Extracting "lessons" from stories is a process fraught with so many difficulties (see Bible). Perhaps one is not intended to take the actions depicted in this movie as "models" but just as a report of what happened with these two (fictional) people. Even if there is supposed to be a "lesson," perhaps it is not the one you drew. Several other equally plausible ones come to mid: Perhaps the lesson is that "some thing are not really worth fighting about, so you might as well just kiss." Or, maybe, as the movie goes on, the disagreement comes up again, and so the larger "lesson" is, "just kissing will not make your problems go away; you must deal with them." Or, perhaps it comes up again even though it is not worth really fight about, so the "lesson" is, "sometimes you must accede to your loved one's demands, even though you disagree, because it is more important that you are both happy than it is that you 'win' on this one minor issue."
Allow me to introduce you to hermeneutics. :-) Chris ....... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo > On Jul 28, 2014, at 8:57 AM, Michael Britt <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I’m listening in the background as my 14 year old daughter watches Miley > Cyrus in some movie she made a few years ago. She and her handsome boyfriend > are having an argument (on the beach at sunset). She really wants to get > something resolved but suddenly her boyfriend just grabs her face and gives > her a forceful kiss, which, you guessed it, she succumbs to. > > So, let's see...what does this teach us? > > Boys: instead of trying to think things through with your girlfriend, just > use force > Girls: don't expect too much from your boyfriend, just go with it > > Maybe instead of violence and nudity ratings, there should be some other kind > of movie rating system - one that evaluates the subtle messages movies convey > to our children. > > Okay, okay, time to relax, get off my high horse and get back to work. What > a fuddy-duddy father I am... > > Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. > [email protected] > http://www.ThePsychFiles.com > Twitter: @mbritt > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=37729 > or send a blank email to > leave-37729-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=37731 or send a blank email to leave-37731-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
