"Last Supper" depiction at Olympics Opening Ceremony

I don't know lads, I think the French made a balls of it. I mean London 2012 was quintessentially British, this felt more like something you'd expect from San Fransisco….without all the homeless, excrement on the streets, crime etc…

I can see why Irish "progressive" mammies loved it tho, it had loads of drag, and there's nothing those mammies like better than to bring their infant kids to drag shows…but outside of that I don't know who will have gotten much from it!!

It was unnecessary, why the need to poke fun at the last supper during an opening ceremony of an international sporting event.

And why push the trans agenda aswell. I seen more men dressed as women than actual women performing in the spectacle.

Imo it was self indulgent rubbish by the ceremony director Thomas Jolly.

it had loads of drag

It had about five minutes of drag, in a four hour show.

It was unnecessary, why the need to poke fun at the last supper during an opening ceremony of an international sporting event.

They didn't.

Did you read the thread at all?

And why push the trans agenda aswell. I seen more men dressed as women than actual women performing in the spectacle

Wow… almost like ancient Greek theater did a lot of???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_of_women_in_Athenian_tragedy

Come on people. Let's try and apply our thinking caps.

But they weren't mocking beliefs, nothing to apologise for.

Are you in the habit of telling black people that they are simply wrong to see something as racist if you yourself don’t already see it as such?

Can’t say I’m in the habit of it as I’ve never found myself in those particular circumstances. It’s far more common that I find myself in circumstances where a person claims that something is offensive to their religious beliefs. I was accused of being rude earlier to someone when I had no intention of being rude, and similarly when someone claims something which is not intended to be offensive to their religious beliefs, is offensive to their religious beliefs, I’d simply tell them to fcuk off.

Obviously I’m not going to be rude to you, I’d simply point out there is no legitimate basis for your claim. Anyone doing drag isn’t doing it to mock or insult women. That some women interpret it that way is an entirely separate matter. Daft ideas like that get legs when they go unchallenged with the expectation that people should simply agree and stop what they’re doing. That’s why I was surprised by the French Olympic organising committee issuing an apology for what some people are claiming is blasphemy. The French normally wouldn’t give a fcuk, yet the Church has managed to roll back 200 years of French indifference to religion by having the Olympics committee capitulate to their nonsense.

Drag acts are just entertainers, they have been around for centuries. I saw plenty in my childhood in the 70s & 80s. Don't know what's progressive about them?

Did he say it was NOT a parody of the Last Supper?

The so-called Greek reference is far more obscure than the Da Vinci one. So obscure that it’s probably the artistic directors trying to play up all other possible references pretty much in hindsight, so as to minimise what was originally the principal one.

The explanation given included the claim that in France (we) have the right not to be believers, OWTTE - which confirms that it absolutely was about the Last Supper.

It really is absolutely pathetic the uproar over this, a few clowns leppin around in an opening ceremony and everyone's going on about Muslims.

Would they be able to make father ted nowadays or would the Twitter right wing mob be outraged they wouldn't make a show like that about imans or Muslims or whatever?