To have allowed my dc watch the Olympic opening ceremony?

You shouldn't be using phrases like "woke agenda" OP. Woke means empathetic and aware of injustice in the world. You also should not be using outdated offensive terms like "transvestite". Yes perhaps a little over sexualised, as was Eurovision imo but the terms you use are extremely offensive and you need to read up and understand why.

You shouldn't be using phrases like "woke agenda" OP. Woke means empathetic and aware of injustice in the world. You also should not be using outdated offensive terms like "transvestite". Yes perhaps a little over sexualised, as was Eurovision imo but the terms you use are extremely offensive and you need to read up and understand why.

Actually at these Olympics 60% of the food is plant based vegan which makes it all the more surprising that the foie gras is being served at all. I believe it is an American catering firm doing this.

The more people who get in contact with the organisers and challenge them the better. As far as I know the foie gras is only being served in the VIP areas and only as an ingredient and not as an item in its own right. There is no reason for them to have it.

Thank you for sharing this. Unfortunately the French don’t give a fuck about animal welfare - try visiting there as a vegan and you soon realise their priorities.

I used the word transvestite in a conversation with my teen daughter the other day ( not meaning to be offensive, just referencing a man wearing women's clothing ). She called me homophonic for using the term. I honestly had no idea the term was no longer in use or could cause offence and definitely did not mean any.

Pop over to the Mumsnet so-called feminism board. They'll love you there

Yeah, I'm French and I'm at it like a rat up a drainpipe 😎

I would think that it would be pretty normal to assume the opening ceremony for the Olympics would be intended for family viewing.

There are plenty of very French cultural references and traditions that are completely suitable for all ages, there was really no need to try and sex it up.

I'd also say - while the Olympics might be in a particular country, it's watched by people all over the world with quite a variety of religious and cultural beliefs. It should be suitable viewing for all.

It just comes off as being like that creep who can't stop bringing sex into the conversation because he thinks it makes him edgy and sophisticated, but instead he just seems like a dirty old man.

I would like to thank the thankers on this message (15) and say if you are concerned about foie gras being served (it is banned in UK) please have a look at the websites of CIWF (Compassion in World Farming) and Animal Equity who have been campaigning to stop it. It isn't too late to remove it from the menus for the rest of the games. They have been asking people to send emails to the organizers and to share the message on SM. Thank you.

The threesome was referencing one of the most influential and iconic films of the 20th century. Hardly something no-one has never heard of.

Can't comment on this as I make a point of never watching the opening or closing ceremonies of anything like this as they have absolutely nothing to do with the sporting event itself.

Personally I am not happy about this Olympics because the hospitality organizers are serving foie gras. Nothing screams premier sporting occasion like ramming a tube down the throats of ducks and geese and force feeding them until their livers become enlarged and diseased.

erm - not sure the BBC has, or intends to, broadcast 5+ hours of 'homelessness' or 'live rioting from Leeds' at 6:30pm on a Friday night for family delectation though.

I think it was more than a few rioters. There was extreme violence and total disrespect for the law. All because children’s services were acting to save children’s lives.

your post makes me 🤣 it’s not false equivalence at all. You have actually proved my point. Homeless people anywhere is heartbreaking. As are the wars across the world, animal cruelty terrible etc. all of these things are awful and something that should be worried about. People having fun, not harming anyone is not something to worry about.

anyways cba with all this backward thinking so enjoy the rest of your day 😂😂😂

I think some mners are struggling with the indisputable fact that each generation evolves from the last one .....

An assortment of responses:
@Happyhoppy15 Far bigger things to worry about your children seeing such as the huge riots we had recently in Leeds?
Does the phrase "false equivalence" mean anything to you? No? Ok, let's try a different way: Why are you moaning bout a few. rioters. in Leeds when there's homeless people in Luton? Why are you so bothered about the UK when the entire middle east is permanently at war? What about the inhuman suffering the dinosaurs went through? The diplodocuses had it worse than you, so what's the harm in your kids watching some extreme goat-on-goat por.... hmm.
Did you spot the problem yet?

@scottishheather86 Have you ever been to France?
Quite a few times actually, over the years, business and pleasure. Fags are cheaper, the brazieries sell grown-up lager rather than the pish water sold in the UK for the last 10 years, but only in thimble sized glasses. Fishing for Well's catfish, pike, and perch is good in some private chateau lakes. Some of the older people in Bénouville are the kindest people you'll ever meet, and the very best speakers.
What's your question got to do with exposing young children to pornography though.. is that something you do regularly perhaps?

@Willmafrockfit i would say it was nothing! its french, what do you expect
See also:
It's not important, he's a foreign! They get get their heads caved in all the time, what did you expect?
I don't give two hoots, they're ethnics! Of course it was them who stole your purse, what do you expect from them?
You're not important and you don't matter! Fcuk your siht and what you think, I'm [insert group/class/category/whatever pigeonhole here] so I can say whatever I like without fear of repercussion or consequence!

@Peaceandquietandacuppa 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)
Oh piss off Methuselah. If your idea of justification for sexualising children is based on one single black and white "moving picture" that middle aged people's parents are too young to remember, then it's not really a valid point, is it?

@MessinaBloom OP seems to be quite annoyed about what she saw as an ingrained agenda in the Opening Ceremony. This implies she saw traces of it throughout, so she could have simply turned it off. I know I do that if a programme irritates me enough.
So let's have this right.. What you're saying is that a "hypothetical person" can make a tv program to be broadcast to every country on Earth that serves as an intro to a global event which several billion people will watch live, and just show whatever they like in it? You'll stand and fight for "person's" right to show live, uncensored, unregulated acts of zoophilia, coprophilia, torture, human vivisection, rang gape, chilled prawnography, shit that Serbian... did when they encountered humans for the first time at Srebrenica, "forced" this that and the other... You wholeheartedly support a "hypothetical person's right" to put that in front of families and children all across the world and justify it with a simple "pshh, aint my problem bruv, you let em watch it, that's on you" quip.
That's correct, isn't it?

What @Firdbeeder ,you mean this dangling testicle? 😜 And the owner happens to be front & centre in front of Papa Smurf?

Was this the scene the child was in?