HATE.
-- always pessimistically tunnel-vision focusing their entire existence, perceiving 'flaws' -- 'negatives' to hammer against their merciless positiveness, their positive-cross-signs of HATE, INTOLERANCE, using the points of their own hypocritical forked-tongues as NAILS, the epitome of anti-christ messaging, proving they are FAKE 'christians' and never understood a wingle Christian concept, especially the concept of crucifiction, from the get-go. You're not supposed to be 'positive' hammering 'negatives' against your merciless positiveness-cross-signs, figuratively. And they FAKE 'not understanding' as their EXCUSE to keep doing it.
FAKE 'christians' or FAKE 'games' or FAKE 'divas'?
I'll take DRAG any day. It's all about the FREEDOM.
Sometimes those doing drag get caught-up in the satire -- ridicule and scorn absolutely every aspect of patrons, from the size/shape/color of their person to the size/shape/color of their shoes, their pants, their shirts, their hair, nose, teeth, opinions -- and that drives-away business.
I'm always very cautious standing between a few Drag Queens for that exact reason. It's no fun at all being on the receiving end of their, errrr, 'love.' Usually best not to say anything.
That said, the current group of Drag participants in Spokane, WA have risen to the occassion and have proved to be above that. Are kind. Defend patrons, make all feel welcome, loved, cared-about, worthy. And they have wonderful personal stories to share, if you have the time to make the effort to try and get to know some.
The situation reminds me a bit of those rare years when a school has an exceptional amount of talent. During those years, a special group of students, whom have exceptional training or backgrounds, win trophies, awards, go to regional and national championships and do well, whereas most years they don't. After that group of students graduates or moves-on, the 'average' talent will continue as usual.
That's the situation with Spokane's Drag SuperStars right now. For whatever reason, whatever unique turn of events, the special backgrounds and special real-life educations and special circumstances, including facilities and supporters and patrons, the group involved in the Spokane Drag Scene are kind, kinder, kindest, more talented than any group ever before. I salute each and every one of them.
They have raised funds for charitable causes, including Breast Cancer and HIV/AIDS, and other causes as well. The Spokane Drag scene has evolved into a World Class showcase of talent and kindness.
And that is a FREEDOM worth defending, forever.
Kind Regards,
Clayton Winton
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