Comment by n4r9
4 days ago
One difference is that dressing up with blackface and watermelon are historically ways in which white people have humiliated and oppressed black people. I don't think you can say the same for cross-dressing.
Another difference is that Dylan Mulvaney is actually living as a woman in their everyday life.
The stereotypes of women that Mulvaney is acting out have been used to belittle and disparage women both now and historically.
How exactly is he "living as a woman"? He's a man calling himself a woman. This is not the same at all.