Episode 55: The Makeover Challenge aka RuPaul’s School for “Girls”

Alright Mary: All Things RuPaul's Drag Race

Colin Drucker & Johnny Also

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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Every season has one--whether it's jocks, dads or little women, the queens have been giving makeovers since the beginning. In Season 1, they were tasked with turning butch female fighters into femme drag daughters--the more "real," the better. (We disagree.) We discuss what it means to be a "real woman," Rebecca the strategist, drag as a pathway for gender identity and why Bebe won that lip sync. Plus: we move briefly into Season 2 territory to explore why Tyra really won her season, and if she could win future seasons.

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0:00.0	The All right, Mary.
0:15.0	Can I ask to something?
0:17.0	Has anybody actually ever mistaken you to be a full, like a real woman?
0:24.0	Yeah.
0:25.0	Yeah, yeah, it happens in the clock especially.
0:27.0	Oh, yeah.
0:28.0	All the time.
0:29.0	The fact is that I, babies are happening.
0:32.0	I do not leave my life as a woman, it's not my lifestyle.
0:35.6	Like when that happens, what do you do?
0:37.2	Do you tell them, like the truth?
0:39.2	Yeah, I tell them the truth.
0:40.4	I tell them that it's an illusion.
0:42.0	I have just developed a character and that's where people need to find that fine line so that when they look at us perform they don't necessarily think that oh they are dressed up like this because they want to live like this
0:55.2	no that is just such a misconception I don't go home like this I don't leave my life like
1:00.5	this unless you're cleaning the house, unless I'm playing the house.
1:04.0	So I think what's really interesting about this clip in the context of season one is it's the
1:09.7	other side of one of the running themes from the judges of looking feminine, you know, like
1:16.3	Nina gets us all the time of like, oh, you know, like the last episode, you know, you're
1:20.8	this gives away the boy, that gives way the boy like I'm not
1:23.7	seeing the girl I'm seeing boy and so there's such an emphasis this season on
1:27.4	making sure you look fishy and then it's really interesting to hear the
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