----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > The feeling on leaving the theatre was that there were no easy answers. > The film made no statement about political correctness, about how it was >(1) Is it appropriate to discuss drag queens vis-a-vis political >correctness? It seems to me that camp sidesteps such questions by >completely inhabiting them; that is, to say that PRISCILLA avoids the >p.c. issue is like saying that a Tom Clancy novel doesn't promote >capitalist ideology. OK, try this - Priscilla doesn't advocate queer politics directly. It displays the characters in a human context, and by doing so the audience is subtly urged to accept queers as normal - rather than try and create a seperate space and vocabulary and gnawing at anyone who "appropriates" the space and vocabulary. >(2) Is the term "P.C." here being used in its earlier, queer/lesbian >context, or its appropriated right-wing context? It is being used in *my* context/ How's that for appropriation? And are you absolutely certain you didn't leave out any other versions of "politically correct" that others have appropriated. If you ask me, The elaboration of question #2 is silly. >(3) And certainly the portrait of Pilipina women was not politically >correct under any definition. No - but remember that I said the nice thing about Priscilla is that it isn't P.C. The woman is psychotic. J Roberson