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To have allowed my dc watch the Olympic opening ceremony?

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Creepingivy · 27/07/2024 03:10

I was shocked at the library scene leading to a threesome.

The mocking of Christians in the last supper scene.

The feminization of males & the sheer number of transvestites on parade. And a child thrown in the midst of them.

This is a sporting event, why the need to have it so highly sexulaised? My dc were thankfully howling with laughter at parts "the smurf man" singing (complete with his painted bulge) had us all in stitches.

I feel there was a social conditioning agenda to the opening ceremony & it was completely inappropriate given that it is for family viewing. Sexulaised behaviour should not be displayed to children.

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AuxArmesCitoyens · 27/07/2024 16:18

Magnastorm · 27/07/2024 13:55

It wasn't good, but seriously, have the pearl clutchers never been exposed to French art before?

I mean, this isn't hugely out of the ordinary for them. Fair play to them for putting on something that was French, rather than some generic peace to the world bullshit like so many of these things are.

I mean, I hope no-one looks up Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting L'origine du monde...

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Creepingivy · 27/07/2024 16:18

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?

To have allowed my dc watch the Olympic opening ceremony?
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Firdbeeder · 27/07/2024 15:50

So inclusive it was exclusive. I went for a walk during the interminable soggy drag queen section which was somehow still going on by the time I came back. Glad I missed the bollock hanging out of some guy’s knickers.

MistressoftheDarkSide · 27/07/2024 15:49

RunAwayTurnAwayRunAwayTurnAway · 27/07/2024 15:46

She’s the one. She went through a phase of always referring to bread and circuses!

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Oh fair play lol 😆 Must have been under my rock while that was going on - I only come out randomly.

RunAwayTurnAwayRunAwayTurnAway · 27/07/2024 15:46

MistressoftheDarkSide · 27/07/2024 15:22

What, the "culinary" person? God no, just a world weary cynic lol. Bit confused by the reference after goggling. Are they a world weary cynic too lol?

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She’s the one. She went through a phase of always referring to bread and circuses!

TizerorFizz · 27/07/2024 15:38

These ceremonies always seem to be over populated by fogie music. Do the French have a singer/group anyone would know? This has to appeal to the USA market of course. We always thought Adele should have done ours!

Women4women · 27/07/2024 15:37

The hypersexualization of the Olympic ceremonies has nothing to do with being “woke.” It is due to the patriarchal system that objectifies women, reducing them to parts. Unfortunately, the constant subjection to this type of content is being used against women to normalize our abuse in this way. And, it is not only detrimental to women, but to boys and men who grow up not being able to see women as whole people. From that place of lacking grows gender discrimination. And, the cycle continues with even more harmful ramifications.

zaxxon · 27/07/2024 15:33

What's really shocking here is that so many people express a liking for Celine Dion 🧀

zingally · 27/07/2024 15:29

I told my two they could watch it if they wanted.
Both had lost interest and wondered off by about 30 minutes in. I turned it off from about 7:30-8:30 to do bedtime as normal - as neither expressed any interest in staying up for it!
I turned it back on for about the last hour, but thought it wasn't anything special. But yes, I agree quite a lot of it seemed unnecessarily sexualised, but shrugged it off as "there's the French for you."

MistressoftheDarkSide · 27/07/2024 15:22

RunAwayTurnAwayRunAwayTurnAway · 27/07/2024 13:35

Are you Jack Monroe?

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What, the "culinary" person? God no, just a world weary cynic lol. Bit confused by the reference after goggling. Are they a world weary cynic too lol?

Boomer55 · 27/07/2024 15:06

I didn’t really get the naked Smurf. They hung the flag upside down. But, overall, it was spectacular, with the fireworks, and slightly strange with their themes. lol Celine Dion was excellent.

Oriunda · 27/07/2024 15:03

I adored it. There were so many references to French culture, it was blink and you'd miss it, and I can see how many folks not familiar with France wouldn't get the references to, say, Dalida (parole, parole). I'd hope that everyone got the Les Mis one when parkour guy interrupted rehearsals at the Chatelet theatre!

