Thus
thundered Russian lawmaker Vitaley Milonev, demanding that the latest
cinematic incarnation of Beauty and the Beast be banned in Russia for its
apparent gay propaganda. Well, who would
have believed it, I mean I never realised that Disney, the production company,
went in for that sort of thing. Times must be changing. It may have come as a bit of a surprise to
most of us as well to discover that Beauty and the Beast has, apparently, been
infiltrated with subtle scenes of gay propaganda aimed at subverting modern
society and… er...er….
Apparently
there is a mildly gay moment that seems to relate to the hero's manservant
rather fancying his boss. I think. On
balance, it’s probably fair to say it not quite plumbing the deep and dark depths of
dangerously polluting sexual innuendo that, in Mr Milonev’s fevered imagination
at least, could cast a generation of young Russians into some form of moral
turpitude from which not even Vladimir Putin could rescue them.
However, to prevent viewers succumbing to such a calamitous doom, it has been given a
"16 and over" age restriction. Disaster averted.
It
does all sound rather shocking and I'm not sure why it's hasn't been banned in
more right thinking countries. Surely Turkey too should follow suite, after all
they banned Eurovision one year because of a gay kiss that was, informed
sources reliably report, probably responsible for the 2016 attempted putsch
(honest - it was on CNN). But perhaps the news hasn't reached President (for
life) Erdogan yet because he has locked up every journalist in his country (for
life) and replaced the Internet with an abacus.
But
back to Beauty and the Beast being age restricted for its gay overtones. No
doubt the ever jocular Mr Putin will appreciate the irony of this. After all,
following his 2009 Siberian holiday when he rode a horse bare chested, he
unintentionally became a gay icon himself. A case of Beauty on the Beast?
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