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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2004-12-03 12:50 pm

And a pair of linkies here, from [community profile] metaquotes

First the article

Mrs. Ray was introduced by her husband, Colonel Ronald Ray, who grabbed the audience’s attention by announcing that the United States “lost the most important war of the twentieth century.” He was referring not to Vietnam, where he served, but to the sexual revolution.

Yes, of course. People are starving in the streets because of the sexual revolution.

A recent newsletter of the abstinence-education group Why know? compared the publication of “The Kinsey Report,” in 1948, to the attacks of September 11th, and labelled Kinseyism “fifty years of cultural terrorism.”

Y'know, I was just reading how they think humans have 24 pairs of chromosomes instead of 23. I hate to say this, but I'm not sure they count as a reliable source - and the hyperbole isn't convincing me.

She has served as a consultant to the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services and was given seven hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars by Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department to study pornography.

Yes, well, somebody has to look at all those dirty pictures. I'm just glad it was her and not me!

More recently, she has been active in the rise of abstinence-only education; in June, her colleagues gave her an Abstie Award for lifetime achievement.

I already linked about how abstinence-only education doesn't work. This allows me to be petty: The Abstie? *laughs* That's the stupidest name I've ever heard!

Last week, Reisman testified at a congressional hearing about the dangers of pornography addiction, saying that police should be required to collect evidence of pornography consumption at any crime scene.
Because they just don't have enough to do as it is. Does this woman have a basic grasp of the concepts of priorities or common sense?

Reisman also believes that Kinsey died not from heart failure but from what she calls “brutal, repetitive self-abuse.”

Masturbated to death? I don't even want to know how she'd know this.

In her research on gays, for instance, she has written that the “recruitment techniques” of homosexuals rival those of the Marine Corps.

See the following link.

Reisman also endorses a book called “The Pink Swastika,” which challenges the “myths” that gays were victimized in Nazi Germany. The Nazi Party and the Holocaust itself, she writes, were largely the creation of “the German homosexual movement.”

Um... right. I can't even respond to this. I am honestly at a loss for words here.

“Idealistic ‘gay youth’ groups are being formed and staffed in classrooms nationwide by recruiters too similar to those who formed the original ‘Hitler youth.’”

What. The. Everlasting. FUCK?

“One doesn’t measure American sexual habits,” she said. “That’s not a science.”

Of course not, dearie.

And now the reply from Metaquotes!

Seriously, read the article.

[identity profile] interactiveleaf.livejournal.com 2004-12-03 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
As I was reading it, my first impulse was to laugh out loud, but that was quickly squelched by the realization that these people weren't parodists.

Although I don't think I can come up with better than 'brutal, repetitive self-abuse.'

[identity profile] queenmargot.livejournal.com 2004-12-06 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
D'ya think that people like this are secretly sex addicts who ought to anonymously be writing to Dan Savage? I mean, you picked up on it too, but being offered so much money to study PORN? What a personal crusade, just because she's too embarassed to say she secretly likes porn.

Also, I found you through one of the linguistics communities. Mind if I add you?

[identity profile] interactiveleaf.livejournal.com 2004-12-03 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
As I was reading it, my first impulse was to laugh out loud, but that was quickly squelched by the realization that these people weren't parodists.

Although I don't think I can come up with better than 'brutal, repetitive self-abuse.'

[identity profile] queenmargot.livejournal.com 2004-12-06 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
D'ya think that people like this are secretly sex addicts who ought to anonymously be writing to Dan Savage? I mean, you picked up on it too, but being offered so much money to study PORN? What a personal crusade, just because she's too embarassed to say she secretly likes porn.

Also, I found you through one of the linguistics communities. Mind if I add you?