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DOES CARNIVAL HAVE TO BE VULGAR?
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By……Audley Phillip
This is not a very popular story, but voices continue to be raised across the land about the perceived increase in vulgarity, profanity and indecency in our carnival.
Long time ago, carnival was solely about creative expression displayed in the calypso, mas, costumes and outfit and the steel bands.
If you go back to the origins of carnival, it was about the gaining of freedom by the slaves and the desire to make a statement about it.
Today, mas seems to be a revelation of “wonderfully endowed women” who are sparsely dressed and doing all the “wine” that you can ever imagine on the roads.
The presence of live television and the hundreds of social media enthusiasts with phones and cameras ensures that live coverage of the events are given and this has provided a platform for the woman in the mas to display their “goods” even on Prime Time Television.
Over the years the churches have screamed against the exposure and the conduct of the revelers, but to no avail.
There are those who blamed the TV station for continously pointing their cameras on the women.
Bandleaders have said that the revelers have demanded skimpy outfits in order to heighten their enjoyment and they have no choice but to satisfy their demands.
One thing is certain about carnival today. The less clothing worn seem to have become the norm which has made the festival less of a safe family outing and a protected and healthy place for children due to the bareness and nudism that is on full display.
It is a far cry from the carnival of old. Then again, I must be from the ancient era where there was an acceptable standards of dress even in carnival costumes and those that are participating.
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Very well put together I ENDOSE THIS EDITORIAL 100%
We need to bring back the culture to our Carnival. ABS posted a video from 1990 of the kids parade and it was such a breath of fresh air and a fun moment in time.
I pray we get back there and stop with the demoralizing vulgarity and promiscuity we are seeing parading now. Worse off you starting your kids off early being apart of that.
Come on Antigua.
Pure nastiness
To each is own! Carnival time – people vulgar in the streets
Church time – they vulgar in secret
Leave people alone and change your ugly 1 picture.
100% agree.
DUH! Dumb! Dumb! It’s a stupid question. The etymology of the word, the origins of the festivals which have highjacked the original freedom, emancipation celebrations is just that CARNALITY, VULGARITY, SEXUALITY, GLUTTONY, MAYHEM, DRUNKARDNESS. What the hell do you expect will be presented?
The sad part, are women who defend those dress with a sword and shield, are women who fight to be like this and be accepted like this, are women fighting for the “right” to do wherever they want and “No men needed to survive”. Are women who are building a trend that future is No family. They rise a girl to be a single women, Those loudly movement around the world is to create women to be single, no commitment to create a family, children is a stone in their way to be “Successfully”. Just grab a pet and live alone.
Are women who fight to have constant attention, that is why the huge trend of Almost naked pictures on social media post, just looking how many likes and “good” comment they can get. But anyway..is wat they want, and they will pay the price in long run.
WHAT THE HELL…! …SPIRIT OF CARNIVAL…? …REAL BACCHANAL…?
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TOP OF THE MORNING, MY ‘…ESTEEMED FRIEND.’
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THEN AND NOW: …MODESTY AND VULGARITY
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VERY INTERESTING RATIONALIZED THOUGHTS.
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MODESTY AND MORALITY:
BACK ‘…THEN,’ IT MAY HAVE BEEN ABOUT ‘…MODESTY AND MORALITY.’
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NOW, IT APPEARS TO BE ABOUT ‘…REVELRY AND ‘…CULTURAL VULGARITY.’
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WELL:
ACCORDING TO THE ‘…MIGHTY SPARROW:
(i) ‘…I AINT NO PRIEST: and
(ii) …I AINT NO NUN,’ and
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BEING THOUGHT-PROVOKING:
AS THIS COMMENTER, ‘…AINT NO JUDGE OF MORALS,’ IF THAT IS WHAT CARNIVAL: has
(a) ‘…BEEN SO TRANSFORMED: and
(b) …SOCIETY SO ACCEPTS AND PARTICIPATES: that
(c) …CARNIVAL FUN IS TO BE EXPRESSIVE, BUT VIOLENCE-FREE: and
(d) …CAMERAMEN FOCUSING ON REVELLERS- HIM/HER AND ‘SHEHE: then
(d) …WHETHER OR NOT COSTUMES ARE ‘…SKIMPY’ OR NOT ‘…SKIMPY:’ and
(e) …THE MUSIC IS ‘…SWEET AND JUMPY: then
(f) …FOR CARNIVAL, SO IT SHALL BE.’
