Eureka Sisters Present: Witchin’ 4 the Kitchen Bingo Benefiting Eureka Woman’s Club
Press release from the Eureka Sisters:
Have you ever looked at your kitchen and longed for it to magically be renovated? Have you ever stood before a bubbling pot and longed to feel powerful? Are sparkly visions of chanting arcane words in unison with a gaggle of crones filling your head? Good! That means our glitter ritual worked!!
Join your Eureka Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence on October 19th as we chant “free s***” at “Witchin’ 4 the Kitchen Bingo” benefitting the Eureka Woman’s Club. Last time we got together we helped build a bathroom, now the Club’s kitchen is in need of fixin’! There’s nothing like kickin’ off the spooky season with some ritual (fiscal) sacrifice benefiting a beloved community institution!
And what better way to contribute to the magic than to dress the part? Don your pointed shoes, chef hat, spaghetti wig, pumpkin apron, and grab your spatula and crystal ball! Attendees will be pitted against one another to see who will win the title of “Culinary Conjurer Supreme” in a costume contest for the ages! Will a pastafarian monstrosity prevail or perhaps a humble gingerbread witch will steal the crown? We will just have to wait and see!
The Woman’s Club will be bringing their own delights to the event as well! An array of concessions will be available for purchase in the bingo hall and per California Gambling Law, there will be a separate 21+ room where alcoholic beverages can be purchased and consumed. You MUST show proof of ID. No alcohol is allowed in the bingo hall.
All profits from the bingo, concessions, and drinks will benefit the Eureka Woman’s Club and will ensure that they are able to continue with their renovation of the Club’s kitchen.
Presale tickets ($25) will be available prior to the event online at eurekawomansclub.org or at Scrapper’s Edge. A small amount of tickets will be available at the door ($35). Seating at the event is first-come first-serve. 32 VIP tickets ($50) will be available exclusively online, and include reserved seating, food, a drink ticket, and special teasing from the Sisters. Buy your tickets ASAP, this event WILL sell out.
“Witchin’ for the Kitchen Bingo” will occur Saturday, October the 19th at the Eureka Woman’s Club (1531 J. St., Eureka). Doors will open at 5:00 pm, bingo will start at 6:00 pm, and the estimated end time is 9:00pm.
Have you ever looked at your kitchen and longed for it to magically be renovated? Have you ever stood before a bubbling pot and longed to feel powerful? Are sparkly visions of chanting arcane words in unison with a gaggle of crones filling your head? Good! That means our glitter ritual worked!!
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Mocking the religiously sincere is hateful.
Then don’t attend.
I believe it is very important to respect religious beliefs, and I believe respect goes both ways. In my admittedly limited experience of their events, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence use satire to bring attention to social issues, including acceptance and compassion for marginalized groups, especially in the LGBTQ+ community.
I believe their performances aren’t intended to mock faith itself but to challenge hypocrisy and promote inclusivity. Just as we respect the deeply held beliefs of religious individuals, it’s also important to recognize that satire can be a tool for advocacy, not necessarily hate.
I have to hope that both faith and freedom of expression can coexist in a way that builds understanding and lets us deal with our discomfort with the breaking of cultural norms with laughter and warmth.
As a Pastafarian, I took no offense.
As a Grammar Nazi, I’m outraged that ‘pastafarian’ wasn’t capitalized.
Nor did the Witch, my Wife, take offense.
Mocking women is also… well, i don’t use the word “hateful” as it’s a robustly overused word, and being resilient, i’ll be fine despite the “playful” way these dudes mock and caricature women.
Many people see drag as a form of performance art that celebrates individuality and creativity rather than mocking anyone. Drag has a long history of challenging gender norms and offering a space for people to express themselves in ways that might not fit traditional roles. It’s not meant to mock women but to explore and expand how we think about gender and identity.
