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Lebanon's economy ministry says it has asked the country's security agency to ban the 2017 Wonder Woman movie because its lead actress, Gal Gadot, is an Israeli.
A senior security official says no formal request has been received yet, and that the ban would require a recommendation from a six-ministry-member committee.
[...] Lebanon is officially at war with Israel and has a decades-old law that boycotts Israeli products and bars Lebanese citizens from traveling or having contacts with Israelis.
Supporters of the boycott took to social media to campaign against the movie.
@TimesofIsrael Please don't watch the movie wonder woman, boycott.
The star gal gadot is a pro-IDF Zionist who herself served in the terrorist organization pic.twitter.com/fvWSHRIx2w
— Tee (@boyzinthehoood) May 29, 2017@GalGadot you showing your support just shows you are as evil as the Israel army baby killers # boycott #WonderWoman
— Zam m (@zam18028526) May 30, 2017Israel is sick..and the new Wonder Woman supports it! Boycott Israel! https://t.co/QJ1FCGzfkh
— Nick Littlejohn💿 (@nickmlittlejohn) April 10, 2016
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @03:06PM (8 children)
Its funny how conservatives now really care about what artists think.
That guy was a butthurt fool. What he meant for the charging bull to represent and what society decided the charging bull represents are two different things. That's how art works. His beef isn't with the girl. Its with how wallstreet's "greed is good" behavior has corrupted his intent. The girl statue was a reaction to what the charging bull embodies today, not his naive idealism of 25 years ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @03:36PM (1 child)
You sexist liberal hypocrite; you never cared about art, unless it pushed your ideological agenda.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @03:47PM
You're pushing your own ideological agenda. You see any excuse to whine about feminism, then jump on it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @03:41PM
The butthurt is not over. [nbcnews.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @03:43PM (2 children)
Why bother trying to understand what an artist was attempting to express, when you can just re-interpret his work as what you want to express, amirite? Why bother engaging in the introspection that an artist is trying to induce? Why bother trying on someone else's thoughts when you can just bask all day in the comforting caress of your own world view all the time?
Now, I finally understand judicial activism: Who cares what the Founders meant when they wrote the Constitution; the only thing that matters is how it can be re-interpreted to further your particular political goals.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday May 31 2017, @04:50PM (1 child)
One could argue that if it isn't obvious what the artist's intent is from first seeing it, they're not a very good artist.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday May 31 2017, @05:14PM
You could argue that, but you would be wrong. Most things that art is intended to represent are not expressible in words. ... Well, except for the textual arts, and even then there's a difference between reporting accurately and art.
That said, most art is, and must be, ambiguous. There's no other way. And that means that even the artist will see his works differently at different times.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday May 31 2017, @09:08PM
"his beef"
hehehehe
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Thursday June 01 2017, @05:27AM
Also, this bit of advertising gets to stay up for a year (or perhaps even longer) because New York City allowed it to. Charging Bull was created and put up without the sanction of the city government. It's still in public view today because the public wanted it there. Fearless Girl is there because someone greased the right palms.