Texas university cancels drag show saying it 'denigrates' women, akin to 'blackface'
West Texas A&M University originally planned 'A Fool's Drag Race' for Mar. 31
By Lindsay Kornick | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-univ...-akin-blackface


Walter Wendler, the campus president of West Texas A&M University, criticized drag shows as an event that demeans and diminishes women while canceling an event on campus.

Wendler sent out an email to the school on Monday announcing that the college would not be hosting a planned drag show charity performance titled "A Fool’s Drag Race" on Mar. 31. The performance was originally meant to raise money for the transgender crisis management non-profit organization The Trevor Project.

While Wendler supported donating money to the organization itself, he denounced drag shows as demeaning to women under the subject headline "A Harmless Drag show? No Such Thing."

"Does a drag show preserve a single thread of human dignity? I think not. As a performance of exaggerating aspects of womanhood (sexuality, femininity, gender), drag shows stereotype women in cartoon-like extremes for the amusement of others and discriminate against womanhood. Any event that diminishes an individual or group through representation is wrong," Wendler wrote.

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He also compared the act of taking part in drag shows akin to "blackface" in terms of denigration.

"As a university president, I would not support 'blackface' performances on our campus, even if told the performance is a form of free speech or intended as humor. It is wrong. I do not support any show, performance or artistic expression which denigrates others—in this case, women—for any reason," he wrote. -- excerpt, rest at link above --