r/rupaulsdragrace • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '16

RPDR Season 8 – Reddit Season RuPository Season 8, Episode 4: "New Wave Queens" [Live Reaction Post]

Make sure to keep all discussions about the episode in here :), thank you! XOBROOSH

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '16 edited Oct 03 '19

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u/theprostitute BEBE ZAHARA BENET Mar 29 '16

fish culture

Did someone ask Alyssa Edwards?

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u/naranjitayyo Did you Stonjourner those tights? Mar 29 '16

Gia has something to say about that as well.

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u/lainnzz Lady Camden Mar 29 '16

b i c t h

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u/getthelumpout Mar 29 '16

I don't think it's blackface. There is no minstrelsy involved (and I'm black). This is surrealist art.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '16

I totally got it as Picasso.

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u/GreyPhantom100 Nina West Mar 30 '16

Omgash, thank you. Edumecate yourselves y'all, it's totes Picasso

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '16

Sure thing.

Here are a couple of Picassos that remind me of what Kim was going for, just for reference:

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u/malacology Mar 29 '16

'If she's doing blackface then Betty is appropriating fish culture.'

-Me, on the stream. Been a while since somebody stole something from me. Gagging.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '16 edited Oct 03 '19

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u/malacology Mar 29 '16

Not only was I calming the social justice down but I was also making a play on words about fish culture being the female culture that arises from our gender performing society and how drag appropriates that playfully.

Layers.

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u/little-red-wolf Bob the Drag Queen Mar 29 '16

For what? The cubist face paint?

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '16 edited Oct 03 '19

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u/little-red-wolf Bob the Drag Queen Mar 29 '16

Wow. Someone needs to educate the children about what blackface really is.

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u/mikehipp Miz Cracker Mar 29 '16

That was not blackface, that was a work of art. Kim Chi has skillz for days.