But many people don’t see drag that way. To each his/her own. I do like to speak up to counter the generally mainstream narrative. And i’m glad you speak up to defend your point of view! I would never try to shut anyone down… if that’s their way of expressing their view of femininity, well, okay, it’s a free country. But i do find it offensive. I know… i just won’t go. That was a given!
It may a performance art but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t mock women. Have you ever heard a drag queen say they impersonate women because they really admire them? Do they ever even mention typical women’s concerns of pregnancy, motherhood, relationships, friendships, at all? Do they ever give feminine characteristics a loving homage? Mothers, loving grandmothers, or that special aunt? Nope. It’s all hypersexuality all the time and nothing else.“Call me Gigi, she’s my fearless alter-ego,” she says of her drag persona. “She’s glamorous, has crazy energy, and is a total slut.” It’s males pandering to themselves. “Therefore, what constitutes authentic drag must challenge and disrupt existing gender norms.”
https://www.spot.ph/newsfeatures/newsfeatures-peopleparties/74269/for-these-queens-life-s-a-drag-but-it-s-worth-it-a1894-20180705-lfrm2?s=4ia2aerq62ku9ikens3sbfjifc
Or do they parody women by exaggerating? Taller hair, longer nails, brihhter lipstick, higher heels,lots of glitter and dramatics but no kindness, gentleness nor any typical womanly attribute. No loving mothers, nurses in scrubs, teachers of kindergartens without huge exaggerations. Of course satire is 99% of the “art.” It’s all mock mock, mock. It wouldn’t be a show otherwise. There is no rationalizing that away . It may be art but it means to be mean.
“Cabaret diva Miz Ima Starr says problematic portrayals of women through drag are omnipresent.
“When I started doing drag 25 years ago, there wasn’t anyone I knew doing drag that wasn’t misogynistic, and it’s something we continue to see today” she says.”
https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/national-news/does-drag-still-have-misogyny-problem/174405
Thanks for the input, Yabut. Basically, and i’m sure this is an oversimplification that someone could split hairs about– but basically it’s the sex/gender form of blackface. It’s irksome that while blackface is now fairly universally shunned (because even if it’s done “lovingly” it’s done by non-black people assuming exaggerated features and mannerisms of those they’re caricaturing), “womanface” gets a pass.
Not one defender of drag or the trans fad has been able to explain this discrepancy. The ONLY defenses they have are: 1– It’s not nice to not be nice all the time to everyone no matter what; everything is nice except judgmentalism, which is definitely not nice, so what’s it to you what people do; and 2– We judge you to be a fundamentalist right-wing Trumpian fascist if you don’t love this fad, so now you won’t dare ever say a thing and we can all agree to be nice and hold no dissenting opinions ever, because (see #1).
What’s weird is that it’s often women who most strenuously defend and encourage it all. (Woman’s Club of Eureka? Hello?) It must be some kind of Stockholm Syndrome or Uncle Tom thing, kissing up to the oppressor. Can you imagine black people nowadays encouraging white people to come to their events in blackface? Watching them do some horrible old minstrel show routines? Laughing and enjoying it? Excusing it because their act is raising some money? Sheesh.
Yoko Ono was right! “Woman is the n@#$%.. of the world!”
I’ve changed my mind based on your comparison of “womanface” to “blackface” – no matter the intentions of the “performers” drag functions to mock and demean women as well as their achievements and aspirations.
With the exception of “drag queen story hour” (an obvious attempt to condition and recruit children) I saw drag as harmless fun – but looking beyond the humor and seeing it for what it is, it’s impossible to un-see it.
One of the ironies is that it’s a marginalized group of men who are dressing up and marginalizing women.
Many feminists support drag because it expands the conversation around gender and identity, creating a space where people can express femininity in a way that may not fit traditional molds. Like any art form, drag is complex and open to interpretation, but I see it as expanding—not mocking—the expression of femininity. Do some drag queen’s hate and mock women? Sure, just like some feminists hate and mock men but most don’t.
