I have a theory that you can really tell how a man feels about women when he dresses as one. [View all]

Perhaps this holds true with the genders reversed, though it is a less common trope in entertainment.

Just to establish my bona fides, I am a straight, cis female and I accept that people have differing sexual orientations and gender identities.

The theory mentioned above came into my mind decades ago while watching Monty Python. I just had a gut feeling that those men had an innate sympathy for the women they were portraying. In contrast, equally decades ago there was a player on Saturday Night Live who often performed in drag and something in his manner cut into me. I really got the feeling that he did not like women.

He also had a Gay affect, though he would not have been out publicly at the time-- and no, I don't believe for a second that Gay men in general hate women.

The reason that I'm bringing this up is that I was over at another website called, "Cracked" and images of that past SNL player came up in a small thumbnail on the screen. A quick glance at his face gave me that same unnerved feeling that I had all those years ago when I watched him perform and I had no desire to click on that thumbnail and go down that rabbit hole.

Do any other old-timers remember the SNL cast member that I'm writing about? And what do you think of my theory? Furthermore, how do you suppose it relates to the current moral panic over drag shows?