For fuck’s sake.
It hasn’t even been a week since luxe fashion giant Chanel were hit in the headlines by their own stupidly insensitive $1325 boomerang. A few days later, a bar in Arlington, Virginia mindlessly spruiked a $20 ‘Digeridoo Shooter’ drink special that offered punters the chance to shot alcohol out of a sacred Indigenous Australian wind instrument.
Now, in the latest instance of ‘indigenous culture being exploited for purposes of whitebread hedonism’, a gay porn studio has gone and used a didgeridoo as a sex toy for a film.
The film in question, titled ‘Didgeridoo Me’, follows the story of a man being woken from a nap by his friend loudly playing the instrument. Incensed by rage, the disgruntled sleepyhead seizes the five-foot wooden artefact and proceeds to ‘punish’ his pal by penetrating him with it.
Men.com, the studio behind this next-level cultural faux pas, stated in the film’s description that: “Didgeridoos create a one-of-a-kind sound, and can reach deep into one’s ass.”
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Aussie writer Laurence Barber had something a little more poignant to say about it: “It’s two white performers using an instrument invented by and culturally significant to Aboriginal Australians as a sex toy.
“It’s honestly just horrifyingly offensive.”
Unsurprisingly, the film has triggered similar responses after a handful of clips spread online, with one Twitter user commenting “So no one is going to mention the fact that this is incredibly racist and culturally offensive? Don’t laugh, get angry.” Another user expressed sheer astonishment that “porn actually managed to cross a line.”
Which, to be frank, seems like a slight understatement.
Men.com is yet to comment.
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Source: Daily Mail
Feature image: Daily Mail
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