Hating on Kim for not excelling in her weakest area?
Yes, because in a competition, at this point all the people with "weak areas" should have been weeded out. Just like they sent the far more impressive Acid Betty home for fucking up one challenge, Lil Kim shouldn't have made it this far.
Your compulsive nastiness is really tiresome at times.
You'll survive.
Especially when you don't even pretend to care about a fair accounting of the facts. Everyone knows Kim is a look queen. That's her area of expertise and she's great at it, so why zero in on her obvious lack of physical grace like all of her other qualities are worthless?
Because this is a competition. If someone has GLARING faults she shouldn't be where she is. The conceit of this show is that you need to have Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve AND TALENT, someone skating by on the strength of her paint is ludicrous. And I'm tired of every queen with a sad tale and some crocodile tears getting a pass every season. (mind you, those very same tears did squat for Trinity K. Bonet) I don't feel sympathy for a sad tale because we all got em, she's not special or unique.
Why does she have to be a brilliant performer when she's more than brilliant enough in another area? You could tear any queen in Drag Race history to shreds if you decided to judge them solely by their shortcomings.
She needs to be a brilliant performer because they have challenges based on performing. If it was a fierce paint competition, then by all means top 3 for her all day. She still wouldn't have beaten Acid Betty. I don't see why I'm being too harsh on her based on the premise of the show.
Wayward thoughts:
- Kim Chi has never been in the bottom two for reasons beyond her performance on the show. They've protected her this entire time, and even though her drag is editorial and impressive, not being able to do basic drag 101 things like being a versatile performer or walking in heels would have sent her packing real quick in earlier seasons.
Yup.
- The show seems to have evolved from rewarding queens who are versatile and multi-faceted to keeping queens who have "that one thing," other flaws be damned.
And where are they now? Every queen that had that "one thing" basically disappeared after the show. And the queens that held true to the spirit of drag are all over the place. Everyone has these lofty ideas about "evolving drag" but i'm not sure who they think is gonna spend coins to see these drag orchestras, or go down to the club and look at Lil Kims fierce paint.
Jinkx Monsoon began that trend and I remember so many people being upset that she lasted to the end despite some glaring flaws. At the end of the day the queens who show themselves trying, and have captivating personalities, are the ones who win this show.
And thats the thing, these people aren't winning because of drag, they're winning because its TV. Because these tumblrinas and tweeties have no access to drag outside of the internet, they don't know the realities of drag and what it takes to make it in the real world. Sitting around in fierce paint and a quirky personality ain't it. All the queens that are all over the place after the show have the same thing in common, they lived and breathed drag.
- That director was literally yelling "yaaaas omg" at Kim Chi's take and all she was doing was crossing a hand over her face. Rigged af. lol
Ugh.
Even if Kim wins on social media, they wouldn't dare not crown the queen with the most wins.
Ever since the internet got in Ru's ass for having 2 black queens (I think "Ru Clones" was the preferred nomenclature) win in a row she's been going out of her way to make sure to choose the most popular over the most talented.
Pearl was super popular among fans last year but Violet still won.
I think Pearl was only popular because he was hot out of drag. He was fairly mediocre in it.
Bob is still wildly popular on social media. I have seen way more BOb videos and gifs on Tumblr for example. Most of the Kim posts I see are pre- and post-Drag Race photo shoots and conceptual looks she's done.
Bob is super quoteable and I think she's the first queen I've seen interact with the crew on the show. I'm sure other queens have, but they've gone out of their way to show her interact with them and its been fairly endearing. I think I even saw one of the ladies going to the Met Gala yesterday going "purse first."
