Without googling anything, can you interpret what you are seeing here?
This is the mayor of Toronto.
The saddest part is that this is a woman who is pushing seventy, who has achieved an enviable position, who earns a large salary, who survived cancer. Yet she believes she has to prance around half-naked because even at the end of her seventh decade on Earth she can’t have any dignity.
This is simply sad.
What on earth is that, she looks like an aging Las Vegas showgirl on a bender. I don’t know if this is supposed to be funny or some sort of event or what, it’s undignified for a public official. I’m guessing this is some sort of First Nations event, Canadian liberals love to kiss their asses even though the First Nations tribes might be worse off than our Native Americans. They do nothing for these people except pander, and the natives eat it up
I feel horrible for this woman. 67 years old and has to demean herself like this. It’s embarrassing.
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Then that’s worse, it looks pandering and foolish. I didn’t realize it was a Caribbean festival, in a way that’s worse since she’s of Chinese descent dressed up as a stereotypical black Caribbean woman. This is embarrassing and pandering, if I were an Afro Canadian I would be embarrassed she’s my mayor
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It takes a while to figure out what she’s trying to perform because it looks so incongruous on her. I didn’t read it as Caribbean either.
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“I didn’t read it as Caribbean either”
My first thought wasn’t Caribbean but it definitely was “carnival” (it reminds me vaguely of a few places but none specifically) but it seemed very late in the year for that and the awkard stance and obvious discomfort were confusing.
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I found a funnier performance:
It’s undignified. Putting up a show for whom? Those costumes used to have cultural significance, now they’re just empty shells with some folkloric value attached.
What point is she trying to make?
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“What point is she trying to make?”
She’s embraced the neoliberal idea that people are interchangeable widgets and a politician should be a cultural cypher who cosplays to pander to the electorate.
You don’t have to have any language or culture or family connection to the caribbean it’s enough to put on a gaudy outfit and play act and the marks eat it up…
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“This is the mayor of Toronto”
Her face and last name suggest ‘Chinese’ and she looks very ill at ease….
No native group in Canada dressed anything remotely like this…
Looking it up, apparently it’s some kind of pan-caribbean carnival thing but held in the summer.
Weirdly, I’m thinking that a Hispanic woman (same age) dressed like this for a carnival event (at the right time) wouldn’t look so very out of place, at least partly because she’d have some self-aware humor about the situation and be able to keep some dignity (all lost in this case….).
Trudeau’s cosplay larping version of politics has a lot to answer for…
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That’s a great observation. This costume and the feeling behind it are completely culturally alien to this woman. And it looks pathetic. That she is incapable of noticing it is really sad.
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Yeah, but at that age, nobody should know whether you shave your bikini line or not. Or have any reason to speculate.
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Ten years earlier, Rob Ford was smoking crack with Somalis… Toronto mayors going the extra mile for multiculturalism?
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