Dolly Parton is basically a woman in drag–exaggerated femininity, impossible hair, breasts, finger nails. She’s not mocking being a woman though is she? She’s using a persona to express herself. If a woman dresses in lumberjack clothes and cuts her hair in a “mannish” style is she mocking men? Or is she just playing with gender, finding her own style that expresses parts of her personality?
What if we change a few words in your opening paragraph:
“Many Abolitionists support minstrel shows because they expand the conversation around race and identity, creating a space where people can express racial characteristics in a way that may not fit traditional molds. Like any art form, minstrel shows are complex and open to interpretation, but I see it as expanding—not mocking—the expression of racial equality.”
Do you see it?
Dolly Parton and the woman dressed as a lumberjack are expressing themselves, albeit in different ways, but they’re not pretending to be something they’re not and they’re not mocking anyone.
Literally, a woman dressed in male clothes is just fine but a man dressed in female clothing is bad?
I find it difficult that I’m a woman having to note that that is men being oppressed. One of the fucked up things in this world is that my three sons have to fit very narrow limits of acceptable expression to be valued as men.
Intentionally missing the point?
It isn’t that drag performers are dressed in female clothing, it’s that they’re pretending to be women and projecting exaggerated stereotypes that are frequently demeaning to women.
But please explain how “blackface” is offensive but “womanface” is not?
PS to Kym:
Somehow I missed your second paragraph where you say:
“One of the fucked up things in this world is that my three sons have to fit very narrow limits of acceptable expression to be valued as men.”
Are we living in the same world?
AFAIK men have never had greater freedom of self expression especially in terms of sexual orientation.
But what exactly do you mean?
Greater freedom is not great freedom. Freedom of expression isn’t what I see. I see the son of a friend twirling with sparkling scarfs and getting mocked by adult males and other kids. I see a man wearing fingernail polish and getting stared at. I see women wearing pants every day but I almost never see a man wear a dress and if I do, there’s snickering and sideways stares.
IDK – it’s easy to focus on the exceptions and we’ll never live in perfect world but there’s never been greater acceptance for gay and lesbian people.
But it’s interesting how you’ve injected the supposed oppression of men into a discussion about marginalizing women!
But back to the point of the discussion, please explain how “blackface” is offensive but “womanface” is not?
Acceptance of LGBTQ+ people has grown significantly, and that’s something to celebrate. But the increased acceptance of differences doesn’t always translate to complete acceptance, especially when it comes to challenging traditional gender norms. My response is not about oppression in a vacuum—it’s about recognizing that limiting expectations hurt everyone, whether we’re talking about men, women, or nonbinary folks.
By discussing the narrow limits society places on men, I’m not diminishing the experiences of marginalized women. (In fact, I’m usually being excoriated for being too feminist.)
I believe that challenging rigid gender norms for one group benefits everyone. Both men and women should be free to express themselves without fear of ridicule, judgment, or hostility. That’s part of the larger fight for equality. And, in my not very informed opinion, the more accepting we are of people having a wide range of gender behavior the less likely we are to have people needing to do drastic surgery to try and find happiness by making their body fit what society tells them they have to look like in order to enjoy sparkly scarfs and nail polish.
Many if not most LGBTQ+ people experience complete acceptance in the worlds they travel in – those who discriminate should be marginalized just as racists were before a certain former president made it acceptable to be openly racist.
But being accepted as “normal” isn’t enough for gender activists who seek to destroy gender norms and like it or not, heterosexuality is still the norm.
All the nonsense about cisgender, non-binary, gender fluid, sex-assigned-at-birth, etc. is designed to push a radical gender activist agenda that seeks to destroy existing norms.
You can say:
“And the more accepting we are of people having a wide range of gender behavior the less likely we are to have people needing to do drastic surgery….” but the reality is just the opposite.
Most people have no concern about adults transitioning but think it’s inappropriate for children to chemically or surgically transition when they can’t legally get a tattoo.
That issue – and the abomination of allowing biological males to compete in girl’s and women’s sports – could easily make the difference in battleground states.
