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The Drew Carey Show
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For the longest time i thought Mimi was Drew in drag because I never saw pictures of them together. Once I saw them interacting in the series I was confused for a bit.
As you say, it wasn't.
The Carey who wore drag was Steve (until they dropped it in later seasons for no reason)
It's possible Drew did drag in an episode I don't recall at present, but he didn't even do drag in the Rocky Horror episode (content warning: donald trump is in that episode)
And they were surprisingly progressive about it, too. I don't remember exactly how the scene went down, but I remember it being more or less something like this:
And that was it except for a "telling the parents" episode, I believe.
I need to rewatch the series before "10-4"ing that (at the very least the fact that what should be a major part of someone's self conception was treated as a thing which could be dropped without issue or comment is troubling.)
Totally remember when Oswald got boobs though. That sort of thing plants some seeds, I tell ya. ("If you had a hand on your head we'd want to shake it.")
Drew's character also got civil union'd before anyone in his country could get gay married as I recall, but again I'll need to rewatch how that was handled prior commenting.
I do remember taking issue with some of the social structures reinforced in some of the show's humor, such as Drew looking up the definition of sexual harassment, " 'Any unwelcome sexual advance.'? that's every sexual advance I make!" I viewed that more as making light of sexual harassment than self-depreciation on Drew's part.
I don't personally care for Drew Carey—the sort of asshole who supports Ron Paul—and haven't since he told a joke in 2003, "My girlfriend's a Democrat; well... she hasn't actually come out as a Democrat but she's always bitching." despite allegedly being critical of the united states invasion of Iraq himself.
Some of the company he keeps I fuck with so heavily it's not like I'm calling on his canceling. He's just that friend you wish would be a better person (and stop voting for Garry Johnson).
I've been watching it again, I had the impression Steve stopped doing drag cause he married Mimi and whatever reasons came up from that.
Yeah, I think that might have been the implication, but they still should have addressed how first off that's a fucked thing to ask of someone and if they went that way they should have at least addressed how it was a very big deal for Steve to make that adjustment for her and not just dropped that aspect of the character in later seasons. In addition to questioning why Mimi had a problem with it.
It put out in the viewing audience how you can just request Queer people quit doing queer things and they can or should respond with "Okie!"` ^.^