Michelle O participates in SNL drag skit. Isnt this demeaning to LGBT crowd?

[Super_Lantern]

Men dressing as women in an over-the-top humorous manner, doesn't this belittle and insult transgender individuals? I'm surprised left-leaning SNL did this skit and even more surprised Michelle Obama was in it

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How is that any different from white people using blackface?

I can't help but think there would be outrage over something like this if the skit wasn't done by SNL and featured a conservative politician instead. I feel something like that would be labeled as "more ridiculous intolerance from the right"

 

[Bombur]

Men dressing as women can be funny. Kids in the Hall made a living off of it.

Maybe if you were not always looking to be upset you wouldn't be such a huge cry baby.

 

[Stephanie]

like I said, does she ever stay home to raise her children?

I have never been more sick of a President and his wife than these two

 

[Super_Lantern]

Men dressing as women can be funny. Kids in the Hall made a living off of it.

Maybe if you were not always looking to be upset you wouldn't be such a huge cry baby.

Why is it okay for men to dress as women but its not okay for men to dress as another race in a humor routine?

 

[JimH52]

No

 

[whitehall]

Funny how the entertainment elites get to laugh at hairy men in dresses while they expect the rest of us to treat them like ladies.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Michelle O participates in SNL drag skit. Isnt this demeaning to LGBT crowd?

Not at all.

 

[bodecea]

How horrible! Simply horrible! (not sure why...but roll with it) Absolutely horrible!