<em>AJ and the Queen</em> Says Drag Will Make America Okay Again
On a TV in an RV, Oprah speaks. “You have to start with beginning to love yourself,” she says. “You hear a lot of that in the ’80s. And what does that mean?”
Oprah’s guru guest, a feathered blonde in a blazer, replies that it means that you should stop beating up on yourself. “When you begin to love who you are, then you can love your neighbor, because you love yourself,” the woman says. “See, I don’t think we can really love our neighbor until we do love ourselves.”
This vintage talk-show spiel is being absorbed in the present day by Ruby. In real life, the actor who plays that drag queen, RuPaul, has evangelized a very similar doctrine —as well as the . RuPaul may, in fact, be revealing the origin of the catchphrase that ends every episode of his smash reality series : “If you can’t love yourself, how the hell are you gonna love somebody else?”
