Canada Day
I spent the Canada Day weekend quietly -- like I do most Canada Day weekends. I visited some of the quiet spots of the city, stayed away from the noise, the alcohol and the crowds. I love my country, but I don't necessarily want to love it with alcohol and a crowd of drunks. I also don't care for fireworks, so I stay away from what is a late night ritual for many. On my travels this weekend, I encountered one jarring weirdness at Dundas Square, in downtown Toronto. The Chinese Community was celebrating Canada Day -- and I went I happened by, a little 7-year-old Michelle was placed on stage by proud parents to girate, grind, pout and act sexy, while she sang Britney Spears' Oops! ... I Did It Again and Baby One More Time.
It was bizarre. My wife and I seemed to be the only ones who found this disturbing. The announcer was none too happy to have the 7-year-old child prance around the stage, and the crowd -- the stupid, fucking crowd -- they cheered! WTF is wrong with you people!? She's a child. She doesn't know what she means when she sings, "You think that I'm sent from above, I'm not that innocent". Little Michelle was doing all the moves that Spears does to be a tramp in her videos -- but she didn't have the body, nor the knowledge of what it meant. There's one kid that's going to have mental problems before she reaches her teenage years.
It was bizarre. My wife and I seemed to be the only ones who found this disturbing. The announcer was none too happy to have the 7-year-old child prance around the stage, and the crowd -- the stupid, fucking crowd -- they cheered! WTF is wrong with you people!? She's a child. She doesn't know what she means when she sings, "You think that I'm sent from above, I'm not that innocent". Little Michelle was doing all the moves that Spears does to be a tramp in her videos -- but she didn't have the body, nor the knowledge of what it meant. There's one kid that's going to have mental problems before she reaches her teenage years.
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