Ummmm … the Sisters and their champions want young people, even children, to have surgery whereby they chop off parts of their body to conform to the lunacy that is this transgender ideology.
I accept your terms: no plastic surgery for anyone, we all live in the bodies we were born in.
What an amazing world that might be and #BigPharma would lose out big time. Love it.
Sorry I mean to quote you:
And, in my not very informed opinion, the more accepting we are of people having a wide range of gender behavior the less likely we are to have people needing to do drastic surgery to try and find happiness by making their body fit what society tells them they have to look like in order to enjoy sparkly scarfs and nail polish.
Sort of like 4 stages of one’s adoption of a new dogma or deep awareness (wokeism?), but all will never be achieved by those one wants to proselytize to. That is, at least how I see it; awareness, tolerance, acceptance, and embracing whatever concept. The last one is the most fleeting. People can accept “you for you” yet still not agree with your behaviours and choices, let alone go out and preach what you preach. That much is simply never going to happen when people have a devout belief in anything that is diametrically opposed to your own. You are never going to get them over that last hurdle you think they need to jump over. And that’s where the fights begin, and we’re right back to intolerance square one.
Minstrel black face was meant explicitly to mock black people to denigrate them. And you can complain that drag queens are mocking women and probably there are some who do mock women but the reality of what little drag I’ve seen is that it is about humor and love and fun and gender role expansion. I don’t see them saying or doing denigrating things about women. I see them having fun playing around with sexuality and gender roles.
And this event description is very clearly respectful of women in spite of you claiming that all drag isn’t respectful of women.
They objectify women just as minstrel shows objectified black people. And neither do it with sensativity. Neither are interested in nuance. Only stereotypes. And just like minstrel shows did it to entertain an audience who held those stereotypes as real, so does drag pander to sexualized stereotypes of women.
How anyone could see it as just “gender role expansion” is disturbing. Fun and humor it may be but it is always at the expense of affirming harmful stereotyping.
Minstrel blackface was initially accepted by many people, including blacks, as opening doors to expressing themes of social change and increasing opportunities for black performers (who did perform in blackface).
As you said earlier, any art form is complex in its expression but I think we’ve reached the point where “drag” as an element of positive social change for women has outlived it’s usefulness – and now it’s just a drag!
One of my oldest friends is a “drag queen”, and gay (I say that as there are more than a few hetero guys out there that play the part for a good show and I’ve been to a few). I can assure you it’s more about expression with some pomp and circumstance in the name of a good time. Outside of that is well….small town hillbilly ignorance and whatever phobias of people that are “different”.
Like “small town hillbilly ignorance and whatever phobias ” isn’t a complete parochial and arrogant dismissal. Hello? A good time ridiculing a whole substantial group of the population to make a show “fun” for the others is making money pandering to the hateful. Always was and still is.
BTW, although I know giving a personal example as telling against a bigots abuse which will be in turn dismissed, I have lived (not vacationed) in major cities from the east coast to the west coast, in Asia and Europe too. I recognize the evidence of small minded bigotry when I read it. It’s coming from people calling out “hillbillies” here. It’s coming from the small experience of thinking that coming from some niche in California is the same thing as being -hmm- cosmopolitan. And I’m being polite.
I’ve plenty of miles and nights in all weather under my belt too, so that’s not all that impressive if you want to discredit me. Yay for you. Hope ya learned something along the way. However, you can still be a raging, racist bigot or a Mother Teresa with closely held, unwavering beliefs and travel throughout the world. Or just some social pariah with a bus ticket. I call it as I see it. Offense is taken, not given. It’s that well….we’ll change the verbiage if the word choice of “hillbilly” is such an issue for you, I suppose to unsophisticated, insular, xenophobic, often monotheistic thinking and reasoning, with intentionally(?) lacking in cultural awareness and norms outside of their local areas, yet often exhibit extreme views based on personal, unchecked, unquestioned biases. Or more simply put, they don’t get out much. But you do you.
