PHILOSOPHICAL DRAG QUEEN CONTEST RESULTS!!!!: Your task: to come up with a nom de drag for a philosopher or theologian of note. EDITED TO ADD: Brad Gittern wants to know what the prizes are.

Close your eyes.

You’re lookin’ at ’em.

OK, eyes open, back to the contest. I will contribute three:

Ella Mental, a pre-Socratic.

Gloria Monday, a follower of the “indifference to this world” stance described here; as in, Sic transit Gloria Monday.

Genessee Quoi, a negative theologian. (OK, so I stole that one from the people here.)

Your contributions (and I really liked a lot of the honorable mentions, by the way): Third place: Fata Amore, a Nietzschean (Ray Eckhart)

Second place: Annette Hedonia, an ascetic (Although probably, he don’t! *ba-dum-bump!*) (Dave Tepper)

First place: Miss So There, an existentialist (M Bat)

Honorable mentions: Closeted Nietzschean, a Straussian; Murray Antoinette, a Burkean (Justin Zaremby)

Pam Opticon, a Foucauldian (Richmond Eustis)

Rhea Xiun, another Burkean (John Povejsil)

Zara Thustra, a Nietzschean; Rue St. Paul, an Augustinian (The Talking Dog)

Martine Boobaire, a fan of I and Thou ; Blaze Pascal (seven alarms!); and Emmanuelle Kant (Oh, Yes She Kan!) (Tenelux, who also notes that a drag philosopher of history might well be… a Vico in a tutu. Hmmmmm.)

Object D’Sartre; Spinoza Bottle (Brad Gittern)

Arthur Silber contributes dueling, good vs. evil queens, from an Objectivist perspective of course: Egoisma vs. Altrueval

Disputations weighs in, with a disclaimer: “First, we must insist on the fact that a Thomist drag queen is an oxymoron. A man is unfit matter for women’s clothing, to say nothing of the importance St. Thomas placed on signifying the truth.

“That said, a drag queen named Grace Purrfex (accent on the second syllable) might well be suspected of some training in, or at least acquaintance with, Scholastic thought.”

Dave Tepper offers Tommy Swerve, an Epicurean drag king. “(Referring to the “atomic swerve” that Epi believed was the basis of indeterminism and free will.)” Points for suggesting a drag king, points off for needing a footnote…

And a Special Achievement award goes to AgendaBender, of course, for this stellar post on Ayn Rand and drag aesthetic. I thought about handing the top prize to What is Objectivism?, but that seemed a little too… a little too Genessee Quoi, shall we say.

Many thanks to all who contributed!