QUESTION ASKED: Why is blackface “quite rightly unacceptable while drag gets bigger by the day…if the Black and White Minstrels are insulting and reactionary, why aren’t drag queens? If someone can explain to me why race-based parody is bad and sex-based parody ‘a bit of fun’, I’d love to know. Woke me up and tell me why!”
It’s Julie Burchill at Spiked, so read the whole thing.