Thailand bans transgender movie

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Thailand bans transgender movie

AP
Published Dec 24 2010

Thailand's National Film Board has rejected a movie about a transgender father struggling to raise two children, a ban that the director says highlights the conservative side of Thai society despite its freewheeling reputation.

The board ruled this week that the film, Insects in the Backyard, cannot not be shown in Thailand because it is immoral and pornographic.

Director Tanwarin Sukkhapisit told The Associated Press on Friday that the scenes deemed offensive by the board were crucial to the story line and cannot be cut.

The director says she plans to appeal the decision.

The ban is the latest example of Thailand's look-the-other way tolerance running afoul of the government's efforts to maintain traditional Buddhist values of modesty and manners.

 

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The ban is the latest example of Thailand's look-the-other way tolerance running afoul of the government's efforts to maintain traditional Buddhist values of modesty and manners.

Thailand is a thoroughly stupid cuntry, no wonder they always upping the wrong horse.

Their faked conservatism sucks because the men and women in the street accepted that and they even have a term for that called phoo-mia, literally meaning tarpo-charbor but when it comes to bleating from their high horses, they even out-lawed prostitution.

Which cuntry has more callgirls per capita, tsk...
Or cross-dressing monks ???

Tonychat would be able to explain this anomaly in detail...:p:p:p