To have allowed my dc watch the Olympic opening ceremony?

It was awful, why everything has to push boundaries and be shocking to be deemed artistic is sad and pathetic but nothing new. There are plenty of religions people wouldn't stand for them being mocked, Christianity is fair game in popular culture though and it's about time people stood up to it. Yes there's free speech, but then this should apply across the board and not just mocking Christianity.

Honestly the pervert apologists will find a way to condone anything and blame others for not being down with the kids. Even though most of the drag acts were older men.

i thought michael johnson's comments were very negative.

i also recall criticism of 2012

The ceremony was a bit naff but The Last Supper is literally a painting of men in dresses (robes) with long hair so not sure you can really claim it has been made ‘femme.’

Thanks for posting this here OP, it was a disgusting and depraved display of very obvious male arrogance - especially as women are fighting to keep women's sports free of cheating males.

Shocked? Really? You need to get out more love.

The library scene was weird but it was obviously inspired by the movie “Jules and Jim” and the nouvelle vague (really famous French era of movie making in the 50s)

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I imagine most Christians don’t like their religion to be mocked.

And the reason Islam is brought up is because there is a marked difference in how both are treated. Maybe it’s not reported on but I don’t see big protests because a play is not depicting other religions as they would like them to be. Whereas Films/plays have been pulled because they offended some Muslims often in slight unintended ways whereas you can call your film/play “Christianity is shit” and not have to fear any repercussions.

Seeing this brought back the horror of a man painted blue - I didn't realise he was meant to be a god! - with hardly anything to disguise a bulge!

Can anyone explain the galloping silver horse?

Whilst you can normally expect things after 9pm not always to be suitable for children, the Olympic Ceremony should be one anyone can see without the concerns you validly had, OP.

@OpizpuHeuvHiyo That makes a lot of sense. Went straight over my head

It was like Eurovision on crack

I reckon they must have done some workshopping to identify all the phrases in French that are used internationally and made sure to include all of them.
Carte Blanche
Menage à trois
Son et lumière
Avant-garde
Femme fatale
Parkour (parcours)
Deja vu (for the interminable bits)
Cliché
Comme ci, comme ca

Me and dh decided we must be getting old after it finished.
Spoke to my gran this morning and asked her what she thought, "all a bit queer" she says. So that's all the confirmation we need.
It's velcro slippers and humbugs from here on out for us two.

I ended up turning off.

I just found it really sad, to be honest. As some other pps have said, why does sex have to be shoehorned into everything?

I’ve watched every opening ceremony since Barcelona as a child, love seeing the torch get lit etc…this time I didn’t get that far. This opening ceremony was bizarre, highly sexualised, boring at times. It just seemed like a drag showcase for a disproportionate amount of time. What did it actually have to do with the Olympics? Sporting greatness? The ambition to be great? Focus on the athletes? Nations coming together in unity? There wasn’t the same kind of excitement as I’ve come to expect from the Olympic ceremony.

Yeah they’re usually a bit twee, sanitised etc but there was nothing good at all about what I saw last night. It was just really really fucking tacky and smutty. And no, not appropriate for my children to watch. We had Grandparents in their 70s staying too and they also asked if we could switch it off as they found it inappropriate (and were most likely upset about the Last Supper, as they are religious). No other OC has been this sexualised. It used to be a “safe” event. This was the first year Eurovision got too much for our family as well. Honestly…I hate the way this world is going.

And by the way, I’m not homophobic, prudish, white or right wing or any of the other things people that didn’t like the ceremony are being accused of. I just remember a time when things were nicer and, as a first generation immigrant from a former French colony who knows the culture well, I’d expected France’s contribution to have been a bit classier, to be honest. This was trash and the opposite of inspirational.

YABU, I thought it was a fantastic show but a shame about the weather especially for the performers and crew. I don't think there is any problems with a child watching that, children won't sexualise it anyway. Why not mock religion a bit (although I'm not sure it was), we don't all believe the fairy tales in the various religious books.

I did think the director of the ceremony was being deliberately provocative to ensure it was noticed, now it doesn't really bother me as no kids and I'm liberal minded but why the Dionysus character needed to be bulging, why the drag artists when it doesn't even make women's clothes look good due to lack of hips, why the menage a trois ... to annoy 50% of the world? And what with the man in sparkly pants on ballet points? Only women wear points (why not a sequence with some beautiful classical ballet?)

Mostly it was so drawn out, the drag bit was obviously to fill the gap as the got people off the boats ready for the flag etc and the mechanical horse was great but way too long ...

The odd thing with me is I don't have an issue with drag etc but in context and this was weird because for fashion, where was the "normal" men's wear!

I agree ! That’s why I used the “ “ as I know it will be right wing little britainers who probably haven’t been to church recently!!

I was thinking about the athletes and how standing on a boat in the rain is probably not the best preparation for taking part in the Olympics!

I think it’s a really good example of how social and moral standards are not the same from one country to the next - on the whole French society is more relaxed about some things than British society. (As an example, I was watching TV in France with my French in laws a few years ago and the show depicted full nudity and sex at about 8.30pm I think?).

attitudes to religion in France are very different as well.

i thought it was great, was different and showed off Paris wonderfully.

I don’t think you can expect an international event to meet your cultural norms.

It’s not astounding that a ménage à trois and French kissing were depicted in a French cultural display. They’re a secular state and religious satire is highly cultural in France. And the continent is known for being more sexually open than we are (I don’t think you can topless sunbathe on Blackpool beach!).

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There had to be one

Homophonic? Using words that sound the same but are spelt differently? Stare and stair. Bear and bare.

Words matter.