You say you want a sexual revolution, well you know...

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http://townhall.com/columnists/brentboz ... page/full/


Veteran reporter Sharon Waxman knew she'd found a new low. Reporting from the Toronto Film Festival, she revealed the viewpoint of director Nick Cassavetes, which she summarized in a headline: "Who Gives a Damn? Love Who You Want." The topic was incest.

Hollywood's march to tear down -- to obliterate, really -- every boundary of sexual decency should compel even the harshest accusers of social conservatives like Rick Santorum to apologize profusely. They were wrong to mock conservatives for warning of the extremes, as we're lurching so quickly and easily into the darkest "love who you want" extremes of the Lifestyle Left.

Cassavetes is selling his film, "Yellow," which stars his ex-wife Heather Wahlquist as a beautiful woman addicted to pain pills. She travels back home to Oklahoma after being expelled from her teaching job in Los Angeles for "having broom closet sex on Parent Night." On her way home, she stops to visit her brother in prison. It results in an incest scene that we're told is "tender and affecting and signals no judgment of the relationship."

Cassavetes told The Wrap, "I have no experience with incest...We started thinking about that. We had heard a few stories where brothers and sisters were completely, absolutely in love with one another. You know what? This whole movie is about judgment, and lack of it and doing what you want. Who gives a s--- if people judge you?"

Then he arrived at what became the headline of the article: "I'm not saying this is an absolute, but in a way, if you're not having kids -- Who gives a damn? Love who you want. Isn't that what we say? Gay marriage -- love who you want? If it's your brother or sister, it's super weird, but if you look at it, you're not hurting anybody, except every single person who freaks out because you're in love with one another."

In a very real sense, he's right. This is where the slippery slope leads. Cassavetes said he wanted to portray a modern woman who is, in his words, "a rock star" and "a mess." He wanted "an exaggerated version of a girl who came from a place where different things are acceptable." In reality, he wanted a beautiful woman that viewers would find sympathetic, and then throw this shocking, "tender" incest scene in their face.

Don't think critics won't like it. A reviewer on Indiewire called this movie "officially the most refreshing breath of air" at the Toronto Film Festival. "So far, there is no news on distribution or when this thing is coming out, but as soon as it does, go out, don't take it too seriously and have a little fun with it."

Don't take the incest scene too seriously? Have fun with it? What -- chuckle?

Incest isn't the only grave sin that's being promoted by the cultural revolutionaries. Last fall, the major gossip website Gawker strongly attacked the social site Reddit for having a "Jailbait" subsection, which displayed sexualized images of girls of junior high age for "catering to pedophiles." So what is Gawker doing now? Catering to pedophiles.

This juggernaut website published an article on September 7 titled "Born This Way: Sympathy and Science for Those Who Want to Have Sex With Children." The writer, Cord Jefferson, cited "a growing number of researchers, many of them out of Canada, whose work suggests that pedophilia is an illness deserving of the public's sympathy the way any brain disorder is. Some of the scientists say pedophilia is a sexual orientation, meaning that it's unchangeable, regardless of how much jail time or beatings or therapy someone is dealt."

Where are the national media outlets that are still pounding their anvils on the front pages and TV segments against the Catholic Church and their struggles with pedophilia? Nowhere to be found.

Jefferson argued, "If pedophilia is a sexual orientation, that also means it's futile to send pedophiles to prison in an effort to alter their attractions. Doing so is akin to sending a homosexual child off to a religious-based institution that claims it can 'pray the gay away.'"

This jaw-dropping article concluded that the weakest in our society -- he listed blacks, women, Latinos and gays -- "are still in no way on wholly equal footing in America. But they're also not nearly as lowly and cursed as men attracted to children. One imagines that if Jesus ever came to earth, he'd embrace the poor, the blind, the lepers and, yes, the pedophiles."

Jesus would embrace every sinner ... who is ashamed of his sin. Shame and judgment have been banished in most of our pop culture.

Perhaps Gawker will next try and convince Nick Cassavetes to make his next daring indie film with "tender and affecting" scenes of pedophilia which "signal no judgment."

