No women at the Last Supper

One of these places is the odd one out: London, New York, Milan and Paris. They all have a lot in common, for a start they are all major fashion centres where the 'design elite' live, work and play, but now one of them stands out above all others.

The advertising watchdog in Milan has recently decided it would not allow a poster campaign that parodys Da Vinci's Last Supper, showing a nearly all female cast in the same positions as the original painting depicting Christ's last supper with his deciples.

The only male in the photo is in the position of John, the person in the painting believed to actually be Mary Magdalane (the wife of christ?) by the Da Vinci Code writer Dan Brown.

This is a world gone mad, a poster that acts as a testiment to the importance of women in the world (regardless of whether you believe the Dan Brown account) is banned when posters of women in nothing but a G-String and men in tight boxer shorts or 'just a pair of shoes' is allowed.

It is almost as funny as the massive outcry over Jerry Springer the Opera being shown on BBC TWO, except this has more of a valid argument you can't just NOT look at a poster but you can turn off the TV if you don't want to see it.

The basic fundemental fact is that how is a poster of fully clothed, well dressed women making a positive statement worse than near naked people making a statement about being nearly naked?


Original story found: Media Guardian
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