What's up with drag (kings)?

[Allamakee]

What's up with drag?
Cherrie
by Kate O'Halloran     
December 21, 2009

http://cherrie.e-p.net.au/features/what-s-up-with-drag.html

I will be the first to admit I have always felt particularly ambivalent about drag kings. On the one hand I admit to squeamishness at the vulgarity of names like Max Fukter, BustHerr and BangHerr, Justin Sider and so on. On the other, I long for drag to be a performative medium for challenging gendered and sexual norms – and love it when I feel it does this successfully. But is that what drag is really about? Or does it have to be about anything at all?

I spoke to a diversity of kings about how they perceive drag and its meaning, and discovered a few things about a topic so enamoured to the queer community.

[tekla]

I long for drag to be a performative medium for challenging gendered and sexual norms

And here I thought that's what they were doing.  When they get TV or newspapers where Kate lives she'll be up on all this stuff.  Really, statements like: It occurs to me that drag is often about the presentation of a gendered position different from the one you inhabit in your everyday life is not exactly Einstein territory. That article read like she's out for Ric Romero's job.