Annnnd ... away we go?

[azurelunatic]

Yesterday was all kinds of crazy-fun. Myrrh has the same high heels that I was trying on that one time at the store and had to channel my inner drag queen. Related, there was trying on of a certain dress, a trip to the nail salon (pedicures!), supper, and an inevitable viewing of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar. It turns out Myrrh's camera and mine are the same; mine's just two model numbers up!

I have the directions sketched out here. I do not have "Sketchy Galore" on Fruitz (the iPod Shuffle), nor do I have any OK Go, but there should be some other things. Fun!

Next: hopping in the car (we're taking Myrrh's -- again, we've got nearly identical vehicles) and making with the ice and the water (and the power adapter) and going!

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I'd say "celebrates" rather than "abuses", because it's not particularly implying that everyone is like that; it's just following a group who happen to be. A fine line, but I find a vast difference between incisively and warmly painting a caricature and displaying a caricature as being representative of the whole.

Now, those "reality shows" that pick out the craziest representatives of a fringe group and go deep into the crazy nooks and crannies of their lives and represent what they're doing as "the life of a $CLASS" -- now that's abuse.

And they did make that all-important distinction -- the one between transvestite, transgendered, boy in a dress, and Drag Queen. JD? Boy in a dress.

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

Good points, all of them. =) As I mentioned to JD above, I was just concerned that it did seem stereotypical, etc., because of what one of my friends (a gay male) said about it.

If anything, I found the movie to have a very positive message overall otherwise. My favorite line? Domestic violence victim to Swayze's character: "I don't think of you as a man or as a woman. I think of you as an angel." ^___^