I'm sure in 2012 many folk didn't get the Mr Bean segment (which I actually hated, and I'm British).

The disabled breakdancer on crutches at the end was fabulous ..... we saw him perform in Paris a couple of weeks ago.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 27/07/2024 14:48

Appledoughnut · 27/07/2024 12:34

So what you are saying is that he's a petty, easily swayed person, with no back bone.

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No, I think it's quite obvious what I'm saying.

If you pretend not to understand, that's on you.

If Macron chooses not to listen, we'll end up with the far right in power eventually.

The point is that you don't win your population over to your point of view by going, "ha ha ha!" and giving them more of what they don't like.

UpTheMagicFarawayTree · 27/07/2024 14:40

NerrSnerr · 27/07/2024 14:16

Literally nothing happened in the 'threesome scene'. He literally closed a door and that was it. None of that whole story registered on my children's radar at all.

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Precisely, there was nothing to see.

Kriscross · 27/07/2024 14:35

TomeTome · 27/07/2024 04:57

Can you explain? I thought transvestism just meant dressing in stereotypical women’s clothing if you are male and vice versa if female. What has it got to do with homophobia?

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This.

Men dressed up as women in a show aren't women are they drag then?

WandsOut · 27/07/2024 14:31

Magnastorm · 27/07/2024 13:55

It wasn't good, but seriously, have the pearl clutchers never been exposed to French art before?

I mean, this isn't hugely out of the ordinary for them. Fair play to them for putting on something that was French, rather than some generic peace to the world bullshit like so many of these things are.

"Penis to the world" seems to have been the message here surely. How edgy.

WandsOut · 27/07/2024 14:30

vivainsomnia · 27/07/2024 13:42

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

Not sure a middle aged bloke with a beard dancing badly in a dress is evolved but ok you wild young things
😂😂😂😂

NerrSnerr · 27/07/2024 14:16

808Mom · 27/07/2024 13:36

I too thought it was inappropriate and told my son to close his eyes right before the threesome scene. I thought this would be something fun for my 10 yr. old son and I to watch together and a cool experience for him to watch his first Olympic opening ceremony but, had I known beforehand I probably would've just watched alone or maybe not even at all. My 10 yr old said the Marie Antoinette scene was gross and thought it just thought that most of it was, in his words, "pretty weird" Unfortunately I say, I agree. Best and Only part that I enjoyed, was Celine Dion.

Literally nothing happened in the 'threesome scene'. He literally closed a door and that was it. None of that whole story registered on my children's radar at all.

Phineyj · 27/07/2024 13:58

I am still perturbed from time to time thinking about the disturbing astronomy-themed animation I was subjected to in a French planetarium once.

They did try to warn us on the ticket desk, to be fair!

Magnastorm · 27/07/2024 13:55

It wasn't good, but seriously, have the pearl clutchers never been exposed to French art before?

I mean, this isn't hugely out of the ordinary for them. Fair play to them for putting on something that was French, rather than some generic peace to the world bullshit like so many of these things are.

vivainsomnia · 27/07/2024 13:42

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

808Mom · 27/07/2024 13:36

I too thought it was inappropriate and told my son to close his eyes right before the threesome scene. I thought this would be something fun for my 10 yr. old son and I to watch together and a cool experience for him to watch his first Olympic opening ceremony but, had I known beforehand I probably would've just watched alone or maybe not even at all. My 10 yr old said the Marie Antoinette scene was gross and thought it just thought that most of it was, in his words, "pretty weird" Unfortunately I say, I agree. Best and Only part that I enjoyed, was Celine Dion.

RunAwayTurnAwayRunAwayTurnAway · 27/07/2024 13:35

MistressoftheDarkSide · 27/07/2024 13:04

Heh heh heh.

Bread and circuses as the golden age declines.....

Are you Jack Monroe?

lorien9 · 27/07/2024 13:14

Don't worry, OP, your DC have been taught the lesson that every young Briton must learn, viz that the French are a nation of perverts.

MistressoftheDarkSide · 27/07/2024 13:04

Heh heh heh.

Bread and circuses as the golden age declines.....

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