"Farrell's Nude Scene Axed"

You know, this is very old news but I'm still pissed about it:

A nude scene featuring Colin Farrell has been cut from upcoming movie A Home At The End Of The World because the actor is "too well hung", The Sun reports today.

Apparently the naked scenes featuring the Irish bad boy caused such a stir amongst test audiences that the director decided to leave them out of the film altogether.

A source told the tabloid: "All you could hear were gasps when Colin appeared in his full-frontal pose. The women were over-excited and the men looked really uncomfortable. It was such a sight it made it difficult to concentrate on the plot, so the decision was made to get rid of it."

A blatant goddamned double standard if I ever heard one. Women were "overexcited"? Men "looked really uncomfortable"? WHO CARES? You think women are never uncomfortable seeing female actresses fully nude or in explicit sex scenes, and do you think men don't get overexcited by those scenes?

I’ve never once heard or read about a director concerned that female nudity in his or her movies would make female audience members uncomfortable. It’s a non-issue when it comes to women, but God forbid we make straight dudes uncomfortable. ::eye roll::

And so what if the penis distracts from the plot a little; people will get over it. I’ve seen plenty of movies where something in a scene detracts from the plot for a second but I get over it and my mind gets back on track.

Now, back to the male discomfort in the test audience. WTF? For Christ's sake, if by the time you're a grown man you can't even see another man naked on a film screen for a few seconds you've got serious issues. These are the emotionally stunted people the director is pandering to? He's letting these weirdoes influence his editing decisions?

Why is it that movie audiences are content to watch scenes of violent domestic abuse, suffering war-torn communities, or two hours of blood-curdling guts and gore but when it comes to a nude male body (something everyone over a certain age has seen in one way or another) they freak out?

I wonder whether or not the director even considered that the audience gasps might have been a positive thing. What if viewers were simply surprised that a well-known actor had the guts to show his penis to the world. Hell, since showing wiener is apparently such a big deal you'd think the director and Farrell would be commended rather than censored.