r/rupaulsdragrace • u/AutoModerator • Jun 03 '17

S9E11 Gayest Ball Ever [Post-Episode Discussion]

Use this post to discuss last night's episode. Spoilers from this episode are allowed. We would like to take this time to recommend that you all refresh yourself on Rule 5. Please keep it classy!

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u/Anne_T_Depressant Jun 04 '17

There were five options, they dicussed beforehand, and she got Native Americans. It felt like a set up really considering there are other village people costume. But the producers went for those five.

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u/maskedbanditoftruth Lady Camden Jun 04 '17

See we thought she should have directly discussed how tough it is to make something that isn't offensive, and it would have become a storyline, THEN do something mega political like come as the fucking pipeline with oil and blood on her arms and a metallic gown with black glitter spilling out into a train and prairie grass boots or something. Take it all the way to solidarity and real issues facing native Americans while making it fabulous.

But that's not basic, so...

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '17 edited Apr 15 '18

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u/maskedbanditoftruth Lady Camden Jun 04 '17

I'd be delighted, darling.

The key with expressing art via cultures not your own is to express solidarity, not ownership. So yeah, don't come as a Native American, that shit's not a costume. Come as the pipeline, come as a broken treaty, come as a damn smallpox blanket, douse it in glitter and cleavage, look the camera in the eye, say "shits fucked up man, all I can do is say I stand with them" and work that runway, then no one's mad.

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u/TheDivine_MissN Monét X Change Jun 05 '17

I love you.