(Continued) Antikainen previously competed in the 2020 Juna Cup in a performance titled "Geisha," during which he painted his face white, dressed in kimono, and skated to traditional Japanese music. pic.twitter.com/N51YQIKJAF
maddog1129, I’m genuinely shocked to learn that there’s a Finn who skates that badly. I thought everyone in Finland was pretty much born on skates.
Rob
Putting aside the quality of the skating and the trans/cross dressing thing, the Geisha thing is cultural appropriation and offensive at that. If you’re going to appropriate someones culture, it should be done in a way that honours and respects it, even if taking it someplace new. A guy dressed in a thigh exposing Geisha-like outfit while doing something badly does not fit the bill at all.
Holms
It seems once a person can appropriate a sex without anyone objecting, they can appropriate anything.
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He is terrible. He can’t skate.
maddog1129, I’m genuinely shocked to learn that there’s a Finn who skates that badly. I thought everyone in Finland was pretty much born on skates.
Putting aside the quality of the skating and the trans/cross dressing thing, the Geisha thing is cultural appropriation and offensive at that. If you’re going to appropriate someones culture, it should be done in a way that honours and respects it, even if taking it someplace new. A guy dressed in a thigh exposing Geisha-like outfit while doing something badly does not fit the bill at all.
It seems once a person can appropriate a sex without anyone objecting, they can appropriate anything.