Lebanon, once thought of as among the most liberal parts of the Middle East, is poised to ban global hit movie “Barbie.” More conservative Kuwait said Wednesday that it had gone ahead with a ban du…

Different country, different culture. Anyhow, the movie is actually somewhat superficial, I understand.

  • Veraticus@lib.lgbtEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    “Different country, different culture” doesn’t make homophobia okay, and it doesn’t make it okay to call the movie homophobic when it had nothing at all to do with gay people. They’re just calling it that because their fragile patriarchy conceives of an attack against it as being anti-man which to them is also gay. It’s a disgusting and wrong point of view, and we can say that despite their country and culture.

    Barbie was a pretty thorough takedown of patriarchy and toxic masculinity and hardly seemed superficial to me.

    And I would hope those countries’ points of view would in fact be very difficult to understand.

  • rjs001@lemmygrad.ml
    02·
    1 year ago

    Bad reason to bad but it’s preferable if countries start banning awful, vile western spewings

        • Dr Cog@mander.xyz
          0·
          1 year ago

          Isn’t that a bit fascist? People should be able to watch what they want to watch

          • rjs001@lemmygrad.ml
            01·
            1 year ago

            That’s not what fascism is. We ban things as a society that are harmful for us. I’m sure libertarians disagree with that basic principal but pretty much everyone else doesnt

          • 133arc585@lemmy.ml
            01·
            1 year ago

            I don’t think you know what “fascist” means.

            Moreover, people will happily complain that Chinese/Russian “propaganda” is allowed to exist, especially on the internet. They will demand that Chinese/Russian “propaganda” is removed from social spaces. And, then they somehow they have a problem with other countries (esp. China/Russia) wanting to do the exact same thing. The premise is that the propaganda being put out is misrepresenting the truth to influence public thought: when it comes from China/Russia, people want it blocked and removed; when it comes from the West, blocking and removing it is some sort of “free speech” issue (or, as you wrongly claim here, “fascism”).

            In this particular case, I don’t personally know hardly anything about the movie, and I do strongly disagree with using “promoting homosexuality” as an excuse to ban something. But in general, countries wanting to put a damper on other countries’ propaganda is near universal.