Prof O’Malley discussed today how, throughout history, humans have been obsessed with boundary transgressing animals. I almost immediately thought of RuPaul’s Drag Race. RuPaul hosts a T.V. show where drag queens compete. It’s an incredibly popular show for the exact same reason O’Malley said we like carnivals.

While drag is becoming more normal and being portrayed incredibly positively in the media, it still is boundary transgressing and therefore, arguably, weird. Men dressing as over exaggerated forms of women is not “normal.” In class, we discussed how people love carnivals because its so weird, it’s everything that shouldn’t be in one place. Bearded women, incredibly flexible people, people jumping from incredible heights; not everyday things. People eat this kind of stuff up and that’s why RuPaul’s Drag Race is so popular, people like to see things that they wouldn’t consider normal.