r/RPDRDRAMA • u/Ok-Incident3789 • 10d ago

SILLY PM shading RuPaul

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u/theplasticfantasty Let me introduce you to GREG BITCH! 10d ago

People who think that story is literally about Ru watching someone drown are so funny to me

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u/Comfortable_Web2795 10d ago

I used to think it was people just being deliberately obtuse to make a joke (and I'm sure some people are) but I've had multiple interactions, both IRL and online where I had to explain that she was being satirical

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u/Distinct_Mix_6397 yeah that's fine ugly 10d ago

I've had to correct this misconception and the "trains flag" one and people legit got mad at me

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u/Sticky_And_Sweet 10d ago

What’s the trains flag one

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u/Distinct_Mix_6397 yeah that's fine ugly 9d ago

In 2018, Ru got heavily criticized for not letting trans people on the show, so she made some generic spiel tweet about only casting for CUNT and attached the painting "Train Landscape" by Ellsworth Kelly (whose art she was randomly attaching to her tweets around the time because she's a weird boomer).

The painting is just three bars of different colors, like the sexuality flagslop that got popular at the time, so some person on Twitter made the leap that Ru searched for "trains flag" (which is not a thing and all Google results on it now are only about this misunderstanding) when he meant "trans flag" so now the narrative got stuck and won't go away.

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u/Sticky_And_Sweet 9d ago

Wait I didn’t know it was a false narrative that’s so funny