To have allowed my dc watch the Olympic opening ceremony?

[Creepingivy]

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.

I thought it was shit because it was disjointed, too long and repetitive. Luckily I’m not consumed by hysteria about wokeism so my pearls remain unclutched, but I would say that you’re probably going to be let down if you expect the city of Paris to present a showcase of conservative family values and respect for christianity.

Woman in sparkly suit was Nadia Comaneci.

Oh, the witty people are out today

I was being a bit facetious. I think people coming here have to abide by our laws and values but liberals are taking things way too far now.

I had also assumed the drag/music tableau was not so much mocking Christianity but was one of the many art inspired tableaux, this time showing the riotous spirt of Paris - with a hat tip to Molliere.

…I wonder how many people who are claiming to be outraged about Christianity, have actually been to church recently ?

I’m Catholic, I go most weeks .. and I was in no way outraged.

We are all made in Gods image for starters

Everyone is welcome at church, regardless of what they are wearing

Da Vinci was not actually at the last supper, it’s an artistic representation.. and the real event would not have looked anything like that

The painting is not an Holy Object, and has been referenced in many films and comedies over the years.

Our mission, as Christians, is it spread love .. not to be angry or outraged.

I would ask that people stop using my religion to hide your prejudice behind.

Chapeau

@ExtraOnions I am not "outraged". My complaint is certainly not concealing any "prejudice". I am aware that the painting is not a holy item, but represents a holy event. I am RC, most of my life my religion has been mocked. Fine. I believe in free speech. However, it was a nation's showcase, demonstrating their culture. Their choice to do this, my opinion is that it wasn't an inclusive thing, but hey. That's life.

Inam not clutching pearls around the last supper depiction, only saying if it was a symbol of other religions they would not be using/ parodying it. The Christianity of Europe has allowed more liberty to its citizens for which we should all be grateful.

I watched it on RTE and I think the broadcasters could have done with a better briefing. A lot of the references went clean over everyone's heads. Like the Jules et Jim bit - and apparently the horse was a reference to The Assassin's creed (I read it on X so it must be true)?

Very uneven overall I'd say, but the end was spectacular and Celine smashed it.

I loved the dramatic Tricolore over the bridge.

I am still not convinced that the drag/dance tableaux was mocking the Last Supper as such. But even of it was, satire aimed the very powerful and oppressive Catholic church is a deep part of French culture.

Thank you. The part I watched named the others but not her

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?

‘Going to the library is to borrow books,’
I know right? How vanilla and prudish! Everyone knows libraries almost always lead to threesomes whilst dressed as harlequins 🤣

😂😂

I wonder if all the PPs referring to others as "pearl clutchers" realise how sexist that phrase is.

What's in this week's Thesaurus acceptable list of words?

The many Americans we met in the States immediately after London 2012 thought it had been wonderful, their only complaints were about their own woeful coverage of events.

Charlie Hebdo is the reason they will only mock Christianity, they know the consequences of mocking 'other' religions whose followers will resort to violence for the slightest reason.

The innuendo surrounding the whole scene implied a threesome was a done deal.

I can't understand why the men were feminised so much throughout. Even the fashion show had no male clothing, just men in make up being feminised.

They really are trying to normalise this shit.

Joking apart, I have gone through half a loo roll during the night sneezing and nose-blowing yet I only watched the last hour! Couldn't understand why, maybe I do now.

I wouldn't worry, just ask her this week's correct term, they'll make another one up next week!

Sneering at women is always acceptable, especially by other women because it makes you look like one of the cool girls. Misogyny, the gift that goes on giving ….

He wanted the French equivalent of James Bond and the Queen
So did I but I accept that the world has evolved and the 'equivalent' would have been very boring from an artistic point of view.

Every country has their own artistic style and this was 'very French' in an Avant guarde style. Surely your French husband can appreciate this, even if he doesn't like it.