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[apocalypsos]

Spotted on IMDb ...

Religious conservatives and family-values groups are planning to wage a battle against Fox Searchlight's Kinsey, about the pioneering sex researcher, when the movie opens in limited release on Friday. In a statement on Wednesday, Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America charged that the movie "lionized" a man whose "proper place is with Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele or your average Hollywood horror flick mad scientist." Knight went on to assert that Kinsey "was the godfather of the homosexual activist movement, the campaign to mainstream pornography, and even the campaign to strike down abortion laws." The youth group Generation Life, composed of "virgins and renewed virgins," announced that it would picket theaters showing the film. And the conservative WorldNetDaily.com has taken aim at the movie in the current issue of its monthly magazine Whistleblower, in which it charges that Kinsey transformed America "in five decades from the Leave It to Beaver innocence of the 1950s to today's wanton, 'anything-goes' sexual anarchy." (EDIT: I believe I should add here that with a dirty enough mind and a slight shift in punctuation, there is no real difference between leave-it-to-beaver innocence and "anything goes" sexual anarchy". I'm just sayin'. ANOTHER EDIT: Okay, not much of a difference. ;))

And, you know, Finding Neverland is coming out this weekend and I'm going to go if I hit a word quota for NaNoWriMo that I'm happy with, but I'm horribly tempted to go see Kinsey if it means annoying protesting religious conservatives. And maybe they could question my sex life. That could be amusing. *evil cackle*

And what the hell is "renewed virgin" supposed to mean, anyway? (Note: That was a rhetorical question. I know what stupid excuses they'd give for being "renewed" virgins. Nobody needs to give me an explanation of the term, but thanks anyway.) I'd just like to get into an argument with a really nutty protester who's not half as virginal as I am. ;)

EDIT: Shot shows promise as male contraceptive -- Oh, and I'm sure that since guys can't get pregnant, that shot'll get passed out like it's friggin' candy. *glares*

HEY, I FOUND ANOTHER EDIT UNDER THE COUCH CUSHIONS!: There are protestors out by the street, and I have no idea who they are or what they're protesting or, for that matter, which building they're protesting. The curiosity, it kills me dead. *resists the urge to leave work to go out and ask, since New Bossman already said no*

Comments

[aberrantangels]

I'm surprised you didn't say something about

Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America

I mean, seriously, what the technicolor frell is up with that? "Robert" doesn't sound like a woman's name to me, concerned or otherwise, and somebody ought to ask him about that shit.

"renewed virgins"

[casapazzo.livejournal.com]

Seriously, dude. Like, who do they think they're kidding?

I'm not all that interested in Kinsey, but I was sort of considering seing it b/c it's Liam...now I may just have to make sure I do.

[silverhill.livejournal.com]

a man whose "proper place is with Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele

*jaw hits floor*

Because when it comes to evil, telling people sex is OK is right up there with torturing Jews.

I'd say I fear for humanity, but someone that delusional can't be human.

[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

Robert Knight doesn't sound like your typical member of "Concerned Women for America", what with not being a woman and all. Maybe they're so deeply entrenched in this thing that they need a man to do all their leading and talking for them.

OK, now I'm really scared.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I read up on Mengele when I was studying what he used to do to the twin children that came in on the trains. Kinsey has a loooooooooooooong way to go in the evil department to even be mentioned in the same breath as Mengele. *gags*

[penknife.livejournal.com]

Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America charged that the movie "lionized" a man whose "proper place is with Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele or your average Hollywood horror flick mad scientist."

Whoever brings up the Nazis first loses, right?

[gypsyjr.livejournal.com]

Your icon is oh-so-appropriate.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh. Godwin's, isn't it?

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was the godfather of the homosexual activist movement, the campaign to mainstream pornography, and even the campaign to strike down abortion laws

Uh. And in today's Brave New BizarroAmerika, these are BAD things? Sheesh...

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, remember, sex is a bad thing, which you can tell because if you do it right, it ends in babies and/or orgasms.

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

Now I may have to go see Kinsey. Which honestly looks to be a boring movie.

Damnit.

[dawning-star.livejournal.com]

a man whose "proper place is with Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele

*blinks*

Sex is now synonymous with the Holocaust? Jesus H. Christ on a fucking pogo-stick, what reality is this asshole from?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

A reality where he doesn't get laid. Or won't, after that remark.

[loopychew.livejournal.com]

Godwin's Law!

[loopychew.livejournal.com]

Dammit, beat out. ;_;

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

If you're interested in the review of a fan who's already seen it, look here. Beware, spoilers ahoy!

[dawning-star.livejournal.com]

Since sex is teh ebil !!!1!!1!, I don't think that's much of an issue for him. The gene pool will hopefully be spared.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Oh, gee, so nice to see the "religious conservatives" comparing Kinsey with Mengele. How many of those religions are non-Gentile, I wonder? They're not just making Kinsey worse than he was, they're diminishing the evil that Mengele perpetrated. But I doubt I need to tell anyone here that.

I love how he says Kinsey caused all those changes in sexual attitudes from the Eden we had in the 50s, when from my understanding, all he did was document what was already there.

Yes, people were gay in the 50's, too, my "religious conservative" friends. And for many, many years before that.

I hate people sometimes.

-blue

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Hurray for orgasms!

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

THANK you!

That was my very first thought when I read that!

[lots42.livejournal.com]

This is the first I've heard of Kinsey.

Now I want to see more.

Anyone accused of causing so much sex can't be that bad.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Check out this take:
http://mousewords.blogspot.com/2004/11/conservative-groups-denounce-kinsey.html

[adjectivegirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, today I'm all out of tolerance. Who the fuck do these fucking fucks think they are, comparing the sexual "revolution" (which is rifuckingdiculous, because Kinsey discovered people were already pretty randy in the motherfreakin' 50s) to the Holocaust?

They can officially suck my left one.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Whee! Thanks for posting this, or I would never have known about it I bet. (you got a lovely shoutout in my journal b/c of it).
Indiana U is my alma mater, and the Kinsey Institute is old news there. We are rather proud of it and surprised that more people don't know more about it. I am definitely going to see it as soon as I figure out where it's at. (You'd think in DC it would be easy to find...maybe Bush's conservative minions aren't allowing it in the theaters...?)

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

I've fucking overused this icon today. MENGELE??? WTF???

Dammit, there's no WAY that movie's showing around here...