#genderperformance

[miss-whore-locke]

A few of my recent drag looks

[sladekt2]

Ricky Bobby and the Performance of Masculinity

Talladega Nights critiques toxic masculinity by using Ricky Bobby to demonstrate how bravado and homophobia reveal the instability of performed masculinity. Ricky lives by the motto, “If you're not first you're last.” This sums up his entire idea of masculinity: a man’s worth comes only from winning. Losing means being worthless. The movie exaggerates this belief until it becomes absurd, showing how exhausting it is to live that way.

Ricky’s response to Jean Girard, his openly gay French rival, shows how he uses homophobia to maintain his social image. He reacts with fear, hostility, and avoidance rather than respect. Heather Laine Talley and Monica J. Casper call this a form of benign homophobia: humorous on the surface but reflecting real anxieties about gender and sexuality (434).

When Ricky crashes and can no longer race, his entire identity collapses. He panics in a normal car, runs from imagined fire, and believes he is paralyzed when he is not. His wife leaves him for Cal immediately after his loss, underscoring that masculinity based solely on performance is fragile and unsustainable.

Ricky Bobby stabbing himself to prove he is not paralyzed

Ricky Bobby’s bravado and homophobia reveal the instability of performed masculinity. His identity collapse demonstrates that toxic masculinity is performative, fragile, and unsustainable.

Ricky’s collapse due to personal performance naturally shifts the discussion to how cultural expectations, particularly Southern stereotypes, reinforce and shape these fragile behaviors.

[aheroicvisionoflife]

October 2022/4 If gender is the cultural meanings that the sexed body assumes, then a gender cannot be said to follow from a sex in any one way. Taken to its logical limit, the sex/gender distinction suggests a radical discontinuity between sexed bodies and culturally constructed genders. Assuming for the moment the stability of binary sex, it does not follow that the construction of “men” will accrue exclusively to the bodies of males or that “women” will interpret only female bodies. Further, even if the sexes appear to be unproblematically binary in their morphology and constitution (which will become a question), there is no reason to assume that genders ought also to remain as two. The presumption of a binary gender system implicitly retains the belief in a mimetic relation of gender to sex whereby gender mirrors sex or is otherwise restricted by it. When the constructed status of gender is theorised as radically independent of sex, gender itself becomes a free-floating artifice, with the consequence that man and masculine might just as easily signify a female body as a male one, and woman and feminine a male body as easily as a female one. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, 1990

[miezemia]

'We were all born naked. The Rest is Drag.' 📸: @julianbehrenbeck #GenderPerformance #heterofuckable #portrait #drag #dragking #queenswithvaginas #tattoedskin #tattoedwomen #gaygirlmagic #dyke #femme #lipsticklesbian #maleperformance #malemakeup #daddy #girlswithshorthair #lgbt #queer #gayasfuck #julianbehrenbeck (hier: Hamburg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFZd4I7HliB/?igshid=16pfe663es2yg

[miezemia]

❤️🌈 Happy International Lesbian Visibility Day 🌈❤️ This is a good day to let your inner Dyke shine through. #Tomboy #happyinternationalLesbianVisibilityDay #Lesbian #LesbianVisibility #GenderPerformance #Lesbe #dyke #lesbenGermany #queerGirls #getagirlthatcandoboth #femme #hanky #flagging #lgbt #pride #hereandqueer #schwuleMädchen (hier: Hamburg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_cXwphnz0c/?igshid=1b1jp50xeq6l

[ultraevonne]

#tbt What up bellxs? Where the #charreada at? Me performing suavecito #charro realness at 7 yrs old 🐴💕🐴 #folklorico #genderperformance #gendernonessentialism (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxi3ljnAJQXbkcxy92ujSQV19Wyt8fix2-PkPA0/?igshid=esx8ceh2kzho

[tamalerocks]

A dance between partners. #fire #firedance #firedancing #fireperformance #fireperformer #perform #performance #drag #dragqueen #dragking #queen #king #genderperformance #tamaleandsafetythird (at Austin, Texas)

[tamalerocks]

This weekend I had an event at work and a video shoot on Sunday. I looked normal at the beginning of the event, but when I returned, I looked like a dominatrix in sneakers and no one batted an eye. So grateful for a life where I can be just exactly who I am and do all the things I love. 🖤🖤🖤 #comedy #performance #comedian #fire #firedancing #genderperformance #grinding #art #artist #creative #COH #CenterOnHalsted #TenYrs #WeWillPersist #chicago (at Center on Halsted)