One of the funny-sad parts of a culture that pays lip service to equity is how shocked people are when someone is many things. In SFF, we had a BIPOC lesbian who terrorized other BIPOC writers, & a trans disabled writer who turned out to be a nepo hire for Lockheed Martin... and every time, there's been silly shock at the idea that a marginalized person could be multifaceted.
Ditto with RuPaul, fracking magnate.
This is a fun, weary review of his memoir.
#PeopleArePeople
https://archive.ph/2KUxV
@MLClark Celebrity is a silly thing, isn't it? Society promotes a facade (regardless of the creator) that people cling to as the only possible perception of who they are as a human.
Sure, he's a queer god but is he anything more? What if something cracks the facade? How quickly is it repaired? Was it repaired with truth?
(I respect him for some things and wouldn't help him out of a pit over others.)
Oh, I love that question:
"Was it repaired with truth?"
I'm going to be holding that one in mind all day. Beautifully said.
"RuPaul summarizes the Great Migration in a paragraph that would be considered too concise even for a Wikipedia entry ...
Aside from breathtaking dismissiveness of the decades of racial violence that made the migration necessary, it’s chilling to see a public figure known as a champion of the marginalized so easily dismiss survivors of Jim Crow-era terror as people who 'hold onto their victim mentality so fiercely; it becomes a defining feature of their identity.'”
#NoCelebrities #OnlyHumans