Thursday, April 17, 2014

RuPaul is Shaking Things Up!

Most of the time when it comes to background dancers it usually the females that get over sexualized more than the males. Well thanks to well-known drag queen RuPaul is starting to change that with their new music video Geronimo. This video features RuPaul herself and said to be twerk champion Julian Serrano; during the video the camera going back forth to solo shots of RuPaul singing and dancing some and Julian dancing and mostly twerking with either a full back body view or close up to his behind. This video finally gives girls a chance to take a break and act like men do when they see girls twerk (with I believe Julian does better than most girls anyway). But even though this video is one of the rare examples of male backup dancers being overly sexualized; it did not get really any negative feedback like music videos where female backup dancers are sexualized. Which seems unfair and sort of relates to its ok if a man does it but it’s shameful and disgusting if a woman does it.

Some of the comments on the video:

 "Note to Miley Cyrus: THIS IS HOW YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO TWERK"

"I used to be disgusted by guys that loved watching girls twerk, but then I saw a man twerk and Lawd... _ I have seen the light. I live, hunty! I live!"

"I am tired of people just seeing us men as meat ;O. Lol."


Sarah R.

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