Here's Rob at an antiwar rally in Los Angeles just before we entered Iraq. Rob is ordering cheese on his Whopper.
Posted on 12/02/2004 11:39:14 AM PST by Mr. Silverback
“Never make judgments.” That’s what scientist Alfred Kinsey tells his research assistant very early in the new film about his life. Kinsey, as you know, was all about nonjudgmentalism. Throughout his career researching the sexual habits of Americans, his goal was to free society from the constraints of what the movie calls “morality disguised as fact.” And like its subject, the film attempts to be nonjudgmental—or, at least, that’s the ploy.
Three scenes exemplify the supposed nonjudgmentalism. In the first, Kinsey tells his wife, nicknamed “Mac,” that he’s had sex with one of his male researchers. Though she’s devastated, he explains that it’s only “social restraints” that prevent people from acting on their attractions. She retorts that maybe social restraints are necessary to keep people from getting hurt. It’s a moment of rare honesty and insight—which doesn’t last long. The next thing we know, Kinsey is giving the same researcher permission to have sex with Mac, and this, apparently, makes everything okay.
In the second scene, Kinsey and a colleague interview a man, Kenneth Braun, who has had sex with an astonishing number of partners of various genders, ages, and species. When he starts to discuss his pedophilic experiences, Kinsey’s fellow researcher storms out. Braun says that he thought Kinsey’s researchers would be impartial, to which Kinsey enigmatically replies, “Sometimes it’s difficult.” But he adds that “no one should ever be hurt” by sex, leading Braun to call him a “square.”
In the third scene, Kinsey is so distraught over a loss of research funding that he ends up in the bathroom mutilating himself. When Mac discovers him, he shows her letters from people who have written to beg him for help and laments that now he can’t help them. For such a hard-boiled movie, the scene is surprisingly maudlin. And its message is clear: Kinsey is a martyr to the cause of truth and compassion.
Now the facts: Kinsey, as his biographers report, had been mutilating himself for years as a result of a sexual appetite so voracious and uncontrollable that it led him into ever more bizarre practices.
And the real Kinsey didn’t seem to care who got hurt by his own activities or those of others. The prototype for Braun was a pedophile named Rex King, one of several pedophiles whose “research” Kinsey used. Kinsey’s defenders rationalize that just because Kinsey used such data, it does not mean he condoned the activity. None of them that I know of have ever explained why Kinsey wrote to King, “I congratulate you on the research spirit which has led you to collect data over these many years.”
From this repulsive data was born the pervasive myth that children are sexual beings from infancy. (It’s worth noting, as well, that Kinsey’s research methods were flawed in many other ways, another fact that his supporters gloss over as much as possible.)
This is the man that Hollywood has chosen to honor? And make no mistake, the film honors Kinsey. Now, I doubt many of you will be seeing the film—good. But your neighbors and friends are seeing it and are discussing it. And you need to help set them straight. Kinsey does not deserve to be anyone’s hero.
Good Grief. Talk about criminal activity...
http://www.inoohr.org/kinsey.htm
(And Hollywood makes him heroic!?)
Sounds like something Uncle Screwtape could have written to his nephew Wormwood.
What's wrong with this sentence?
Mr. Braun has discovered some other genders besides the basic two?
Male to female. (gender #3)
Female to male. (gender #4)
Tab "A" = Gender #1
Slot "B" = Gender # 2
It doesn't much matter what else is going on physiologically.
Have you read Stalin's NY Times Obituary?
However, folks like Kinsey have no respect for God's authority. From such a warped perspective, more than two genders are possible.
Stalin's obituary was made into a movie?
Well, technically, not a movie, but certainly a favorable portrayal.
Actually, I looked at my reply and thought that I should have been clearer as well.
I was speaking in only in terms of Kinsey's warped sexual predilections. He and his "research subjects" were only interested in sexual gratification. Procreation did not enter into the equation at all. Thus, internal physiology is immaterial. Tab "A" and Slot "B" is all that mattered.
Aids?
Thanks goodness for thre VCR and DVD player. Tonight, hubbie & I will be be watching one of the above movies with our 8 year old son. I may try to get them to watch "It's a Wonderful Life" though, as we've already watched "Miracle" once this season. It's a Thanksgiving Day tradition around here.
Damn right!
That little, human stool pisses the hell out of me when he starts rambling on about Micky Mantle.
Crystal couldn't carry 'The Mick's' jock.
Here's Rob at an antiwar rally in Los Angeles just before we entered Iraq. Rob is ordering cheese on his Whopper.
I wouldn't say Nobody. Arabs certainly might. After all he was their hero for killing so many Jews. Plenty of neo-nazi skin head types out there as well.
But there's a lot more who would portray Uncle Joe (and Uncle Ho) as merely misunderstood patriots, regardless of how many people they butchered.
That was enough to gag a maggot. I guess the Old Gray Lady as been the Old Red Whore a lot longer than I thought. Barf!
A lot of gays are pedophiles and a lot of pedophiles are gay.....Both are sexual deviants........Media wants to destroy Christianity because of the absolutes....Liberals want the freedom to have NOTHING deemed evil.......
So did the Marquis de sade
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