Nor can we say that men are more interested in sport -- even though it is true
The above little lot of prohibitions arose from a feminist group who sound like a bunch of aggressive lesbians to my mind. Worldwide chocolate vendor Nestle invested its advertising dollars in the assumption that there ARE some ways in which men differ from women and that a greater interest in sport is one of those differences. They of course wanted to sell more chocolate and thought that the well-known feminine love of chocolate was "excluding" (horrors!) men. So they advertised one of their products in a way that was likely to appeal to men -- by associating it with sport.
But then the whiners with nothing better to do started up. Little girls are having their clitorises cut out with bits of broken glass throughout much of the Islamic world and the so-called feminists are worrying about how chocolate is advertised! Media excerpt:
"Confectionery giant Nestle is under fire in Britain over chocolate bar adverts suggesting football is "not for girls". The company is promoting a bar called Footie with wrapper slogans including: "It's definitely not for girls", "no passes to lasses" and "no wenches on the benches". Wrappers also contain an image of a woman holding a handbag framed in a no-entry road sign. The Women's Sports Foundation said such advertising undermined attempts to encourage girls to play more sport and improve fitness levels in teenage girls."
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Famous Play from the Shakespearean Era Censored
One of the contemporaries of Shakespeare was Christopher ("Kit") Marlowe. He is sometimes in fact held to be the REAL author of Shakespeare's plays. And, like Shakespeare, he understood people pretty well -- which is why some of his plays are still popular and are still performed. A recent production of one of his plays was altered, however. You'll never guess why: To avoid offending Muslims. Press excerpt:
"The burning of the Koran was "smoothed over", he said, so that it became just the destruction of "a load of books" relating to any culture or religion. That made it more powerful, they claimed. Members of the audience also reported that key references to Muhammad had been dropped, particularly in the passage where Tamburlaine says that he is "not worthy to be worshipped". In the original Marlowe writes that Muhammad "remains in hell"....
Charles Nicholl, the author of The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe, said it was wrong to tamper with Marlowe because he asked "uncomfortable and confrontational questions - particularly aimed at those that held dogmatic, religious views". He added: "Why should Islam be protected from the questioning gaze of Marlowe? Marlowe stands for provocative questions. This is a bit of an insult to him."
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If I were a Christian I think I would suspect that Hell is the present dwelling place of Mohammed too. And if Muslims can burn the world's most burnt book -- the Bible -- why cannot a Westerner burn a Koran? I personally think that the unending murderous deeds that are done in the name of Islam and with the apparent approval of much of the Islamic world should cause Islam to be treated with LESS respect, not more. So I think we should be listening to Marlowe, not censoring him. It may be worth noting that previous productions of the play have not seen the need to alter the powerful original story.
I wonder when our oppressors will get around to demanding that all copies of Marlowe's play be removed from public libraries?
