The poor dears. A group of Confederate Something-Or-Others [it's always hard to tell... are they re-enactors? Just resentful and upset?] went on a field trip to the museum the other day. Not just any museum, though! They got to go to the Museum of the Confederacy in Appomattox, and everybody was excited and having a good time until this happened:
Oh god, it is not only a black, but it is a black who is also a drag queen! Expressing the inherent outrage contained in the fact that an exhibit at the museum featured RuPaul, the writer of the linked blog post titled that picture, “queer.” Well, I suppose you’re right, sir, but I’m confused as to why it makes you feel like a bigger man to point that out. It’s 2012. Anyway, here was the group’s reaction:
Yes, that is RuPaul…in all his/her glory, mocking our colors, and on display inside YOUR Museum of the Confederacy.
Not MY museum. I’m a Southerner, born and raised, but I also have self-esteem. Therefore, not my museum.
Yesterday, Va Flaggers visited the Museum of the Confederacy at Appomattox, and were outraged to discover a highly offensive display featuring a life-sized photo of cross-dresser Ru Paul, wearing a dress with an image of the Confederate Battle Flag. The photo that was secured and sent to other Flaggers was quickly disseminated…
The rest of us “take pictures,” but the Va Flaggers “secure them.” Wolverines!!!!11!!
Anyway, complain, complain, complain, and then the exhibit was removed, which probably is for the best, as General JC Christian* explains:
[W]e get so angry when our flag is displayed in such a way as to wickedly trick us into achieving a state of inappropriate tumescence…
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Absolutely shameful. Imagine their embarrassment as they found themselves desperately scrambling to hide their little Parrott rifles. Scores of turgid man cannons swinging wildly every which way, striking buttocks and, yes, even each other, as they vainly attempted to retreat from the sight of our glorious standard draped so erotically over large perky breasts, fleshy hips, and God help us, a hidden package of the most unheartlandish of hues.
And that is why everyone should be reading General JC Christian on a regular basis.
Anyway, this post is just an excuse to remind everyone out there of the sage wisdom RuPaul gives at the end of every episode of Drag Race: “If you can’t love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else?” Truth.
*Why would I know about this story if I wasn’t reading Jesus’ General?
Leave it to RuPaul to display anything in bad taste. Why this is included in the Comfederate Museum defies explanation…
Oh Hell Max, I am the most southern of southerners, and I think its hilarious. What other good use is there for that flag (except in a real museum…not a vanity museum). I give them credit for knowing to make fun of themselves.
And in this case, RuPaul shows EXQUISITE taste, and wonderful humor. :)
Never forget, if your ancestors fought for the south (as mine did, shamefully) that they were the bad guys. The south was not noble, its goals were not noble, and the battle flag is not a noble or glorious thing. So, we might as well have fun with it. I mean, what else is it good for, when you consider what I stands for?
“Never forget, if your ancestors fought for the South, they were the bad guys.”
YEP!
And I have that in my heritage too, as well as Union soldiers.
I think she wore that gown in the movie To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar (a fabulous movie). Her name was Rachel Tension. hahahaha I doubt if RuPaul even knows that that museum exists.
In their defense (I can’t believe I just said that), it does seem inappropriate for the museum, as it has nothing to do with the history of the Confederacy.
It also seems inappropriate in general, as it is a dress with the Confederate flag, but that’s another topic.
I love RuPaul, and had a good laugh over the fact that the life-size portrait was found in the museum, LOL! And I needed a good laugh today. However, I don’t find anything funny about Bigots! I was born and raised in the south and absolutely cannot stand where I am from. I love a lot of places in the south, just not my hometown. Most people in the town “love” the “Confederacy”! There is No shortage of publicly displayed Confederate flags flapping in the wind. It’s very common to hear conversations about how “great” or “superior” the Confederacy is and how “things would be so much better if the south had never lost”. Really…Seriously!? Talk about sore losers! I think they were just mad that they found a “drag queen” to be hot…hence the observation of RuPaul’s “large perky breasts” and “fleshy hips”, LOL!
I’m upset by the fact that the dress is over ten years old. Ru wore it in “To Wong Foo.”
My birth parents were from the South and sorry, I want nothing to do with the racism, the homohatred–hell, just the general state of hatred so many in the South seem to cherish. Not all, of course, but enough that this old queen wants nothing to do with it.
Actually, RuPaul looks fabulous in that dress. Problem with some people is they can’t stand to see themselves spoofed. I try to laugh at myself at least once a day.
At least a few of the South rose again.
Okay, first I loved RuPaul in ‘To Wong Foo…’ that dress, that name ‘Rachel Tension’ – that was pure fabulousness.
But wait… this life-size picture was standing in the Museum of the Confederacy?!?
I think it’s damn funny… but a part of my brain keeps screaming ‘But what was it doing there?’
Well, Southerners do love drag….
The “secured” comment on the photos is just so terribly pathetic. A bunch of fat, middle-aged, bearded fools think they are on some sort of covert military operation protecting Southern heritage.
I just loved RuPaul in that dress! I have both a DVD and old Cassette VHS copy of To Wong Fu in my personal library and love Rachel Tensions!
I must admit it was I who had that picture of her blown to life size and placed in the museum. I loved her part in the movie and watch Drag Race when I can, and saw no problem with having her displayed inside.
She now sits beside my entertainment center :^)
If your from the south and think that the flag represents racism then your either 1) Not from the south and just running your mouth 2) You were living in a cave for the last 50 years. Keep on hating it and getting all bent out of shape yanks the flag will be here a long long long long time after you body dissolves in the ground.
What’s next conf3derate_hacker? Trying to claim that slavery, the whole reason that flag exists in the first place I might add, wasn’t racist?
Society has already spoken on this conf3derate_hacker. Hell, even here in GA we dropped that racist rag from our state flag because we know how the world, inside and outside of our borders looks at the confederate flag. I am in Georgia, not New England, or Oregon, or one of those other areas where teen pregnancy rates are low, poverty rates are lower than here, tolarance is higher, income is higher, people live longer healthier lives, and eductional stanards and high school and college graduation rates are higher than in the glorious south. And I was raised in the south, and am as southern as they come.
But I am not in denial.
Also, I do business all over this nation and in several others. The history of that flag speaks for itself all over the world, and self denial on the part of rednecks who want to think that it, or the love of it, is still respectable, are the ones who can’t face the the truth.
And, RuPaul looked FABULOUS in it :)