That’s funny, Truth, that you posted the altered version of Kym’s original paragraph– i almost did the same exact thing last night. I mentally changed everything to a racial, rather than gender, issue, and yep, it’s as bizarre as you reveal here!
Even the extremely sincere-in-her-flattery Rachel Dolezal was widely condemned and cancelled for her assumption of another racial identity. Why was that– why didn’t society indulge her fantasy and call it “not-nice” to reject her presumption in calling herself the member of a marginalized group which, in fact, she was NOT born into?
It is an indefensible double standard.
Agree – and it was your citing “womanface” that switched the light on for me.
And using Kym’s own words but substituting gender terms for racial ones illustrates the double standard perfectly since it’s apparently still acceptable to act out exaggerated stereotypes of women while calling it an art form.
I’ve wondered also about the societal double standard of approving, even encouraging, children who’s sex is unambiguously and biologically male or female to “ transition” while canceling anyone who suggests a similar approach to race.
Kym, i believe if a woman dresses in lumberjack clothes and cuts her hair off, she’s just being practical– not particularly making a statement other than “reject the paradigm.” When you live in the country and work outside or getting dirty frequently, you wear practical, rugged clothes. In other words, workaday “men’s” clothing is a default setting, saying nothing about gender roles. Says more about one’s function in the world. Whereas “women’s” clothing is often an artificial intervention involving discomfort, body modification or illusion-creation, etc., evolving from corsets and bustles to today’s body-hair removal, addition of extensions (to eyelashes, head hair, fingernails, breasts, etc.)– i think you see.
The very idea that dressing practically and comfortably, not giving a darn what you look like but how you function and feel, is “manly” is part of the stereotype that needs challenging.
Poor Dolly is often used as an example of how we should be fair to drag queens and other dudes trotting themselves out as women– she’s a woman and we’re okay with that, right, so why is it not okay for men? But for the record, although i am not fit to tie Dolly’s sandals as far as talent, beauty, charisma, benevolence, etc., go, i would probably move to the other side of the car in the unlikely event of encountering her on public transportation. Fakeness freaks me out. Plastic this and that, chemical smells, surgically altered body parts, faces that are mere masks on the flesh and blood of what once looked human… it’s alien to a natural country woman, whether it’s on a male or a female.
And while the drag and gender-fluid community say they’re “challenging” the gender roles, they seem to need to do it by actually reinforcing them. In fact, they would “challenge” a role by NOT dressing up like the little metal women on truck mudflaps– by ignoring it, not by perpetuating it. Maybe they think they’re reminding us of it, in case we forgot that the stereotypes exist? Uh, no. Advertising, any online images of women other than real people’s everyday shots, and the online selfies of generations of sadly confused young women making duck lips while pushing their boobs up, are still everywhere. To repeat that image while pretending to challenge it is absurd. (And i am not saying it’s wrong to look or act sexy. It’s the parody of the ideas of that sexiness, by people who have never been subject to the encouragement to follow them, that bothers me.)
One more point (before donning my masculine jeans and work shirt for a day working around my place) is something mentioned in the link Yabut put up earlier in this thread. Beyond the comparison of blackface with womanface: what about gayface? Supposed gay mannerisms being mocked? The question was about those moronic high-school guys, ostensibly straight males, who used to (at least back in my day) do a gay act of prancing around, tsking and holding up limp wrists, speaking with a lisp in a sing-songy voice– you don’t see that kind of mockery very often nowadays! It’s gone the way of blackface– unacceptable for people NOT of a group to parody those in the group (unless it’s a Dylan Mulvaney pretending to be a woman, of course. But not a straight white male pretending to be Dylan Mulvaney!). It’s particularly ridiculous if they then claim they’re making fun of, or exposing, society’s prescribed roles.
Women are universally the most oppressed marginalized invalidated kidnapped and murdered … Thank you Laura for being a voice of reason.
