What is “that Filipino look”? Discuss.
yorkie85 alerted us to this news report on the BBC about a Scottish MSP who resigned as convener of the petitions committee and sports spokesperson of the Labour Party after he was heard making comments about “a very attractive girl” in the public gallery.
This is what Glasgow Shettleston MSP Frank McAveety was heard to say: “There’s a very attractive girl in the second row, dark…and dusky. We’ll maybe put a wee word out for her…She’s very attractive looking, nice, very nice, very slim.
“The heat’s getting to me. She looks kinda…she’s got that Filipino look. You know…the kind you’d see in a Gauguin painting. There’s a wee bit of culture.”
Here’s a Gauguin:
yorkie85 wants to know: What is “that Filipino look”?
Supplementary questions:
You can’t ogle an attractive person now? Or you can’t be caught ogling an attractive person? Are they being prissy? Is it because the girl turned out to be of school age? Or because the MSP is married? Or because he mentioned Gauguin? This is what constitutes a sex scandal now (Bo-ring)? If we apply this standard to our politicians, how many would be left in the government?
By “Filipino look” is he referring to the appearance of what Mar-Vic calls the “mango shake girls”—the women who sit in Cafe Havana at Greenbelt 3 sipping the same mango shake for three hours until they are approached by foreigners? (Look out for the frothing political correctness police!)
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
June 17th, 2010 at 23:42
“the filipino look”, i expect, only exists in the minds of non-filipino males.
June 18th, 2010 at 01:26
So is this another case of alllooksame? Gauguin lived in Tahiti.
June 18th, 2010 at 02:30
@oberstein: That surprises you? Most indigenous peoples of the Philippines are from Austronesian stock. So yeah we DO look the same.
June 18th, 2010 at 02:52
@anonymongoose I know that; I’m being indignant (because he had to mention Gauguin) on behalf of my majored-in-art-history friends and thinking along these lines: http://alllooksame.com/exam_room.php
June 18th, 2010 at 08:37
the native pinay look: sun-kissed o anu man ang kulay nang balat, dito pa rin consistent: makinis, malinis, at mukhang mabango. hindi katangkaran pero solido ang pangagatawan–parang laging handang magbanat nang buto (hindi mukhang ampaw sa kahihilata sa sofa). nagpapalit nang damit at naliligo araw-araw kaya malaking-malaki ang lamang sa paligo kaysa sa ibang lahi.
June 18th, 2010 at 08:59
Maybe the “I’m innocent take me now dear sir” look. :) That reputation of subservience and obedience now translates to our looks.
June 18th, 2010 at 09:33
hahaha! our gays like to warn us, if we’re wearing too much make-up or revealing clothes, “Girls kuma-cafe havana tayo today ah. Iwas muna sa Greenbelt!”
I really hope that the Filipino look he’s referring to is not to be confused with the Sarong Party Girl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarong_party_girl), but the Gauguin reference makes it seem that way…
June 18th, 2010 at 10:50
My take on the “Filipino look.”
It’s the “island-girl” look – exotic (I know this is an over used word), dusky, sexy, smells fresh all the time, flirty…serene, too. One that makes you long for the sea and sun and s-e-x.
These adjectives, to me, are all positive and not politically incorrect.
So, I don’t get it why Pinays go for “whitening” products, and swoon over “mestiza” looking stars.
June 18th, 2010 at 12:55
If MSP was referring to Gauguin, he might have seen someone who has close to 70’s Nora Aunor, Carol Banawa or Kaye Abad. Brown and Beautiful. And that is what I think the Filipina Look.
June 18th, 2010 at 13:48
the filipino look is boring. i want the mestiza look.
June 18th, 2010 at 13:50
they’re being prissy. and i guess it’s part of the “pedophile!”/”think of the children”/”child porn!” mass hysteria in much of western culture right now.
i don’t think it’s because the MSP is married, this is after all Europe where they’re more open about sexuality. it’s mostly about the stigma against “desiring” minor-age girls.
for better (or worse) examples, see Australia, where there have been proposals to ban small breasted women because they might promote child porn.
June 18th, 2010 at 17:26
LOL! Mango Shake Girls, Sarong Party Girls; my friends and I call them exotics. Like expensive fish in an aquarium. Gotta pay to play.
June 18th, 2010 at 17:32
And oh, the Filipino look, seems not many of those to be found in corporate settings.
June 19th, 2010 at 01:57
Aii…2 words: Tetchie Agbayani.