Sick
July 28, 2006
Priscilla, over at the latest "save Western Civilization" site Culture Campaign makes note of how North Carolinian parents were upset that their children were shown "homosexual behavior" in the film American History X without their notification.
As gay people macking in movies is a bit of a hobby of mine, I was confused because I didn't remember Ed Norton smooching with anyone of the same gender. I asked Priscilla what she was talking about. Her reply was ever so enlightening
It speaks to the success of desensitization efforts that we can't remember any homosexual scene.Maybe because it's been a long day or maybe I've just been reading PZ and his on-going vilification of Rapt Rapture Ravers so I'm feeling a little inspired here.In fact, there is a violent, racial, homosexual rape scene per:
http://www.racematters.org/americanhistoryx.htm
"A black-and-white homosexual rape sequence has been so strikingly photographed by Mr. Kaye himself that it makes up for the facile nature of the film's prison interlude."http://www.louisville.edu/~cnwoot01/ahx.html
"In a very disturbing shower-room scene, Derek is brutally raped by members of the white supremacy group. "Maybe some people could justify exposing their children to such, but many of us do not agree that there is some kind of educational value for teenagers in exploring the basest extremes of racial hatred, rape, and homosexuality. That is why there was a law requiring parental notice - so that parents who find it acceptable can opt in and parents who find it objectionable can opt out.
She's one sick fuck.
You scroll through the postings and not only is she and the rest of her club worried about the least little mention of homosexuality or Gay people, but she's one of the social club set itching to start nuking the Middle East.
Sweet Noodles for Brains, sometimes it seems insanity is just popping up all over.
I spun off into the Middle East when I should have stuck to the point, that rape, is a crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse and not an expression of love and affection between two people. It doesn't get much simpler than that.
One last illustration because this is just really bothering me.
The scene in question from American History X, the one that Ms. Jael equates with average, everyday, "homosexual behavior?" Quickie description of the action in the sequence is that Ed Norton's neo-Aryan character, a rather despicable soul who caused much evil between the races at the beginning of the film, is beaten, pummeled, and held down in the shower while several other despicable people his former buddies in the jail house White Supremacist Gang* brutally ass-rape him over and over again before leaving him crying in a bloody, bested pile.
Curiously enough, the above and full scale war in the Middle East have one blindingly truth thing in common, folks.
Neither is going bring Jesus back.
*Corrected from original posting.
Posted by Jody at July 28, 2006 06:46 PM
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Wasn't Norton's character raped by his own Aryan "brothers," which became the transformative experience in his life, prompting him to leave behind the empty philosophy and hatred of racism? At least that's how I remember the movie.
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at July 28, 2006 08:38 PM
Ack!
I had to go find the script to read up on what happens in the scene. You are right. I confabulated bits and pieces of memory together and "remembered" the scene that way (and how I remembered it is interesting too).
Memory can suck sometimes.
Posted by: Jody at July 28, 2006 11:10 PM
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