Movie Ban Policy at BYU

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PROVO - Administrators at the Mormon-run Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah have announced that they will not allow the film Wonder Woman to be shown anywhere near their campus. Citing the unrealistic portrayal of women in roles they are constitutionally unsuited for is of concern to school administrators, but they concede the main reason is that Wonder Woman has "bare shoulders" which are not in accordance with the gospel.

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Flaunting Church dress standards with bare shoulders will not be tolerated, administrators say.
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Say it ain't so!

But really... this is a joke right?
Otherwise just count me speechless is disgust.
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Lithium Sunset wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:08 am Say it ain't so!

But really... this is a joke right?
Otherwise just count me speechless is disgust.
The truly sad part is our inability to determine if it is a joke or not.
Reading can severely damage your ignorance.
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In the 70's I was drooling over Wonder Woman!

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I Wonder if they had banned the TV show back then?
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Korihor wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2017 11:04 am
Lithium Sunset wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:08 am Say it ain't so!

But really... this is a joke right?
Otherwise just count me speechless is disgust.
The truly sad part is our inability to determine if it is a joke or not.
I believe that phenomenon is known as Poe's Law
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moksha wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2017 2:33 amCiting the unrealistic portrayal of women in roles they are constitutionally unsuited for is of concern to school administrators
I know too well the futility of trying to explain things like the difference between fictional DC Amazons and female homo sapiens.
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Diana should just go down there and kick...their...butts.
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Flaunting Church dress standards
I think the word you're searching for is flouting. Flaunting has a virtually opposite definition.
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LSOF wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2017 11:20 pm
Flaunting Church dress standards
I think the word you're searching for is flouting. Flaunting has a virtually opposite definition.
Good catch. Flaunting at BYU would probably involve the young women wearing pioneer dresses with French braided hair to their Church History and Obedience class. That BYU administrator clearly meant flouting.
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