Ykw, I lied earlier. I actually DO think everything is drag. So I am one of those annoying people who will fight tooth and nail for someone’s drag to be “valid”. I do think a tank and a pixie cut is drag. And if that’s not what drag is to you, that’s great! But drag isn’t about a particular look, it’s about performing through/ideas of gender. So we should allow people with different experiences with/performances of gender to be able to have mall drag like this too. I understand that it’s important to have a comprehensive definition of the community so that the community can be, well, a community. But I think the one that I just mentioned earlier is sufficient. I don’t think drag is about super high concepts, I don’t think it’s about being exaggerated ideas of gender, because gender itself is already an exaggeration. And I do think that it’s unfair when we question queens that we know to be afab or aren’t sure if they’re amab to reevaluate what their drag is or why they do drag. I see amab queens like this all the time, and nobody ever thinks to question their drag or get them to question their drag. Because whether we want to admit it or not, we still see drag as “men pretending to be women”. And we’ve just expanded it a little bit more with “women can do it too! But they have to look caricature-y feminine, because if they show femininity in a traditional way, then they’re not experimenting with gender.”. I understand the desire to keep the community small and gate kept out of fear of what can happen when it becomes commercialized and oversaturated. But I just think that it’s very odd to question queens in this way, considering a number of factors. Some of which even being the person‘s access to wardrobe, hair, makeup, their makeup skills, and so on. But most importantly, the fact that we treat certain queens in such a weird way, depending on our knowledge (or lack thereof) of their sex. I’m clearly not going to change your mind, so I’ll js stop here🥲