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

[Mr Badger]

'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.

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?

 

[Mr Badger]

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.

Good effort, but you were comprehensively out trolled by plasmahal.

 

[Mr Badger]

Trolling? I'm serious. I recently got told I was racist because I find the taste of rotting fish to be abhorrent.

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.