I haven't seen this, but I'm fairly sure I'm outraged

Mr Badger

Mr Badger

Mr Badger

Soldato
Joined
27 Dec 2009
Posts
10,915
'Bacha bazi' outrage after pandemic takes play to the small screen

Lyricist Charlie Sohne and composer Tim Rosser created a musical about a subject even Afghans would consider too sensitive and unsettling - "bacha bazi" or "boy play".

Bacha bazi is a practice whereby wealthy, powerful older men buy and keep adolescent boys - known as dancing boys - for entertainment and sex. The boys are trained to dance seductively at male-only parties and often sexually abused.

The Boy Who Danced on Air told a love story between a 16-year-old boy, Paiman, and another young boy caught in the same bacha bazi practice.
Click to expand...

Apparently critics liked it but now the wider backlash has started it seems the penny has dropped that child sex abuse isn't the most appropriate topic for a romantic musical. It's as though they thought "Springtime for Hitler" was a real musical and decided to top it.

Optional discussion point: Do you need to have actually seen something to be outraged by it?
 
OP, you are being culturally insensitive and bigoted towards Afghan culture.


Bacha bazi is a centuries-old tradition. One of the original factors mobilising the rise of the Taliban was their opposition to the practice. After the Taliban came to power in 1996, bacha bazi was banned along with all forms of homosexuality. The Taliban considered it incompatible with Sharia law. As with other homosexual activities, the charge carried the death penalty.

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

You know the progressive left support this behaviour and want paedophilia normalised.

‘Virtuous Paedophiles’: Another sickening step towards the normalisation of paedophilia by ‘enlightened progressives’

https://www.opindia.com/2019/06/vir...sation-of-pedophilia-by-enlightened-liberals/
 
Last edited:
Sounds culturally insensitive and totally racist to me. You should support these people and their choice to receive sexual gratification from young boys.
You need to check your privilege OP.
 
Dis86 said:
Sounds culturally insensitive and totally racist to me. You should support these people and their choice to receive sexual gratification from young boys.
You need to check your privilege OP.
Click to expand...

Good effort, but you were comprehensively out trolled by plasmahal.
 
Dis86 said:
Trolling? I'm serious. I recently got told I was racist because I find the taste of rotting fish to be abhorrent.
Click to expand...

I'm not surprised - that's no way for you to talk to a lady!

Plasmahal at least had the decency to completely ignore the actual content of the news item and go off on some bizarre tangent claiming that liberal progressives are promoting paedophilia.
 
Mr Badger said:
I'm not surprised - that's no way for you to talk to a lady!

Plasmahal at least had the decency to completely ignore the actual content of the news item and go off on some bizarre tangent claiming that liberal progressives are promoting paedophilia.
Click to expand...


Ooof. I can confirm it was not a feminine hygiene related comment. :D
 
Mr Badger said:
Apparently critics liked it but now the wider backlash has started it seems the penny has dropped that child sex abuse isn't the most appropriate topic for a romantic musical.
Click to expand...
People who find love while stuck in (or even escaping) abusive situations has been a common backdrop for a long long time. From the slave farms and gladiator pits to Victorian workhouses and marriages arranged to abusive nobles... The concept, at least, is well-established.

From the article:
"In the 1990s, bacha bazi was outlawed by the Taliban, with sodomy, dancing and music carrying the death penalty - although the militant group have been accused of participating in the practice themselves"
And yet here's a play featuring all three banned elements, being waved in the Taliban faces... Seems more like a dig at them and a move to put the problem in the word's spotlight, rather than a 'shock value' public stunt or whatever.

Mr Badger said:
Optional discussion point: Do you need to have actually seen something to be outraged by it?
Click to expand...
You'd probably have to at least be familiar with the material and how it's actually presented, if you wanted to validate your outrage, yes.

You can't base your own judgement only on what someone else says the film is about.
For example: https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-mo...pinterest&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=raja

Watch it for yourself, and form your own opinion from that. Don't let someone else's outrage define yours.
 
plasmahal said:
OP, you are being culturally insensitive and bigoted towards Afghan culture.


Bacha bazi is a centuries-old tradition. One of the original factors mobilising the rise of the Taliban was their opposition to the practice. After the Taliban came to power in 1996, bacha bazi was banned along with all forms of homosexuality. The Taliban considered it incompatible with Sharia law. As with other homosexual activities, the charge carried the death penalty.

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

You know the progressive left support this behaviour and want paedophilia normalised.

‘Virtuous Paedophiles’: Another sickening step towards the normalisation of paedophilia by ‘enlightened progressives’

https://www.opindia.com/2019/06/vir...sation-of-pedophilia-by-enlightened-liberals/
Click to expand...

Do you consider this to be an appropriate and reasonable argument?

What's more likely to stop the practice, ignoring it or opening it up to scrutiny? That said, there are better formats in my view than theatre for getting people to criticise archaic and immoral practices.
 
Last edited:
StriderX said:
Do you consider this to be an appropriate and reasonable argument?

What's more likely to stop the practice, ignoring it or opening it up to scrutiny? That said, there are better formats in my view than theatre for getting people to criticise archaic and immoral practices.
Click to expand...

Yet when people who highlight the mass rape and abuse of children in the UK, people like the OP shut them down as it is regarded as culturally insensitive, racist, divisive, whatever the latest buzz word is.

The Hypocrisy is strong here.
 
Last edited:
plasmahal said:
Yet when people who highlight the mass rape and abuse of children in the UK, people like the OP shut them down as it is regarded as culturally insensitive, racist, divisive, whatever the latest buzz work is.

The Hypocrisy is strong here.
Click to expand...


And it's slavery.
When will the riots start?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom