"Dram-king"

[Bradley A. Esparza]

I play on a gay identified rugby team and we have referred to upset straight
players as drama kings.

Bradley A. Esparza

"You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." Dorothy
Parker, when asked to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence.


On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

> Could this be gender-specific rather than sex-specific? I can
> certainly imagine a heterosexual male being called a drama queen if he
> has a fit in an effeminate manner. Here, the fit perhaps is masculine,
> so "king" is applied. BB
>
> On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
>
>> 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
>>
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