Transcript
Kid Fury (0:04)
Happy day.
Crystal (0:24)
Welcome back to the show. And it is time now to read your letters.
Kid Fury (0:32)
So our first letter this week comes from Teen, who says, my name is Teen. And I, Stan RuPaul's Drag Race, Kornbread Angeria, and Willow Pill are giving me every part of my life this season. But I have a couple thoughts on Matty Morphosis. On one hand, I see how this straight man can open up a world for boys who don't necessarily fit a certain mold but have an interest. On the other hand, I feel like ballroom culture is a sacred world that was meant to be a safe haven for a community of people that had few other spaces to be themselves. But on the other hand, this could be like the time everybody but Jamaicans were upset with Adele for appropriating Jamaican culture. Because when I tell you, everybody was mad except Jamaicans.
Crystal (1:18)
Literally, I told y'all, like, literally, Jamaicans were the only ones that were like, I am Blair. I am blessed every day of my life. Like, Jamaicans didn't care.
Kid Fury (1:35)
Black Americans was up in arms and Jamaica's was like, calm pants. Anyway, Teen said, I said all that to say I would love to hear what you two think about Matty Morphosis. Not asking you to speak for the entire community, obviously, but just as two individuals who enjoy Drag Race. Thanks, team.
Crystal (1:57)
I love this question. Thank you so much for asking.
Kid Fury (2:01)
Yes, thank you, too.
Crystal (2:03)
I personally. Okay, like, I almost brought this up in the read, too. To me, okay, it's not RuPaul's ballroom culture race. You know, it's a show about fucking cross dressers. And so, like, who can. I don't. To me, first of all, this is no shade to Mattie Morphous. I haven't seen enough of her drag yet to give, like, a proper summarization of how I feel in terms of what she gives. But I feel like so far, Matty Morphosis is a checkbox. It feels like ever since the show got well deserved criticism for some of the people identities that were lacking in their cast, the trans girls, they've been specifically, they've been more like, hey, guys, look at this person. You know what I mean? And so, like, we know we talked about way back when when RuPaul said whatever dumb shit about trans women, why trans women weren't on RuPaul's Drag Race. Now she didn't see it for them and blah, blah, blah, and got read to filth for it. And then, you know, she had Gia Gunn on the show, which was like a soft way to introduce Trans. The trans identity. Because Gia had already been on the show, et cetera. And, you know, then we got Gottmik. Now we have Kornbread, and we have Kerri Colby, and we've had, you know, more. More people of the trans identity and experience. We've been on the show since then. And I feel similarly to Maddy. It feels like Maddie was a way to be. For them to be like, look, we got someone on the show that's straight. Cause it's like the least interesting thing about the bitch, like, in terms of being a drag queen. Because straight men who do drag is not nearly new, revolutionary, innovative. Maybe it's new or gag worthy to a lot of you whose only real understanding or realm in terms of the world of drag exists in drag race alone. But men who identify as straight have been dressing in drag or cross dressing or whatever forever and ever. And some of them have done it professionally for a while. So to me, when I saw Maddie and I'm like, oh, this person's straight. I'm like, okay, I hope the bitch turns it, because there are straight drag queens that deliver.