Kinsey (2004)
I watched half of the movie in my Human Sexuality class, and the other half in my apartment while Radix was over. It came on at like midnight, and I didn't mind watching it again. It was a really good movie.
However, it's inspired a rant. If you wanna read on, do so at your own risk.
First of all, I'm sympathetic, if not just a tad annoyed, by the level of discomfort that sexuality brings to the average college student. There were funny parts to the movie, yes, but every scene that depicted any remotely sexual implication caused my classmates to laugh and make jokes. At the risk of sounding arrogant, I felt pleased with myself that I was above laughing along with them throughout most of the movie.
For those of you who don't know, Alfred Kinsey was a very liberal bisexual. In the movie, he had sex with one of his male assistants, and he is rumored, according to Wikipedia, to have had group sex with his graduate students. Though he violated probably more ethics than any psychology researcher in history, right next to Watson and Rayner, the benefits of his research, in my opinion, far outweighed the issues raised by being a teacher who has sex with students even though he's married.
The point of mentioning all of this is to express my annoyance with the protest to the homosexuality in the movie. I remember hearing people yell "No, don't!" at the projector when the assistant was moving to kiss Kinsey. Admittedly, I felt a little uncomfortable myself, but I am almost certain that the discomfort resulted directly from the irrational protest the other students gave.
On a somewhat related note, I have a bus driver that requires males to give up their seats to females if there aren't enough seats on the bus and someone has to stand. I can almost guarantee that if I am forced to stand for a lady, that I won't do it graciously. Why should I? The motivation behind morality and feminism today is supposed to be equality, not taking things away from college students who are trying to get home and who arrived at the bus responsibly and on time. Women are equally capable of standing, and no idiotic ideals of chivalry or some pathetic hope for intercourse should blind an intelligent person of that fact.
That does not mean, however, that people should forego doing nice things for each other. Men can give up their seats for women, if they want to, but any woman that feels more entitled to sit than a man is more of a bigot than the man who denies the woman a seat. I would love it if I saw a woman get up to let a man sit down. Until then, I refuse to believe that there is truly any perception of "equality" among men and women, even if on such a subtle issue.
However, it's inspired a rant. If you wanna read on, do so at your own risk.
First of all, I'm sympathetic, if not just a tad annoyed, by the level of discomfort that sexuality brings to the average college student. There were funny parts to the movie, yes, but every scene that depicted any remotely sexual implication caused my classmates to laugh and make jokes. At the risk of sounding arrogant, I felt pleased with myself that I was above laughing along with them throughout most of the movie.
For those of you who don't know, Alfred Kinsey was a very liberal bisexual. In the movie, he had sex with one of his male assistants, and he is rumored, according to Wikipedia, to have had group sex with his graduate students. Though he violated probably more ethics than any psychology researcher in history, right next to Watson and Rayner, the benefits of his research, in my opinion, far outweighed the issues raised by being a teacher who has sex with students even though he's married.
The point of mentioning all of this is to express my annoyance with the protest to the homosexuality in the movie. I remember hearing people yell "No, don't!" at the projector when the assistant was moving to kiss Kinsey. Admittedly, I felt a little uncomfortable myself, but I am almost certain that the discomfort resulted directly from the irrational protest the other students gave.
On a somewhat related note, I have a bus driver that requires males to give up their seats to females if there aren't enough seats on the bus and someone has to stand. I can almost guarantee that if I am forced to stand for a lady, that I won't do it graciously. Why should I? The motivation behind morality and feminism today is supposed to be equality, not taking things away from college students who are trying to get home and who arrived at the bus responsibly and on time. Women are equally capable of standing, and no idiotic ideals of chivalry or some pathetic hope for intercourse should blind an intelligent person of that fact.
That does not mean, however, that people should forego doing nice things for each other. Men can give up their seats for women, if they want to, but any woman that feels more entitled to sit than a man is more of a bigot than the man who denies the woman a seat. I would love it if I saw a woman get up to let a man sit down. Until then, I refuse to believe that there is truly any perception of "equality" among men and women, even if on such a subtle issue.