'BOUNCE'-ing the night away....
Saturday night, I went to ‘Bounce’ a local ‘gay-friendly’ bar/dance club on Saturday night with C2 and her friends from her flag football team. It was a lot of fun. Thanks C2 for inviting me along.
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Before the dancing commenced there was a drag show. Usually I think the drag shows are pretty fun – nothing at all like the kind that you could see down in New Orleans but still they are usually OK. But for some reason this particular drag show was a bit repugnant to me. I pretend to know all the ‘psychology’ involved with being a ‘Queen’ – I find nothing wrong with it – and I understand it as well as a ‘straight’ woman can...what I didn’t get about one of the drag queens on this particular night was that it seems ‘she’ had breast implants. Now obviously someone who is doing this for a living wants to look as real as possible and perhaps they are going so far as ‘having the operation’ to become a woman – and again I have no problems with this – but the 'breasts' on this particular ‘Queen’ were exposed and they were grotesque. Now, I am going to go out on a limb here and assume (which is probably wrong of me) that this individual paid A LOT OF MONEY for these breasts. Again it’s ‘her’ prerogative – but I have to tell you that if I was going to pay a lot of money for fake breasts they had better be the best looking fake breasts that money could afford (and perhaps these were).
I guess I lack insight into this sort of thing – but I could not help but be a bit turned off by all of this. Some of the drag queens I’ve seen in the past have been drop-dead gorgeous. This one was a handsome ‘woman’ very big/tall/big boned – but somehow I think the ‘breast job’ could have been better. I also didn’t get exposing the 'breasts' the audience either...I mean in a ‘strip’ club women EVENTUALLY take off their tops but there’s a ‘teasing’ going on it’s not quite so blatant. And perhaps it is in the nature of being a Drag Queen to go over the top...but if all they are looking for is to become a caricature of ‘WOMAN’ as it were – why go to all the trouble, and spend all that money?
Just musing out loud...not necessarily intelligently
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Before the dancing commenced there was a drag show. Usually I think the drag shows are pretty fun – nothing at all like the kind that you could see down in New Orleans but still they are usually OK. But for some reason this particular drag show was a bit repugnant to me. I pretend to know all the ‘psychology’ involved with being a ‘Queen’ – I find nothing wrong with it – and I understand it as well as a ‘straight’ woman can...what I didn’t get about one of the drag queens on this particular night was that it seems ‘she’ had breast implants. Now obviously someone who is doing this for a living wants to look as real as possible and perhaps they are going so far as ‘having the operation’ to become a woman – and again I have no problems with this – but the 'breasts' on this particular ‘Queen’ were exposed and they were grotesque. Now, I am going to go out on a limb here and assume (which is probably wrong of me) that this individual paid A LOT OF MONEY for these breasts. Again it’s ‘her’ prerogative – but I have to tell you that if I was going to pay a lot of money for fake breasts they had better be the best looking fake breasts that money could afford (and perhaps these were).
I guess I lack insight into this sort of thing – but I could not help but be a bit turned off by all of this. Some of the drag queens I’ve seen in the past have been drop-dead gorgeous. This one was a handsome ‘woman’ very big/tall/big boned – but somehow I think the ‘breast job’ could have been better. I also didn’t get exposing the 'breasts' the audience either...I mean in a ‘strip’ club women EVENTUALLY take off their tops but there’s a ‘teasing’ going on it’s not quite so blatant. And perhaps it is in the nature of being a Drag Queen to go over the top...but if all they are looking for is to become a caricature of ‘WOMAN’ as it were – why go to all the trouble, and spend all that money?
Just musing out loud...not necessarily intelligently
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