The closest I've seen to traditional religious gender roles outside of that world is drag queen culture, weirdly? I don't mind it - i don't care if you're a drag queen or a housewife - just I wonder if this is evidence for the persistent allure of strong behavioral categories.
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Hard to pinpoint - body language, tone, subtle framing? I was watching a drag tv show and tried to imagine all the characters as actually women just being portrayed as women and it got offensive - references to fashion and beauty shoehorned into places where they weren't-
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It depends on the drag queen specifically. The individual believes they are playing a role, then there are rules to follow or they aren't "doing it right". If someone is living the lifestyle I believe that person may feel more free to act outside parameters of the role.
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I think people like donning coherent chunks of identity because crafting your own identity from nothing is incredibly hard. Traditional roles (or pieces of those roles) are easy to comprehend and see yourself as part of them.
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At least 2 drag queens reading books to kids at a public library in Houston have been outed as registered chomos (background checks weren't done before, apparently) #dayoftherope
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My understanding of drag culture is that gender roles are intentionally exaggerated as a form of celebration.
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"the persistent allure of strong behavioral categories" is just the allure of categories. Our brains operate Heuristically. The simpler the rules that can be applied to categorization and predictive expectations, the happier our subcon/uncon/lizard brains are.
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I'm...does this chick know that the whole primary purpose of drag is the mocking of gender roles?
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