She entered - no, make that strutted - into the room with purpose, swaying her hips, intently aware of the beaming spotlight that followed her as she sauntered about the dance floor while flawlessly lip-synching "Toxic" by Britney Spears. Scantily clad in nothing but a tiny, black tube-top and matching leather skirt, Miss Fonda Cox tossed her long, strawberry-blonde locks and zeroed in on an unsuspecting gentlemen at the bar. She teasingly licked her lips and started caressing the man's hair. He seemed unsure of what to do or say to this Amazonian woman standing before him, and the crowd laughed uproariously in response. Miss Cox never lost her place in the song.
This was a drag show, and the lip-synching, wig-wearing diva who strutted around in stilettos was 26 year old Scott Meadows in his element. Scott has been entertaining and shocking crowds along with several other drag queens every Friday night at The Paddock Club in Greenville, NC for the past five years. I ventured into this particular place with some of my friends after reading an e-mail that had been sent to the Theatre Department call-board. This e-mail was a special invitation for all ECU students of Theatre, Music, and Dance who had shown The Paddock tons of support over the past several years. Apparently, this club was going to be closing its doors after serving the community for more than thirty years and Saturday, January 31st the final show and farewell bash was to be held. The crowd who gathered around me that night was raucous and lively - perhaps from the liquor, or maybe it was from the contagious energy Miss Cox seemed to emenate. .
As the music faded out, Fonda slipped away back stage and shortly reappeared with microphone in hand. She appraised the crowd, and soon began cracking jokes about certain people standing out in the audience. Her first victim was a rather plump woman who was standing with a group of her friends.
Science Essay: Is cadium a gender bender? This article on cadium being a gender bender raises some very interesting arguments. The studies that have found the metal cadium to be a gender bender are surprising as cadium is the first metal that has been found to mimic the female hormone oestrogen. ...
Kyla Bender-Baird's book, "Transgender Employment Experiences: Gender Perceptions and the Law," is an insightful compilation of the transgender community's employment life and experiences with critical analysis on the politics behind bylaws governing gender rights and its implications in the real world. ... Bender-Baird's writing aims to expose these gender injustices to the public eye and hopes that in due time, would reach a meaningful concurrence for political officials to consider. ... The participants whom Bender-Baird interviewed were predominantly Caucasians, if not ...
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In both their essays, Lois Gould and Bernice Kanner address these gender oriented issues from the point of view of a male and female, for whom gender heightens the distortion and its consequences. ... In Bernice Kanner's piece a totally different approach was taken in order to spread awareness on the issue of gender. ... The gender of X does not matter to the other children, but because X liked dolls and wore overalls the parents cared. ... In Gould's article she claims that gender bending is over dramatized and that people should not place too much value on what the sexes ca...
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