Response

          Make femininity mainstream

We have learned the masculine and feminine in class, and we define masculine is brave, aggressive, capable, dominant while feminine is passive, domestic, subordinate. It seems like men are always in dominant position but women are in subordinate position. Fetterley said: “American literature is male. To read the canon of what is currently considered classic American literature is perforce to identify as male”. People want to be men, and to be capable, dominant, and powerful.

But Rupaul breaks with tradition. He is a man but he performs as a woman. He hosts the reality television show RuPaul's Drag Race to show the beauty of men who perform like women. He brings the spectrum of male-to-female performance and femininity into mainstream popular culture. I think his behavior and his TV show change the traditional thought which feminine is subordinate and submissive. He looks feminine in other way, and he finds out other characters from feminine by performing as a woman. When they perform, they are beautiful, confident, sexy, aggressive, active…They want to show the dominate feminine, not subordinate anymore, and they make femininity mainstream.

I think Rupaul is creative and he has a good idea, and I support his behavior. Feminine should be changed in people’s traditional mind and feminine can be mainstream.