As misogyny rules this planet OF COURSE it takes a man to show the world what being a woman is all about. 😆 And Target Corp modifying women’s clothing to ACCOMMODATE A PENIS was a final straw for me.
Before we all start cheering on the co-opting of everything female by men, can we first just create women’s clothing that functions – for a woman- like how about pockets that actually hold stuff??? We get fake, or worse, a ridiculous 1″ deep pocket that cash immediate falls out of, while the designers are scrambling to create a whole damn pouch for a nut sack!
I have concerns for the mental health of these drag drama queens and celebrity embarrassments like Dylan mulvanney. It clearly (to me, anyway) comes off as mockery and a hateful charicature of womanhood, and to couch these sort of events as “celebrating women” or comparing Dolly Parton (an ACTUAL woman, who intentionally created her look/character) to a drag queen feels like some remarkable journalistic spin for this early in the morning. I’m impressed.
YEP!! Glad to see the push-back here!!
This BS is being challenged at last!
Get mentally ill white men out of women’s spaces!!
Exactly – womanface is the height of hypocrisy.
This event is a literally a great example of how drag can also honor traditionally feminine roles in a playful and empowering way. I don’t see how you can post the above with a straight face.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are hosting ‘Witchin’ 4 the Kitchen Bingo,’ which is literally about helping a community space by raising funds to renovate a kitchen—a place historically associated with women’s roles in the home. Phrases like ‘Have you ever stood before a bubbling pot and longed to feel powerful?’ speak directly to empowerment in a traditionally female sphere.
Plus, the use of ‘crones’—not exactly a symbol of hypersexuality—shows that this event is about celebrating all kinds of femininity, including the wisdom and strength associated with older women. Far from being hypersexual, this event mixes humor and community service, highlighting that drag isn’t a one-note portrayal of women. It’s often about fun, empowerment, and giving back.”
I can’t believe you can say what you say with a straight face. Yeah- crones (and nuns) with giant boob’s, high heels and poses. Yeah that’s so multi note.
Okay, couple things here– Let’s not leave out the “Perpetual Indulgence” part of the Sisters’ moniker: this international philanthropic organization consciously chose to use/enhance the demeaning female costume of the largest and oldest organized crime family in the world, who minimalize the fate of women into two possibilities: serve “god”– really a codified male hierarchy– by marrying man and having children, or by marrying the “religion” and becoming a nun. I literally was taught that by a proud nun in religion class!! I was delighted when I first saw the Sisters– finally a group brave enough to theatrically epitomize the larger-than-life sanctimoniousness of god’s diminished (never allowed to serve at mass or become priests) and subservient handmaidens, while at the same time preserving the goodness of their best intentions. As a former volunteer for The Eureka Sisters, I can attest to the fact that every single one of them honors and respects women in words and actions. I believe that as a single, local group, they have raised more funds to serve women and children’s issues in Humboldt than any other. They wear white face make-up under a strict policy of remaining anonymous– their actions are to serve the needy in the community, not to take any individual credit for it. The Sisters’ dedication to fun and humor while fundraising is both refreshing and indicative of serving the higher calling of the experience of human joy.
Maybe the crone show is offensive precisely because it’s hypo sexual, not because it’s hypersexual…???
What’s not demeaning about objectifying, (or de-objectifying), old, ” “less” attractive, women…???
Precisely because it IS disrespectful…
You don’t see women of any age, (especially not real Sisters or Nuns), dressing up as dottering, toothless, broken down old, wrench toting men, do you…???
Would you also see that kind of “old man”mocking behavior as being, as you said about the crone show…
“It’s often about fun, empowerment, and giving back.”
I don’t think so…
It would also be about disrespectful mocking of the elderly…
And in my estimation, women are much more respectful than that…
Men, on the other hand, aren’t very respectful…
It’s not enough that these men are just mocking women, they have taken their disrespect to a whole different, worse level, by mocking elderly women…
Half in jest…
I’m not seeing women, or gay women, parading around in reverse crone drag, as greasy, decrepit, toothless old men in dirty denim coveralls, with horrible clogged, black facial pores, and blackened cuticles, calling out bingo numbers, just for the fun and games of it, at some School Bus Garage Fixer Upper fundraising event.
