Old School Drag Rule

I prefer more drag, less death and suffering.

But not more fascists either, which presents a dilemma.

I just like dead fascists I can't help it.
- I just hate suffering so much, even the suffering of those deliberately causing suffering. It's a weird philosophical paradox I struggle with and I'm not sure how to resolve it.

Fascists: Interrupting drag shows since 1938!

Actually ~~not~~ it's complicated.
Fascinating as it may sound, transvestites were mostly allowed in the third reich, when they weren't homosexual.

The even got their own pass:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvestite_pass

After reading the German and English version I am a little puzzled, since the German version says, that they were kept and transvestites stayed unharmed when not homosexual while the English version says:

After the Nazis came to power, most passes were revoked or German police refused to recognize them.

The German original source says the following:

Sofern Trans*personen den „gegen sie erhobenen Homosexualitätsverdacht entkräften konnten, lässt sich in keinem Fall eine Strafverfolgung nachweisen. "

Which translates to:

If trans*persons "could invalidate the suspicion of homosexuality, there is no evidence of criminal prosecution."

This is somehow more intimidating than uniforms.

I think it should be law that folks in drag are allowed to shoot nazis. Whether it’s actual members of national socialism or just anyone who gets too loose drawing swastikas.

I’m proud to upvote this.

When drag queens were men.

Wait…

This is funny but a little misleading for the vulnerable-minded. It’s not like they were having an actual drag show.

What, pray tell is a "real" drag show, then?
- I mean I suppose it’s all just shock humor so probably not all that different
I just knew there was going to be a Well akshually post like this. As if men putting on fancy feminine dresses and dancing around is only a ""drag show"" if it happens where you expect it to.

And WTF do you mean by vulnerable-minded?
- Weak minded people who are susceptible to buying into propaganda
it was exactly like they were having an actual drag show. maybe not the modern cultural understanding of one, but they were dressing up as women to play feminine roles in the context of a performance, which fits under the definition of a drag show. it was a common practice in both the British and US militaries.
lemmy.ml moment

this is confusing. what happened?

1940, some British soldiers were rehearsing for a drag show that they were putting on within their platoon because they could and because it was fun, it helps keep morale up during wartime. During rehearsal, the Germans begin their raid on Shornemead Fort, where said drag rehearsing troops were stationed. British Chads, without even stopping to change back into uniform, immediately man the naval guns and return fire on the Germans. One of them, instead of passing the ammo, took a photo of this because how could you not, it's incredible.
- Thanks for context. Here some examplary "source", shornemead fort brings up alot in search. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/british-soldiers-in-drag-nazis/
- yes, thank you for the context

Drag shows then seem different to drag shows now.

The joke is that is it men in drag. It's funny. I dressed as a woman on a rugby trip and got voted as best girl on tour. It was a funny humourous thing. In the way man play the evil ugly woman in a panto. "Lol jokes. That "woman" is so ugly she sounds and looks like a man."

Drag shows where the drag part of it is normalised. That ruins the entire original premise. That why it is entirely different.

It's the difference between a comedian playing a character that pretends to be disabled (the joke being the audience knows they aren't disabled and they are just lazy. The other characters do not). Verses an actor pretending to be disabled in a drama.

Same thing but entirely different.

So what's up with Nazi stuff currently? Why's that a topic?

We just love to discuss how awful Nazis are. Don't you agree?