"Dram-king"

[Marc Velasco]

I've been under the impression that 'drama queen' referred to girls/women
(of any orientation) who tend to 'create drama' in their lives and in their
social circles, blowing things out of proportion, finding conspiracies and
intrigues against them at every corner, and are generally uncomfortable with
the calm, the mellow, or the chill.  At least that's how this datapoint has
always heard it.






On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I may be totally mistaken, here, but I've long been under the
> impression that the term, "drama-queen," referred to an openly-gay man
> who had a rather histrionic personality, such that he tended to freak
> out over small things that were of little moment, to people gay or
> straight, with less outgoing personalities.
>
> I've now begun to hear "drama-king" used as though "drama -queen" were
> a term applicable originally only to straight women.
>
> For example, it was used by his former girlfriend to describe  the
> same man who earlier claimed that, since he didn't "lhave a
> _beat-a-woman bone_ in [his] body," his apparently-threatening action
> was meant only "to _scare her up_ a bit" and not as a real physical
> threat
>
> -Wilson
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> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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