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Ahhh 😂😂😂 punning!!!

As I skip across the Intertubez looking for posts on my favorite show on the telly:RuPaul's Drag Race I am dismayed by all the Raven hatred.  Are we watching the same show, I often wonder?  What is there to hate about a polished, well-put together, versatile, bitchy queen?  Its not like she's not displaying all the requisite ingredients of charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent.  It's not as if she is the only queen dishing it.  So what's with all the hate?

Let's be honest, gals, Raven isn't saying anything that we haven't all at one point thought. Let's recap, shall we?

Mystique: Raven called her out on kuntry bullshit.  No one--not even Tati-- believed that Mystique was wearing that tired outfit so that she wouldn't have her fans thinking she was making fun of "kuntry".  Pandora made the correct observation that for her to say that she ought not be doing drag at all for fear that women would feel they were making fun of them.  Raven was just more blunt than the diplomatic Pandybear.  Everyone knew that Mystique's curtain outfit was a hot mess.  Girl didn't even hem the damn thing.  Maybe she didn't have the right sized equipment, but she still could have put a little effort into hemming it.  Shangela for never having sewed before put together something (hemmed) and nice.

Nicole Paige Brookes: Raven was a bit peevish about all the overtures.  Let's face it.  It is a competition with money on the line.  Nicole Paige Brooks from Atlanta, Georgia should have had her head in the game, not try to game her head.

Tatiana: Raven is constantly riding Tati, but let's look at why.  1) Her BFF, Morgan, went home before Tati.  This wouldn't sit with most of us, watching our best girl go home while some newb to the drag world makes it past all the critiques because of that face she was born with, not the face she put on using cosmetics. Morgan spent years perfecting her craft and rode out before someone who had only done 7 shows total.  OUCH!  2). Britney Spears.  While funny, it was like shooting fish in a barrel.  Tell me someone who couldn't make Britney Spears seem funny and I'll show you Nicole Paige Brooks--just kidding.  Pandora Boxx won that challenge.  She had both the funniest shizz in the Gameshow portion ("...a lovely bunch of coconuts") and her runway was tighter than Tati's.  Raven was straight up right when she said Pandy should have won that week.  3) Rock and Roll!  Did Tati even make a costume?  Looks like she pulled out shit she brought in from Hot Topic.  Meanwhile every other queen in the building is sewing away on these elaborate costumes that they needn't have bothered with since Tati wove that real-girl "realness" spell on Santino's loins.  Watching everyone else get critiqued for their fashion and a girl in a wife beater and leggings get props had to hurt.  4) The Book.  Tati had the worst book cover, a crap interview that didn't include the drink, was unfunny, and barely talked to the book, and a HIDEOUS look for the runway and somehow she squeaks by and Jessica Wild (my favorite) walks off after the most entertaining interview I've ever watched in my life....I would have been pee-issed, too.  5) Golden Girls and the Ultimate Betrayal--the sending home of Pandora Boxx.  Tati got first pick and chose the guy with the best bone structure.  He ended up looking hideous.  My child could do a better makeup job.  The outfits looked like Mystique made them, and she stays.  Pandora's routine was adorable, the outfits were a spoof of herself, and her mom was cute as a bug's ear...and she has to Sashay away.  What the feeble??!!??  Why shouldn't Raven preach it?  The way Tatiana skimmed past all obstacles while more talented, seasoned queens went home would have smushed my noodle, too--especially if that was my career, if I was stuck in close working quarters, and had to witness it all up close.

So, yes, while Raven seems a bitch...I understand. 

Maybe she's bitchy...okay, okay.  She's bitchy.  But so's Juju.  She's just cuter about it.  Juju is bitchy in the company of others while Raven takes hers mostly to the confessional--so which is worse? Instigating others into a bitch session or grumbling to yourself in a tiny room with a camera.

If we are all honest, the only two queens on that show that didn't talk about people behind their backs were Tyra and Jessica Wild.  Tyra because she said it all to the person and Jessica because she is cotton candy covered with powdered sugar and Jesus dust.