-Caveat Lector-
From: "Johannes Schmidt III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> With the benefit of hindsight, maybe I should have put a
> stronger disclaimer and I apologise if anyone was upset.
> This is from a major newspaper here.
No disclaimer should be necessary. Anyone who posts here rightly should expect that
the members are ADULT
enough to handle unpleasant facts of life; besides, your subject heading gave adequate
warning as to what the
subject matter was about. Those who get queasy with such facts are better advised to
limit their Internet use
to those lists that treat their subscribers as children and severely censor postings.
Hopefully that is NOT
what CTRL is about.
Their loud complaints bring me back to a documentary I saw on local NYC TV back in the
autumn of 1969; it was
about the Woodstock festival that had occurred a few months before. The premise was
that a group of people
were shown footage of the festival that was solely images, no sound, and they were
encouraged to express their
comments and opinions.
The first group were comprised of young people, some of whom had actually been at the
festival, some of whom
could be described as 'hippies'; at one point in the footage it showed the infamous
nude bathing in the local
swimming hole. To a person, all the young people considered it a 'ho-hum' subject, a
'so what?', "what's the
big deal?" subject. One young man who had been at the festival mentioned that no one
who was actually there
gave a second thought or glance to the nude bathers, and he found it interesting that
those who made such a
big deal about it were those who looked the hardest at movies and stills of the nude
bathers. He actually
formed 'glasses' out of his hands and stated "They'll get binoculars and look even
harder at what they say
they think is horrible and disgusting! They'll say "Isn't that terrible!" all the
while looking harder and
harder at it! I mean, if you think it's so bad, just don't look at it. But don't
complain how terrible it is
and then turn around and get binoculars to get a closer look, and point and say "Look!
Look! Isn't that
terrible!"
And then the last portion of the show had a group of adults watching the same footage.
Some were actually
quite supportive of the event and young people in general, others bemoaned the
downfall of civilization due to
'those damn hippies'...
And then the portion of footage showing the nude bathing came on. And those who
damned the hippies the
loudest were those who decried the loudest both the footage of the nude bathing and
the fact of the nude
bathing. And sure enough, to a person they all leaned closer to get a better look,
and pointed, and cried
"Look at that! Look at that, will you? Isn't that terrible! Isn't that disgusting!"
And some adjusted
their glasses to get a better look. They all leaned forward to get a better look,
especially those who
complained how disgusting it was.
So the point was, these people did exactly what the kid in the first segment described
-- complained about
finding the subject disgusting and terrible, but at the same time doing what they
could to get a better look
and see more of it. And I had to agree with the kid in the first segment -- if you
don't like it, don't spend
so much energy in looking at it.
Same advice to those who find graphic descriptions of rape too much for their immature
systems...don't spend
so much energy looking at it then. But don't act as censors for the rest of us who
are mature enough to
handle it.
June
<A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A>
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