The mayor of Mexico hired strippers for an event to celebrate Father’s Day
Mexico mayor hired strippers to perform lap dances at Father’s Day event, prompting shocked mothers to walk out of the venue with their children
- Miguel Villalobos, the mayor of the southern Mexican city of Huehuetán, hosted a Father’s Day party with female strippers on Saturday
- The event included live music, a comedy show and a raffle before the hired group of bikini-clad women stepped to the front of the auditorium
- Footage filmed by one of the guests showed the women performing a routine and later giving lap dances to a group of men
A Mexican mayor has come under fire for hiring female strippers to perform at a Father’s Day event in the southern city of Huehuetán, which borders Guatemala.
Hundreds of fathers flocked to the council auditorium on Saturday, where Mayor Miguel Villalobos treated them to live music, a comedy show and a raffle of televisions, fans and microwaves before a troupe of dancers stepped outside.
Footage filmed by one of the attendees shows the strippers – of Central American descent according to El Universal newspaper – performing their routine.
At one point during the raucous celebration, three men were plucked from the crowd and seen lying on the stage floor while receiving full body lap dances.
Strippers were hired by the administration of Miguel Villalobos, a mayor in the southern Mexico city of Huehuetán, for a Father’s Day event on Saturday
One of the strippers performs a dance routine for hundreds of men during the event
Mayor Miguel Villalobos has not yet commented on his decision to allow strippers to perform for Father’s Day
The invitation to the controversial event was posted to Villalobos’ Facebook account on June 2 and again on Friday and clearly prohibited women and children from attending.
‘Tomorrow! Remember, an event only for fathers, the day has come,” the mayor’s caption read.
However, a video of the event uploaded to the mayor’s page on Monday showed several women in attendance.
Local media reported that mothers were inside the building who were disgusted and walked out with their children as the strippers performed.
Local feminist organization, 50+1 Collective Chiapas Chapter, condemned the stripper act for its “sexually suggestive dances.”
Female strippers stand above the crowd on Saturday at a Father’s Day event organized by the mayor of the Mexican city of Huehuetán
Mayor Miguel Villalobos (right) greets one of hundreds of dads who attended the controversial Father’s Day celebration where female strippers attended
“Father’s Day was conceived to highlight the importance of the father figure in people’s lives and highlight his role in the integration and maintenance of the family nucleus,” the collective said in a statement Monday.
“That is why it is a pity that the (mayor), José Manuel Angel Villalobos, has offered, on this date, a show that reproduces gender stereotypes and reduces women as sexual objects. Placing women in a place of subordination and reproducing patterns of objectification and domination constitutes symbolic violence.’
The group also called for local officials to receive proper training on gender issues to ensure that women’s rights are not violated.
Mayor Villalobos had not addressed the event on Tuesday morning.