Good points Chris. But "hermeneutics"? On a Monday? Too heavy....
Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. [email protected] http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt On Jul 28, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Christopher Green <[email protected]> wrote: > 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=13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958f69&n=T&l=tips&o=37731 > or send a blank email to > leave-37731-13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958...@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=37732 or send a blank email to leave-37732-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
