Who could forget this masterpiece about a young man’s struggle with temptation, that features an evil “Zero Population” street gang who looked like "Solid Gold Dancer" rejects.
The ZPG movement grew out of the environmental movement and the work of discredited ideologically driven scientists such as that of the notorious Paul Ehrlich. "Overpopulation" is an ideological myth, and bore a very strong resemblance, in its heydey, to AGW.
30 years later, the Church is still working to disaffect people of the notion of soul mates, parents choosing their children, being the most righteous generation, among other things.
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The Brethren have long taught that we are a generation of unique souls chosen to come forth in this dispensation because of our particular strengths and capacities. Its Church doctrine.
In point of fact, the quote be Elder Packer linked to isn't ever relevant to the doctrinal material Wang mentions in his own post.
Let’s face it, Mormonism is viewed in many parts of the country and world as being all about polygamy and treating women like chattel.
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What is really shocking is that Mormons can watch it today and not see that there's anything morally suspect about the whole trading a daughter for 8 cows scenario.
In that kind of a traditional society, there isn't.
They're so caught up on "But it was 8 cows!!" and "I'm an eight-cow wife too!" that they don't seem to ask "Hey, is there something questionable about teaching morality lessons using stories in which treating a woman as property is romanticized?".
They could have set it in Tokugawa era Japan and made the same points legitimately.
I know the LDS like to hold this theme up as feigning the way Johnny Lingo saw Mahona's potential, but it sends so many other terrible messages to little girls. It's insulting to their intellect, limiting to their potential, and the most misogynistic movie ever foisted on LDS women (I am willing to bet that WS loves this movie).
Its always nice to see feminist boilerplate like this regurgitated on cue as if from last semester's freshman woman's studies class at Wellsley with Freudian tenacity in seeking out the sinister hidden ideologies and motives behind Johnny Lingo. You'd have to have Naomi Wolfe posting here personally to outdo this.
Cow and wife should not be uttered in the same sentence. I would love to see what a feminist movie critic would make of this.
Now I understand again why Buckley once titled one of his books "Up From Liberalism."
Finally, the scene where Mahona finally gets a hand mirror and sees herself and she is now a Polynesian Barbie Doll, sends so many sick messages to little girls about their value and ownership by men.
So little American girls are going to get the idea stuffed into their heads that their future husbands are going to own them by watching a movie about a traditional tribal society in the South Seas that uses that setting to teach a moral principle.
