I don’t have a lot of patriotism for Australia, and there’s not a lot to be proud about imho, but this conversation, and seeing our unfiltered passion for profanity on the world stage did manage to make me feel weirdly proud. And the more I watched, the more I realised that a lot of the joy of
Drag Race Down Under messy, campy, fun– was expressed precisely through that love of swearing.
But I also had to wonder what the rest of the world would think of it? The Australian and New Zealand accents are already thick enough that I imagine the US will have trouble with them (which reportedly was the case with the Scottish queens in