How many times do you think Rupal Parekh from Ad Age has been called RuPaul? I asked her, 12,345 times. She started keeping track in her high school diary. It's not an exact count because when it started people would yell "Hey RuPaul, you look good in those lady clothes!" and Rupal would smile and compliment herself on her nice sense of style. Then her friends explained that they weren't saying "Rupal" they were calling her the name of the cross dressing male celebity. This bumbed her out a bit because she could have been wearing any kind of lady clothes, even if they were really ugly, and the kids would have said the same thing.
The bulk of the “jokes” came in the late nineties when RuPaul was at the height of his fame. It’s tapered off a bit since, but every once in a while, usually at one of the Ad Age conferences she runs, some associate creative director thinking he’s funny (it’s always a guy too, women acd’s don’t go for this old, obvious joke for some reason), he’ll say, “Hey RuPaul, you look good in those lady clothes.” Actually, Rupal does look good in lady clothes. It's when she goes with the Carhart painter pants and the NY Jets jersey that I have problems with. But thankfully she doesn’t do that very much.
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