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WHAT THE HELL…!
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AT HOME AND IN THE DIASPORA, MANY SEE IT AS ‘…THE SPIRIT OF CARNIVAL.’
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TAKE OUT THE ‘…SPIRIT,’ AND IT IS THE END OF CARNIVAL>
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THEN IT WILL BE ‘…REAL BACCHANAL.’
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NOW:
TO THOSE WHO DO NOT WISH TO SEE ‘…CARNIVAL:
(a) ‘…TURN OFF THE TELEVISION: or
(b) …WATCH THE WRESTLING OF ‘…HULK HOGAN.’
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I agree!! For the sake of describing the author/writer: I’m a “well endowed beautiful” and sexy woman, plus I’m single!! And even I avoid Carnival and my daughters (being raised right) have 0 desire to see young and old women behave a fool while they let men act like “DOGS” behind them. Bring back the culture to most days and Bacchannal for one day at like the stadium, away from town where like mine can gather, away from those who do not care to see it!!
DO WHAT YOU WANT ON MONDAY…
NOBODY WILL SAY ANYTHING.
All this must come to pass.
To attempt to stop or prevent this is trying to stop prophecy or act against what God said will happen.
Jesus will soon come for his people, those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith in him.
What is to be must be, stop try fight against the will of the people and the system Audley, the system is designed to please the people just enough to keep them indebted to it, what I call locked and trapped in the chains of Babylon.
Oh my God! I know TShirt Mas started in Dominica and to this Day it’s about Design T shirts of all color and style worn with a jeans or Short pants.This Vulgar Celebration Should be name Bathsuit/Naked Mas.Why would Mothers, Daughters,Wives,Girlfriends,Bank Teller,Receptionist Ect. Parade on Streets in some distasteful Manner.Women laying on the Ground,Ass in the Air gyrating while someone is slapping on her Buttox.Those in Authority should set the Standard and dress code for these kind of activities. The police should have the authority to arrest these individuals for these Nasty and dirty behavior.Where is the pride in oneself..Come on ladies.Men are decently Dress so why can’t women be.
@RAWLSTON POMPEY what foolishness are you writing? It’s bad enough your writings are barely comprehensible according to many who read or attempt to read them logically. However to find ways to justify this scourge as culture tells me exactly why fu**ing penis and pussy in public and is the new norm for the Emancipation celebrations. Not even red light districts which tolerate prostitution allows f**king in public. It’s a LIVE STRIP SHOW on the streets!
Does Carnival have to be vulgar? Audley, you might well have asked, “Does the Pope have to be Catholic?”
Carni-val: carni=meat/flesh; val, suffix of festival. Carnival=festival of the flesh.
The extreme nudity and debauchery are essential to the celebrations, as are the revelry and bacchanal. The Roman god, Bacchus, was the god of wine, therefore drunkeness and mind-altering drugs are a hallmark of bacchanal.
Given these salient truths, what else do you expect?
Wake up, friend.
I’m a woman and I play Mas, and I don’t think the skimpy outfits are at all necessary as they speak nothing about “EMANCIPATION”, which is what we should be celebrating. But it’s more the behavior that I have a problem with. No need to repeat what the author said but children and teens alike are getting a good dose of “ANYTHING GOES” in these Antiguan streets, and one wonders what the future will be like for them! We create our future and I guess we are creating exactly what we want!
Bahamian Junkanoo draws tourists from all over the globe but you don’t see the mas players wearing skimpy clothes or dancing in a lewd manner. We could pull a page out of their book.
