Hmmm, I didn't find the Slate article to be very revealing about the (previously unbenownst to me) drag king culture ... but I did love this quote from the gal who was experimenting with it for the purpose of writing the article:
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Originally Posted by Johnson Manly
In the 20th lecture in A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud writes, "Of little girls we know that they feel themselves heavily handicapped by the absence of a large visible penis and envy the boy's possession of it; from this source primarily springs the wish to be a man. …" I don't want to say the much-maligned Herr Doktor was right, but there was something revelatory about walking around with this cotton appendage. I suddenly felt I wasn't alone in the world. I now had a secret friend nestled by my leg, giving me strength and encouragement.
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