So I went to drag con this past weekend (and I could write paragraphs on the experience alone, but that’s a rant for another time) and the first thing my friend and I did was attend the UNHhhh Live panel. Overall it was a special and amazing experience, but ONE THING, or should I say person, marred it.
This person decided it was a good idea to get up and read PORNOGRAPHIC fan fiction ABOUT Trixie and Katya OUT LOUD to Trixie and Katya. – AFTER THEY ASKED HER NOT TO! Trixie straight up said “no, please don’t.” and the bitch goes “Oh, just a few” and proceeds to take up 5 entire minutes (which doesn’t sound long, but trust me, it’s a lifetime when only 15 minutes are allotted for questions, others are waiting to ask theirs, and everyone in the room is uncomfortable) reading them DESPITE THE QUEENS’ EXPLICIT WISHES!
Let me be VERY clear here. I don’t care how well you THINK you know a queen because you’re a fan, you never, EVER have the right to put someone in that position. They were kind enough to humor her for one, but despite the fact that both queens and the captive audience were visibly uncomfortable, SHE WENT ON! Trixie had to FORCIBLY stop her mid sentence on her third (and most explicit) reading. It was truly awful. I later learned that Trixie’s boyfriend was also in the audience making the whole situation even more awkward and embarrassing.
I don’t know who this girl thought she was, how old she was, what possessed her to think this was a good idea, or why no one cares enough about her to stop her from doing this, but what she did to those queens is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. Please spread the word, tell your friends and neighbors, that NO MEANS NO, even in drag. Please remember that these queens are real people, they still reserve the right to a certain amount of privacy, and they still deserve your respect. DRAG DOES NOT NECESSARILY EQUAL CONSENT.
Thank you.
What the fuck? People should keep their ships and fanfics for themselves or fandom and not bring it out to people they seem to admire, especially after they told them to. Yeah, they made video about it and it was funny, but fans just shouldn’t do it
And that’s the thing, when they made that video it was just the two of them in a hotel room with a smartphone and they could stop reading or decide to not upload at any time, and once it was uploaded people could choose to click on it or not - they were in control of that situation as they chose to read something themselves and there was no one else in the room who had to listen if they weren’t okay with it.
There’s a big difference between that, and having to sit on a stage with around two hundred people staring at you while someone reads amatuer porn dialogue about you into a microphone with kids in the room, and won’t stop. What part of that do the ‘erotic’ celebrity fan fiction community not get? It really makes me wonder what these people’s understanding of consent is.
No matter how open and sexual a person or a character they play may be, their job or vocation, or how many rude or sexual jokes a person might make, that doesn’t mean they don’t have a right to refuse something or should have to expect to be treated with no boundaries wherever they go.
You guys enjoyed the longer Q and A this time? Well you won’t get another one if you keep doing this kind of crap.