Is Carnival Vulgar, or current Lifestyle trends promote VULGARITY? 🤔 Skimpy Outfits, Pant Sagging – over undergarment exposure, blatant public disrespect, public substance abuse by minors, etc. Blame the GAME…not the PLAYA !! 🤔
WHAT THE HELL…! …OH LAWD…! …@ AFTER ‘…CHARLIE’S COMMENT: …WHAT DID ‘…MIGHTY CHALKDUS SAY…?
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JUST AS INDICATED: ‘…THOUGHT-PROVOKING.’
THE OBJECTIVE HAS BEEN ACHIEVED.
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MUCH THANKS FOR READING AND RESPONDING.
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‘AINT NO PRIEST: and
AINT NO NUN.’
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WHAT ARE YOU…?
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ANTIGUA CARNIVAL IS – UNIQUE.
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AS IN EARLIER TIMES: FROM 1834, IT WAS CELEBRATORY: …FREE OF ENSLAVEMENT.’
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THEN, THAT WAS ‘…SLAVERY:
NOW, IT IS ‘…CARNIVAL.’
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IF YOU LIKE, FOR CARNIVAL PLAY A ‘…JOHN BULL.’
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THIS IS SOCIAL MEDIA:
(a) ‘…BABEE:
(b) …SISSA:
(c) …BREDDA:
(d) …POUPA: and
(e) …MOUMA.’
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NOW
SPARE YOURSELF THE TROUBLE:
(i) …READING THAT OF WHICH YOU SEEM STARVED FOR ‘COMPREHENSION:
(ii)…THAT YOU MAY NOT HEAR JUST WHAT THE ‘…MIGHTY CHALKDUST’ SAY:
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SEE WHAT CAN BE MADE OF THIS, OF COURSE, IF YOU ‘…UNDERSTAND:
(a) ‘…HAVE A ‘…GOAT’ NAMED ‘…BILLY,’
(b) …BILLY CANNOT SPEAK: but
(c) ‘…HE SINGS ‘…LET THE JACKASS BRAY.’
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SOMEHOW, ‘BILLY,’ UNDERSTANDS, WHEN ‘…PEOPLE TRIED AT ‘…IMITATING’ A ‘…JACKASS.’
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DECIPHERING A BIT OF SOMETHING:
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BILLY WAS ‘…BLEATING: …SOMETIMES ‘BAA: AND SOMETIMES MAA.’
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TELL YOU THE TRUTH, COULD NOT TELL WHAT ‘…BILLY’ WANTED.’
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DO KNOW IT WAS NOT ‘…BLEATING FOR ‘…UNDERSTANDING.’
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WHAT THE HELL…!
IT WAS EARLIER SAID: ‘…THOUGHT PROVOKING.’
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…#Kaiso_ThyME!
…who’s gonna take, the blame’s, fu dis Yah?
Dis Yah! #Dist_Yah!
…some are complaining, about, de #Canival flavah!
Flavah! Flavor!
…and, the effects which it’s having, pan, de Youths & Kulcha!
#Kulcha! #Culture!
…many are, crying out, to dem Gad & Savior!
Save Yah! Savior! Jeeezus!
…We want you to, Kum dung and, save us dung yah!
Dung here! Dung Yah!
…’cause, we can’t take this, dis Yah no more!
No more! No more!
…I can remember mas, as early as 1974!
…but, I never envisioned; man phucking man!
…Oman ah skin out, pan man!
#Pan_man!? U too?!
…or, U still jamming, U iron!
Iron! Iron!
…and, beating U pan, not U woman
…as, #Smood & Kewl gentleman!
…so, as one, that they call an #OG!
…I’m gonna say to you! You! U!
Even on #youtube_2!
…this Canrnival, even Internationally!
…I, just witnessed the BALTIMORE & DC
…and, many were just as, #RAUNCHY!
…not even, the LGQBTP!
…does behave with such vulgarity!
…when they’re celebrating, their freedoms from HUEman hypocrisy!
From, HUEman hypocrisy!
From, human history!
From, HUE_MANS and, their stories!
From, all dem fallacies!
All dem fallacies! Your god!
All dem fallacies! Their GOG!
#MAGOG! Dem gods!
U hear controversy!
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
De’ole Dutty Peg👉🏿Garrat_Bastard
Vere Edwards
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