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Morning Brew: Toronto strip clubs get less touchy, Rob Ford has gravy issues, Ombudsman reappointed, Tyler Bozak Halloween costume controversy
NO TOUCHING! Strip clubs in TO just got a little less Tijuana. Ok, guys — time to work on your OKCupid profile and try a little harder. You'll feel better for it. Really.
In other rippers news, Zanzibar got some G20 compensation. The classiest joint on lower Yonge was awarded $5,886 in compensation for summit-based losses, which represents about half of what ownership was looking for. Insert some half-clever, probably inappropriate joke here.
Oh, Rob. There's gravy and there's 1982-Pétrus-spiked gravy. This would be the latter. And you don't even know what that means.
The quotation of the day — don't say "quote;" that's a verb, guys — comes courtesy of one of my old favourites, Giorgio Mammoliti. On why he voted against reappointing Integrity Commissioner Fiona Crean to a second term: "It's becoming political, and for that reason I don't think she should be reappointed." Well done, my flagpole-loving friend. Let this be a lesson on how to say nothing and still move your lips. Rationality did, however, prevail.
Ok, so this is one is worth discussion. Toronto Maple Leaf Tyler Bozak — he of the pretty face and the corner-free hockey play — is in some hot water for his Halloween costume this year. There's a long and troubled history here, but one wonders if this particular dress-up participates in that history at all. Is MJ just MJ or something more troubled?
About 700 Toronto homes are still without power post-Sandy. Of the roughly 60,000 Ontario residences who lost power on account of the storm, only 1 per cent are yet to be able to use their electric can openers.
Speaking of the G20, filmmaker Adam Letalik has released the final cut of his film about the events on that notorious June weekend. Check it out below.
Photo by Bicycle Tom in the blogTO Flickr pool
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Of course, there will always be entitled assholes who think that women's bodies, and the bodies of those working in the adult entertainment industry, are theirs to touch as they please, regardless of consent or legality.
Protip: don't touch someone who doesn't want to be touched. It's a dick move. Assuming someone wants to be touched because of their profession is likewise a dick move. Keep your hands to yourself.
'Quote' as a noun is well-established usage (unless you consider the late 19th century to be too recent, but then its ultimate origin in Latin lies neither in a verb nor in a noun).
Regarding Bozak, he should have known there are killjoys and professional race-baiters who have no sense of humour or perspective.
So I guess in return no black person can ever dress up as a white person. Fair is fair.
Had Bozak dressed up as a black slave there might be a problem. Dressing up as a black celebrity is not unless you are looking to be offended.
As for white people walking on eggshells, really? You think that's a problem? I suspect the only white people walking on eggshells are those who've never managed to actually have friends of other races, and as a result get uncomfortable around "others". Trust me, if you have any black friends, you're not walking on eggshells - you know why? Because you'd know that we're all our own people and just because one black person might be offended about something doesn't mean we all are. We're not some monolithic group who think and act in an identical manner - we're no different than "white" people that way.
Quite frankly, its the meda propensity to treat any ethnic group as a monolithic entity with one mind and voice that leads to all this nonsense where it is assumed that people are offended by everythng and anything. Its ridiculous.
Until the media turned it into a "story", it was nothing more than a typical Twitter piss-off. And just so you know, there are plenty of white people out there who express their liberal guilt by being offended about things, presumptively on behalf of black folks, so please, don't assume its black people making you walk on eggshells on racial matters.
You're right, in the sense that not everyone will get offended by something like Bozak's costume, but my personal experiences throughout life, living in this multicultural city for the entirety of it, is that people absolutely love showing outrage and offense when it comes to race-related matters. This city is tribal, divided, and xenophobic-- towards everyone.
Interestingly, no mention of the Raptors home opener?
And, as one person here said at BlogTO a while ago, we need term limits for city councilors.