Dragging Questions

[kybearfuzz]

Having watched many seasons of "RuPaul's Drag Race" now, I have picked up a bit of the lingo they throw about. Mostly through the constant overuse by the queens. I have noticed a few odds and ends that seems to be overused.

• You too can talk like a drag queen strutting the runway, just fill in this blank: I'm serving ___________ realness!" I think I read on FB a comment by ericdabear) where he pointed this out too. It's cute the first few times you hear it, but every single one of them fills in the blank almost every time they romp down the runway.
  
  
• When did it become the norm for drag queens to pull their wigs off during a high energy performance? I've been to only a few drag shows in my life and I've never seen it. At least one queen who is "Lip syncing for their lives" seem to throw the wig every week. This week one of the queens did it (no spoilers for those who haven't seen it) and Santino Rice shook his head "no" after it happened. I guess I don't understand doing that because it shatters the illusion that it's a woman. You ain't serving fishy realness doing that.
  
  
• Has anyone else noticed that often the queen who seems to be getting a lot of screen time during an episode is often the one who goes home? I haven't seen it so much this season, but in past seasons the queen who was involved in the most drama or discussions in a specific episode was the one sent packing.

And now back to non-drag related life :)

Comments

Re: Oh, All-Knowing One...

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I think it's something of a mix. In some challenges, they are forced to make their outfits out of odd materials or whatever they can find in a place, etc. This season, I think they did that for the first challenge, the "RuPocalypse." In those types of challenges, they do make their outfits.

In the rest of them, I believe that they use whatever outfits and materials they brought with them. In multiple episodes this season, I've seen a few items get used over and over by the queens (Latrice was chastised for using her boots over and over in one critique). In some cases they may not have made the outfit (they brought it, bought it, or had someone make it before), in other cases they may have if they can sew at all.

Past seasons, and even a bit in this season, have shown that being unskilled in sewing was viewed as a weakness.

Re: Oh, All-Knowing One...

[notmypresident.livejournal.com]

Past seasons, and even a bit in this season, have shown that being unskilled in sewing was viewed as a weakness.

Sweet Jeebus, that lets me out. I can't even sew a button on a shirt!

Thanks for the explanation, which makes sense. I knew there was no way those queens could have come up with so many of those dresses in one or two days.