We don’t stop progress, as we say among the “open-minded”.
The Santa Claus parade in the streets of Montreal on November 19 just eliminated the star fairy so feminine, so friendly, so demure and so sociable, to sweep her through Barbada, Quebec’s drag queen of the hour substitute.
This spectacular female caricature is the pure product of the imagination of supposedly emancipated men who, however, produce the most banal clichés of the female body. With an excessively made-up face, a dress with a low neckline, false nails with painted claws and a voice with hysterical tones, this transformation of the artist is clearly very trendy.
This Barbada, née Sébastien Potvin, has real multi-talents, of which she benefits the youngest children, enchanting and intriguing by telling them stories in libraries and public day care centers in Quebec.
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Drag queen haters aside, as Barbada describes its detractors, Quebecers are known to be willing to take anything.
At the next televised parade, Quebec kids can say goodbye to the Star Fairy, that old thing from the days of triumphant patriarchy. Leave this heterosexual nunuche, Santa’s assistant, whose evil adult tongues whispered that she would give the old man small treats thanks to his magic wand.
And also ended the stereotypical fairy reassuring little ones scared by Santa Claus.
With this ideology of inclusion and diversity, we shouldn’t be surprised if in a few years we’ll see a slimmer, girlier Santa Claus, and who knows, maybe in a faux-fur swimsuit, obviously where he’s sitting in an allegorical float playing the role of the Star Fairy is reserved for the man.
Of course, progressive LGBTQ feminism has a future ahead of it.
