Meet Maxim Shabalin and Oksana Domnina, the Russian ice dancers who thought it would be cool to pretend they were aborigines or something.

Look!  Body paint!  Loin cloths!  Leaves for crying out loud!  What a huge heaping load of ignorant insensitive awesome sauce!  I mean I can’t understand why Canada’s First Nations and Australia’s Aboriginal people could be so upset.  I mean it’s only art, right?

Right?

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip called Sunday’s dance by Shabalin and Domnina “deeply offensive,” not just for its fake tribal drum music and costumes, but also the feigned violence toward female dancer Domnina.

Shabalin appears to grab Domnina by her ponytailed hair at one point in the dance.

“I’ve dedicated my entire life to speaking out against violence against women,” said Phillip, chair of the Okanagan Nation Alliance.

“This unfortunate dance (pair) has disrespectfully exploited indigenous culture in previous performances, but I’m absolutely disappointed they appear to have breached an agreement not to do so again.”

Sigh.

See, this isn’t the first time they’ve performed this dance.  They also did it earlier this season at the European Championships.  And believe it or not, the costumes and makeup were even worse.

I’m all for artistic expression, but this has gotta be somewhere south of that, perhaps in the realm of ugly and offensive.  I don’t know which is worse — that they thought it would be okay to do this or that the Olympic judges gave them enough points to win the bronze medal.

They may have only won bronze in Vancouver, but I can assure you that the win today’s Gold Dillweed.

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