Does RuPaul’s Drag Race have an ageism problem?

In the most recent episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 17, this year’s new crop of queens began playfully referring to the cast’s oldest member, Louisville’s Lexi Love, as a “grandma”. During filming, she was 33.

As I dabbed away the tears from my wrinkled and sagging almost-30-year-old face, I began to question: is it me? Am I the grandma? I don’t think I’m the grandma. Maybe I am?

In all seriousness, the Drag Race girls aren’t serious. As one Gemma Collins might say, “It was a bit of a laugh. It’s tongue-in-cheek, Danielle. It’s funny!” That might be true, but it does open the door to a bigger, suppler, more collagen-rich question: does Drag Race have an age problem?

The most obvious evidence points to no, of course not,

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