How a Bachelorette Party Video Unveiled Mexico's Deepest Social Constraints Rafa Fernandez De Castro - Fusion
go to original October 7, 2016

Lady Coralina - Mexican Fiancée cheating on future Husband in Cancun (Baja Viral)

A viral video of a young woman making out with a young man during a drunken bachelorette party is stirring a public debate on fidelity, social media shaming, and society’s double standards on female sexuality. It’s also sparking a heated discussion on what counts as news in Mexico, and how Mexican society treats issues of personal privacy in the digital age.

All that from one kiss.

The video, which shows the soon-to-be bride kissing a young man at a club while his male friends and bystanders shout no se casa (doesn’t get married), first started making the rounds on Mexican social media last month. In the following weeks, the woman - dubbed Lady Coralina, after the “Coralina Daylight Club” where the kiss went down - became an internet celebrity who got national coverage in Mexican gossip magazines and news outlets. “Lady Coralina kisses another guy and wedding gets canceled,” reads a late September headline by Mexican daily El Universal.

The club also got in on the media frenzy by publishing a photograph of the woman and her friends in its Facebook page in an attempt to turn the viral video into a promotional opportunity.

Lady Carolina even got her own Mexican corrido ballad.

But it’s not all gossip and giggles. The Lady Coralina incident has also caused Mexico to look in the mirror and ask itself: Why are we still talking about this? And the answers to that question have led to some thoughtful critiques on Mexican society in the digital age.

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