Mystech
11-12-04, 04:00 AM
NEW YORK (AP) -- Indignant conservative groups are protesting this week's opening of the film "Kinsey," denouncing it as propaganda seeking to glorify the researcher they blame for inspiring the sexual revolution.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/11/film.kinsey.protests.ap/index.html
This doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me. My first impulse was to ask “don’t they see how Ironic this is?” But then being a homosexual I know pretty well that conservatives just don’t understand irony. Anyhow, way to give this film a big PR boost and a modern day real-world thematic tie-in which can only serve to boost the film’s relevance and the potency of the story it tells! Moreover, thanks for reminding us you’re absolutely nuts:
Focus on the Family and its allies blame Kinsey for a host of ills -- including clearing a path for candid, comprehensive sex education programs espoused by organizations like the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States.
Yes, that’s right, they are blaming him for sex education and trying to pass that off as a bad thing. . . A friend of mine once said that trying to understand conservatives is like trying to shave a walrus. I’m not sure exactly how he meant that, but on a theoretical level, at least, I’m willing to agree with him.
I don’t think that these people are really so upset with the movie, or even with the man or his research, they’re just upset about the last 50 years or so, and the fact that they can’t put women in burkas, and deny that it’s normal to have sexual desires.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/11/film.kinsey.protests.ap/index.html
This doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me. My first impulse was to ask “don’t they see how Ironic this is?” But then being a homosexual I know pretty well that conservatives just don’t understand irony. Anyhow, way to give this film a big PR boost and a modern day real-world thematic tie-in which can only serve to boost the film’s relevance and the potency of the story it tells! Moreover, thanks for reminding us you’re absolutely nuts:
Focus on the Family and its allies blame Kinsey for a host of ills -- including clearing a path for candid, comprehensive sex education programs espoused by organizations like the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States.
Yes, that’s right, they are blaming him for sex education and trying to pass that off as a bad thing. . . A friend of mine once said that trying to understand conservatives is like trying to shave a walrus. I’m not sure exactly how he meant that, but on a theoretical level, at least, I’m willing to agree with him.
I don’t think that these people are really so upset with the movie, or even with the man or his research, they’re just upset about the last 50 years or so, and the fact that they can’t put women in burkas, and deny that it’s normal to have sexual desires.