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The Sexual Revolution is long dead. Studies have confirmed woman's desire to marry. Studies have not come up with a genetic reason for homosexuality. Planned Parenthood and the APA have been revealed as the instigators of child sexualization the promoters of adults having sex with children and Hollywood is their thug. All that essentially remains are the unaborted children of liberals and their recruits raising a ruckus now and again.
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bcspace wrote:The Sexual Revolution is long dead. Studies have confirmed woman's desire to marry. Studies have not come up with a genetic reason for homosexuality. Planned Parenthood and the APA have been revealed as the instigators of child sexualization the promoters of adults having sex with children and Hollywood is their thug. All that essentially remains are the unaborted children of liberals and their recruits raising a ruckus now and again.


I'd have to disagree here, bc. Its alive and well in the Hollywood/arts community, within academia and the foundations, and among the mores and unquestioned attitudes of a substantial number (probably a substantial majority) of Americans and many more Europeans.

The openly ideological aspects of it may be "dead" in the sense that its now, for all intents, the default position of the culture for many and is no longer "revolutionary" as it was in the late sixties/early seventies, but if so, the corpse continues to twitch in the form of the homosexual marriage movement, the incessant promotion of polymorphous/casual sex among teenagers (http://ippf.org/resources/publications/ ... -happy-hot) the relentless indoctrination towards the normalization of "LGBT" sexual practices and "orientation" within the public education system, and the continuing anti-natalist bias of key UN agencies and associated NGOs.
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Droopy wrote:http://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/2012/09/14/incest_and_pedophilia_the_new_frontier/page/full/
Hollywood's march to tear down -- to obliterate, really -- every boundary of sexual decency should compel even the harshest accusers of social conservatives like Rick Santorum to apologize profusely. They were wrong to mock conservatives for warning of the extremes, as we're lurching so quickly and easily into the darkest "love who you want" extremes of the Lifestyle Left.


Ah, here we have "Hollywood's march to tear down...every boundary of sexual decency." Because, as we all know, Hollywood is a monolith, with no room for alternative opinions. That's why Clint Eastwood has been so unsuccessful.

Let's back up here. The film's director, Nick Cassavetes, is the son of Actor/Director John Cassavetes, who spent virtually all of his career outside the Hollywood system making independent films. 'Yellow' is at the Toronto Film Festival. Here's how that works: You get your film shown, hope it get's some buzz, and (if you're lucky) you get a distributor who will help pick up advertising. promotion, booking and distribution costs in exchange for a hefty percentage of the profits.

This is not the first film to take on incest as a subject matter.( I would recommend 'A Thousand Acres' -Jason Robards, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfieffer, Jennifer Jason Leigh).

But never mind any of the other films that have dealt with the incest, this ONE FILM, made by an independent film maker, which the author has not seen, is now emblematic of Monolithic Hollywood's 'official' position on incest.

It just like the "Innocence of Muslims" film proves that all Americans are trying to tear down Islam.
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Droopy wrote:[T]he incessant promotion of polymorphous/casual sex among teenagers . . .

What on Earth is "polymorphous sex?"
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Droopy wrote:Cassavetes is selling his film, "Yellow," which stars his ex-wife Heather Wahlquist...


Get a load of Democrat gabbages! If she gets naked, I'm going to see it.

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What, exactly, do you disagree with Droopy? I know you want to imply that the sexual revolution is on a slippery slope to tolerating child molestation, but that would be an utterly idiotic reading of what Jefferson's actual comments were. It's no shock that Townhall would try to misrepresent it, as that's their stock and trade. Jefferson's article was rather a discussion of pedophilia being controlled by factors that aren't chosen, which is true, this meaning that sending pedophiles to prison to reform their orientation is futile, which is true, and that pedophiles are treated in horrible ways by society that are not proportional, which is also true. A pedophile who never acts on those urges is kinda heroic, but it is social suicide to admit that attraction to all but a few people.

The article explicitly argues that this doesn't mean we fail to condemn child molestation. Quoting it, "You're not guilty for your sexual desire, but you are responsible for your sexual behavior." It doesn't mean we don't attempt to sequester pedophiles from society to the extent they engage in criminal acts. The big policy prescription implied would simply be to have a more involuntary mental health commitment focus and maybe personal sympathy for those afflicted. To claim that the article was promoting it, as you do by proxy, is a flat lie.
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