A production Aladdin has been cancelled due to the unease over cultural insensitivity.
The world continues to be bonkers.
Itâs curious that no-one was able to explain why the decision was made. If wokeism (as opposed to âbeing wokeâ) exists outside the Right wingâs imagination, one of its characteristics is inability to reason.
Maybe people didnât like the name of the theatre group!
Not just in the wail:
Pantomime dames seen as transphobic and the genre is âheteronormativeâ.
Our village usually does a panto, and itâs a very gender-fluid affair - perhaps a part of the problem is that itâs not the right kind of gender fluidity, or because we know the straights are straight (mostly anyway) so it doesnât count.
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What utter bollocks.
What is wrong with a man dressing up as the panto dame and the principal boy being a woman? Surely it what we call entertainment, oh yes it is.
In my youth I played many parts in amateur panto and to see the delight, surprise, joy and every other emotion on children and adult faces in the audience was priceless and unforgettable.
I donât know or want to know what woke is but if it is behind this stupidity that is trying to cancel this fun family entertainment then the world has gone mad, oh yes it has.
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If itâs in The Mail, Peter, you can pretty much guarantee it isnât true (and you can identify which newspapers donât factcheck properly themselves by seeing if they repeat it).
See the discussion on âpropagandaâ in the Ukraine thread for more examples !
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Well, thatâs always a good starting point, weâd probably all agree â but in this case (ignoring the fulminations of the DM writer), we can see what was written by the person doing the cancellation!
Some achieve excellence in both, of course.
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I donât know - how did you take my post?
Unfortunate and unnecessary.
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Ah, in that case Iâm going to have to disagree.
To quote myself in another thread - Brits are an arrogant nation born of the fact that we mostly âwonâ the colonisation game. As a result we not only trample roughshod over the language of other cultures but we trample roughshod over their traditions as well., and we persist in thinking that they are somehow âinferiorâ.
Reappraisal of Aladdin is hardly news
Those who scoff at this [hello, Daily Mail] embody the right wing, unthinking, thug all too well.
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Billy,
Having not read the thread you referred to, but strange you feel that the majority of your fellow Brits would harbour that line of thought, my British friends and family never have.
At the risk of being contentious, shouldnât that be âEnglishâ not âBritsâ? 
Iâm not sure the Scots, Welsh or Irish look down on other nations of cultures.
On the wider issue, I think banning a pantomime is nuts. Particularly, as was mentioned above, with its very topical and positive transgender messages.
Ohhh, weâre being a bit edgy today 
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So you are telling me itâs not true ?
Iâm with porridge
It seems to me that the current generation is hell bent on removing from society what they consider as wrong doings of the past. History is what it is for good or bad and people today cannot be held responsible for forebears actions.
If enjoying a panto or reading a bedtime story to my grandchildren which more often than not is probably loosely based on the âcolonisation gameâ makes me an arrogant brit then i must be guilty as charged.
The oxford dictionary describes a pantomime as
âa theatrical entertainment, mainly for children, which involves music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy and is based on a fairy tale or nursery story, usually produced around Christmasâ.
Nothing more, nothing less.
In just a few posts this thread has turned into a right pantomime.
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Yes, I suspect that you have a point there.
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And the Welsh are thieves, the Irish are thick and the Scots are mean?
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having seen an Aladdin panto as a child⌠all I can remember is the fun and laughter⌠and that the thought of a magic lamp had me spellboundâŚ
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I think weâre - well, some of us - are looking to justify a decision which is claimed to be culturally sensitive but was in fact financial.
Put the clues together and use your little grey cells! Cheap tickets, draughty village hall, fuel prices going through the roof âŚ
It was cancelled because they couldnât afford the heating of the hall.
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