So apparently Chuds are losing their shit about the Paris Olympics opening ceremony being super queer.
Lol, getting mad about the important things as always.
Apparently they've been saying the blue guy had his balls out or some shit? I didn't see anything like that. Bro was wearing blue modesty shorts as far as I could tell.
It honestly doesn't matter much either way. Rainbow capitalism isn't actually doing anything to protect us. If anything anti rainbow capitalism is at least being more honest in its intention
I agree, I am sick of edgelords who never lived in a time where an actor could lose their livelihood for being outed bagging on rainbow capitalism like it's nothing. It's usually shit but it is still not nothing.
I wouldn't even call it rainbow capitalism when a transphobic shit org like the IOC is involved and the number of openly gay dudes among the athletes is so laughably low because homophobia is still rampant in pro sports.
If you don't piss off Matt Walsh then you've truly created nothing of value. He's like the lowest barrier for entry to figuring out if something has the potential for being interesting.
Did I miss something. My dad was only complaining about all the rich people there and my mom thought the Israeli delegation was booing when the MC tried to make a token appeal to some sort of world peace.
The opening ceremony was mediocre though obviously not for the reasons the chuds gnash their teeth. I've binged all the ceremonies back during the pandemic. London 2012 was more of a spectacle even with its typical amnesia of the role of colonialism during its industrial revolution performance, Rio 2016 had much more soul and character, Beijing 2008 is still the unbeatable standard; all of them had a more organized structure than Paris' "tourism ad skit" of Haussmann's old buildings along the Seine. The Parade of Nations is typically meant to give full attention to the athletes and so the constant interruptions to splice in perfomances were obnoxious. I will say that the hot air balloon flame cauldron, reminiscent of those balloons in the old Paris World Fair posters, is a rather unique idea that was also executed fairly well, unlike the boat parade.
The LGBT representation was just one part of Macron's overall rebranding campaign of France's image as an "progressive nation boldly confronting its past" as a theme that permeated the entire ceremony. Seeing that Louise Michel statue description on how she was "exiled to New Caledonia and fought against French colonialism" was quite a satirical display of how superficial Macron's "Brand France" is given the current French colonial occupation and the military troops stationed to squash the still ongoing New Caledonian indigenous protests taking place since May.
I enjoyed the parade of the athletes being broken up. They paused the parade to do their intermissions so countries didn't get missed and I find the parade to be the most boring part that most drags on and on. There's like 150 countries so it was refreshing to have it broken up.
Sadly i dont think American Chuds are remotely the only ones that had a negative reaction to this . So however funny their anger is i'm more ambivalent over whether these shows and performances in stuff like the Eurovision or the Olympics are a net positive for LGBT acceptance worldwide.
Lgbtq+ acceptance is regretably political issue worldwide with a wide range of attitudes and social concervativism being the statuus quo in a lot of the developing world (exported there in large part from western colonization ironicaly) . The best route towards increased LGBT rights and acceptance in most countries is the slow and grueling fight of domestic organic movements for such rights alongside their economic development and to avoid the west acting as the flagbearers and being seen as the "preachers" of those movements, conlfating them in the eyes of many with western cultural hegemony or neoliberal capitalist erosion of local cultures and the general misstrust people hold towards "what the west stands for".
So imo for 100s of millions of non westerners seeing a mediocre drag show in the forefront of the most watched global cultural event that they thought was "apolitical" and "universal" sadly reinforces in their eyes the image of the lgbt/queer movements as western cultural exports, creates another layer of ideological friction against them and so damages the potential of organic domestic movements fighing for more acceptance and rights.
And despite these performances being a small part of the opening ceremony the culture war centered discorse in global social media dominated by western companies, algorithms, media and trends means that this and the relevant "controvercy" is and will be what is blasted in the face of everyone worldwide when they open the news or facebook/twitter/YT and be forced to have a reaction to it
Being queer is apolitical and universal, anyone who doesn't feel that way should fuck off forever. If you don't support my rights you should legitimately be put in a gulag.
edit: oh also, if you're a racist, and you don't think some races deserve all the human rights you do, you should fuck off forever and be put in a gulag.
Being queer should be apolitical and universal. Im describing the existing reality where the struggle for lgbt rights and acceptance isnt . And im stating my opinion on whether performances in such an events a net positive in a context of the current poltical world climate and domestic movements.
An absolute shitton of people in non western countries dont support lgbt rights and as i said this social conservativism its often 19th and 20th century colonial import. 100s of millions if not billions shouldnt be thrown in gulags for their social conservativism. Their countries should be given a chance of geniune non neoliberal economic devlopment and the social changes that comes with and the betterment of lgbt rights and acceptance movements should come from the, admittedly gradual and grueling, natural struggle of domestic organic movements and groups.
At least thats my belief. To this end the more LGBT acceptance is conflated with western and neoliberal cultural hegemony and the more westerm capital, ngos and government pretent to be the moral crusaders of such causes on the world stage the worse in my opinion. I think i gave enough detail on how thay plays out in regard to the topic in my original comment
It's not trolling though. They're just there. What is the alternative, don't have gays in events and TV shows because people might make up a conspiracy?
It's just more pinkwashing imo. Between this and the French banning their athletes from wearing the hijab, it's all completely cynical. With the genocide in Gaza, I can't help but feel this will be weaponized against Palestinians because let's face it, the average person who sympathizes with the Palestinians will be both outraged by the banning of the hijab and completely turned off by the queer parts of the ceremony. This is continuing the process of queer people being weaponized as a tool of Western imperialism and reactionaries using anti-imperialism as an excuse to be queerphobic. And the biggest joke in this tragicomedy is that the West isn't even that good for queer people either.
yep. i saw some anti-government opposition type person tweet something along the lines of "this filth is the result of bending the knee towards islamists and leftists. people of the world will either eradicate this infection or the leftists will step by step ruin any event or concept imaginable. they should open up mental hospitals with the capacity in the millions to put them there." great democratic opposition we have here.
also i mean this in the best way possible, i don't know what the deal with the kid that was there was but they shouldn't have been there. this is just giving chuds more ammo for their bullshit.