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Wed Nov 13, 2013, 03:41 PM Nov 2013

Manila Luzon Proves That Drag Queens Make Better Role Models Than Princesses

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lilyhiottmillis/manila-luzon-proves-that-drag-queens-make-better-role-models



“When it comes down to it, I respect drag queens,” she wrote. “They are artists. They are able to conceptualize an idea and transform themselves — without the help of magic, I might add. They are risk takers. They are punk. But Disney princesses? They are a man-made franchise created to sell cheaply made shit to our daughters. They are a perpetuation of the stereotype of the weak, dumb woman who obediently waits for a man to come along and make her valuable. Between the two I’ll always promote the big-wigged man crooning ‘I’m Every Woman.’ Werq.”


So Fusion set up a play date with Manila Luzon from RuPaul’s Drag Race and Joselyn, a 10-year-old girl.



They started by hanging out at the playground.


Joselyn was so excited!


And then, naturally, they went to a drag show.
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