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Barbados: Chocolate Controversy

Categories: Caribbean, Barbados, Ideas, Women & Gender

Following the firing of Barbados’ Banks Beer calendar girl after a controversial display, Gallimaufry [1] writes: “I find it kind of gross that people would eat chocolate that a half-naked woman with whom they are not intimately acquainted has been sitting down in”, while Cheese-on-Bread [2] says: “Our ancestral women, black white or yellow, didn't fight for equality of the sexes so that today's females could make exhibitions of themselves.”