NEWS: Conservatives: Say No to "Kinsey"

CULTURE: Conservatives: Say No to "Kinsey"

Conservative activist groups are outraged at the movie Kinsey for its glorification of the man who sparked the sexual revolution. Calling the movie propaganda, there are plans by several conservative groups to picket theatres showing the film.



Starring Liam Neeson as the famed professor, the movie opens in the next few weeks nationwide. Bill Condon, the film's writer-director, has described Kinsey as a "complex man [...] in some ways damaged beyond repair." Condon tries to portray the good and bad of Kinsey and wants people to form their own opinions.



Despite the portrayal of Kinsey as a flawed adulterer, conservatives still think that the movie praises him too much by omitting details about an interest in pedophilia and exaggerated findings.



Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women of America's Culture & Family Institute, had this to say about Kinsey:

Yes, Knight compared a maniacal Nazi doctor who performed depraved and mutilating experiments to a professor who did some of the most interesting work on sexuality in this century.

A reviewer for Focus on the Family also stated that:

I plan on seeing that movie this weekend. This sort of shit drives me insane, because if they looked at what Kinsey's studies proved, they would know that they showed that teaching people about sex makes them smarter about sex. The whole thing was that because they didn't know what they were doing, people were doing potentially dangerous things in bed. Not using condoms, using the rhythm method of birth control, whatever else you can think of.

Oh, and Robert Knight was that guy they interviewed a year or two ago on The Daily Show who was going around protesting the Popeye and Bluto commercial Minute Maid ran, saying it implied that Popeye and Bluto were gay and that Minute Maid was promoting a homosexual agenda, forever tainting his ability to enjoy orange juice. I don't know why he's even interviewed by anyone of authority after that shit.

maybe i'm out of the loop, but when did homosexuals get an "agenda"? why don't these people picket something worth protesting, like the re-election of a war criminal.

Well...homosexuals in general do have an agenda. To be accepted by society. Possibly even to be allowed to marry. To these people, that is sickening and horrifying, and I'm sure they think that if they give in, homosexuals will then, as a group, try to molest their children. Because Lord knows it's only homosexuals who do that, and NEVER little girls who get molested. (Can anyone explain to me why the media and public at large act like it's always little boys?)

They're not protesting that 'cos they're the people that voted the war criminal in...

Whoa, hold on now. I voted for our president and plan on seeing the movie. Comparing those people to me is like me comparing you to someone like Michael Moore. Relax people... By the way, Lego, where did you get war criminal, John Kerry was not elected...

I don't get where either of you are getting these things, but whatever.

Are you implying that fighting for your country makes you a war criminal? Odd.

And the director's name is Condon for Christ's sake. We don't believe in condons.

Is this 1954 or 2004? Did I step in some type of sexual time-loop that sent me back 50 years? Ever since a boobie popped out in a haltime show (which the show itself should have gotten fined by how crappy it was - who was supposed to be entertained by that??), it seems like we've been going backwards as a culture sexually. What's next? Gays no longer on broadcast TV again? Abortion to be illegal again?

(ow wait - those two things have already started... )

Must the opening of this movie be cast as yet another battle in the liberal vs. conservative war? Who cares if a few ultra-conservatives plan to protest this movie?

Well hell.......if Conservative Activists are going to boycott the movie, I'm going to buy TWO tickets.....just because.

What is it about Americans love of war and distaste for sex, well i guess i know the answer, but for a country that believes it is the leader of the free democratic world they are very affraid of strong independent women

A movie about a research study that helped us understand a basic biological function is more controversial than two hours of a bloody, gory crucifixion shown in slow motion?

Oh. Wait. But that movie was about Jeebus and is, therefore, exempt from the "no sex, violence, drugs, music, dancing, alcohol, laughter" rule.

Maybe it would be more interesting to look at exactly who he was and how he 'proved' his claims...

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I've always had a soft spot for Dr. Kinsey, if only because he was a fellow Bowdoin alumnus. However, I've read enough about him to know that his work was seriously flawed from the scientific standpoint. It is also clear that he was bisexual and that his work had a political agenda to it. Certainly many of his conclusions, such as ten percent of the population being gay, needs to be revisited. Anybody seen any reviews of the flick?

I keep coming back here to read this post. Thank you, Mr Grey, for providing me with a laugh.

I'm sure that some of Kinsey's work needs to be revised, since it's pretty obvious that some of his work was not entirely objective. However, based on my own anecdotal experience, I'd say that his estimate of 10% of the population being gay is pretty short of the mark.

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[Edited on Nov 11, 2004 by aj]

Well, when Michael Moore gets elected to Congress or gets his pet policies written into the Democratic platform, your argument may be something other than howlingly specious...

Well, the way I see it is if they are going to boycott and protest this movie, then they should boycott and protest against the actors that were in it, I mean, the film wouldn't have been made with 0 actors would it?

So... They should start by boycotting & protesting against Liam Neeson....and his films like... oh I don't know....

Schinder's List?

Yeah. Those right wing conservative fucktards are, in actuality, jew hating nazi's, or at least today's equivalent.

Good Game Logic!

Janet Jackson's boob is the new flux capacitor.

These are the same assholes who forced CBS not to air their documentary on Reagan because its figurative tongue wasn't far enough up his ass.

They're a bunch of fucking morons who, yes, do want to take us back to 1954 notions of sexuality because they have the mistaken belief that the Donna Reed show is an historical account rather than fictionalized idealization. In point of fact teen pregnancy rates are lower today than they were in the 50's, women whose scumbag husbands beat them up no longer have to just accept it, people who get married for the wrong reasons can now become divorced and homosexuals don't have to repress their most basic desires for fear of being ostracized. Oh yeah, bring me back to those glorious 50's.

This is Citizen...err...I mean Commandant...um, that is...PRESIDENT Bush. I want you to know that if Kinsey had never existed there would be no sexually transmitted diseases, abortion, unwanted pregnancy, or anything else unpleasant. Now go back to your nice comfortable lives and pretend there's no pain or suffering in the world.

By the way, "someone" took away the story. The link no longer works.

Forget it.

[Edited on Nov 11, 2004 by aj]

This is relatively minor, as far as uptight people with "morals" go.
Read this to hear about something truly frightening!!!!