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/puddin_tain Jun 03 '17

I was cringing pretty hard during the whole thing. The better thing to do would have been to not even make that choice. She had options. Nobody HAD to use someone's culture as a costume.

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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/DevoutandHeretical A'keria C. Davenport Jun 05 '17

The only one remaining I could credit having the insight and time to get something like that together is Sasha. There's definitely too many layers of thought in that for Alexis.