So I’m not buying any one sided assessment that it’s somehow cool either way…
😉😁
Not with a straight face, anyway…
Why has it become perfectly acceptable for men to mock old women, while it is still perfectly unacceptable for women to mock old men…???
Or do you think that a woman mocking an old man is now as perfectly normal and acceptable , as it is now normal and perfectly acceptable for a man to mock an old woman …???
Because I don’t see it as being that way…
Would you see them as being equally respectful, or being equally disrespectful…???
(I would pick the latter.)
Or do you, somehow, see an acceptable difference…???
Yes, it’s misogyny and hypocritical.
Shock macabre a la Kai is not the art of Tootsie, it’s gross. The Sisters … I used to like them, and I admire their indulgence to help the Women’s Club – but it seems like false pandering.
Interesting how none of the comments are about what this press release is promoting: raising funds for the renovation of the Women’s Club kitchen.
If it really matters to some folks who is donating all of their time AND proceeds, please, feel free to step up and put on your own show. I’m sure the Women’s Club would love your support, though some folks in the community may, and will, criticize you. Keep in mind the donated time is NOT just a few hours for the one evening. Every performer, musician, dancer, thespian, knows there are hours, days, weeks, months of rehearsals and preparation. That is all FREE time. Jeepers people, get off your high horse, or at least dismount from the opposite side, for once just to see what it’s like.
If folks really want to complain about something regarding the performing arts, how about how little, if at all, venues pay out to musicians and other performers. There are a lot of performers, (I can think of over a hundred musicians alone off the top of my head) in the area who are better at their art than most of us are at our careers. Many folks, and venues, will say, “you’re getting exposure to get other gigs.” BS!! What good is $50 from the North Country Fair for a 5-piece band if it gets you another $50 gig, or a 3-hour show paid in drinks?
There you go. There’s your rant. We used to say, “if you don’t like the show, turn the channel.” That was when there were three, maybe five, channels. If you don’t like this show, don’t go. Or do better, put on your own fundraiser. At the very least, drop a fiver into the donation box at the Women’s Club during off hours.
I am affiliated in no way with any entity mentioned in this press release. Thank you for your support.
You’re missing the point – it isn’t the purpose of the event but the choice of talent that’s under discussion. Or would you be ok with bringing back blackface minstrel shows if it’s for a good cause?
Blackface would be offensive, but whiteface, like on the advertisement, is somehow aok…???
You just reiterated MY point. It’s not the talent that should be under discussion, it’s the purpose of the event. This press release is about raising money for a new Women’s Club kitchen. If you or anyone else wants to donate their talents for the “purpose”, then by all means, do so. But so far, only one group has mmm… uh, stepped up, for free. For that, I applaud them.
Good to know you’d be ok with “Miss Hattie’s Deep South Minstrel Show” with white performers in blackface as long as it’s raising money for a good cause.
Are all the people who put on Darth Vadar masks mocking physically damaged people? are people who wear Pippi Longstocking wigs mocking people with red hair?
Please!
Let’s just agree to disagree if you can’t see or won’t admit or even consider the parallels between “blackface” and “womanface”.
Definitely don’t agree that “womanface” is meant to degrade or mock women.
The women of the Women’s Club, hosting this atrocity toward women, don’t seem to be offended. Perhaps you might consider marching right down there and telling them how blind they are for not recognizing this gender based mockery toward them despite the promise of a sizable donation. Then, while you are there, pitch your idea for your own show which mocks, offends, roll plays no one. I have complete confidence in you that such a show would be an absolute smash hit and sell out. But snap to it, time is running short for all your rehearsal and preparation in order to replace the currently scheduled Witch trial.