Oh, it's not just teachers ... no way is it just them. Although the Apollo Program was advertised as a race to reach the moon....
The reality is Werner von Braun and many others were haunted by Freudian issues....
Posted on 01/11/2008 10:46:24 AM PST by bs9021
Sex and the MLA
by: Bethany Stotts, January 11, 2008
Chicago, Ill— It seems like some professors simply can’t get their mind off sexuality and have allowed this fixation to the color their professional work. A teacher of Lesbian Bisexual Gay Transgender Queer (LBGTQ) studies at Santa Clara University, Professor Linda Garber asserts that she had, as an untenured professor, been nervous about teaching sex in class “and I decided, well, maybe for just a few years I could teach sexuality not sex.”
She added “It didn’t work that way, partly because you find that it’s so normalized you forget; someone’s masturbating in this book [and having sex in another]—well, you know,” she said to a crowd that definitely did. As a teacher of LBGTQ studies, Garber says “the stakes are simply too high to do nothing, to play it very safe and teach sexuality without sex, for example, and that certainly of course, feels safer post tenure.”
Other Modern Language Association (MLA) panel speakers found a queer agenda in children’s movies and the poetic structures of Christopher Marlowe. Noting that penguins typically mate through “heart songs,” English Professor Vin Nardizzi detects a sexual agenda behind Happy Feet protagonist Mumble’s decision to tap-dance for a little girl visiting the zoo. “[Mumble] is queer in the sense that he engages in a non-normative reproductive action,” asserts Nardizzi....
Professor Laura Dietz of Angelo State University argues for a sexual interpretation of Marlowe’s 16th century poetic structures, which match lines of equal length instead of a classical unequal male-female pairing...
Lake Forest College Professor Christopher Reed expressed delight over the queer references found in Will & Grace “which were unmarked as such” because “so often in sitcoms you can see that they’re coming” and then they are explained to the viewers.....
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“In the latter book, a male pleasures himself before a porn video, which Wend-Walker compares to a children’s book scene where a bee circles around hibiscus proclaiming in ecstasy how “sweet” the flower is. Wend-Walker proclaimed that it is “impossible to entirely dissociate” the bee from the porn scene or a “mouse lustily nibbling on a confection”— even if the book was written for a child.”
From the article. These people seem completely fixated on sex. They need help not a teaching degree.
English Professor Vin Nardizzi detects a sexual agenda behind Happy Feet protagonist Mumble’s decision to tap-dance for a little girl visiting the zoo. “[Mumble] is queer in the sense that he engages in a non-normative reproductive action,” asserts Nardizzi.
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What a waste of human potential to create this patent nonsense. It is a waste if it is not a form of political comedy, that is. If it is a form of political comedy, which I suspect, with the professor consciously creating nonsense and his other professors are in on the joke, then it does done at the expense of the students who take it seriously. In that case it is evil.
Ever read C.S. Lewis’ “That Hideous Strength”? I wonder who is at the top of the little pyramid of evil in academia?
Oh, it's not just teachers ... no way is it just them. Although the Apollo Program was advertised as a race to reach the moon....
The reality is Werner von Braun and many others were haunted by Freudian issues....
Will and Grace is about as subtle as a baseball bat. The characters are one-dimensional. And despite the wild laughter in the sound track, 5 minutes of Frazier has more genuine wit in it than 3 whole episodes of Will and Grace.
“The reality is Werner von Braun and many others were haunted by Freudian issues...”
The reality is that a cylinder is a very efficient design for many purposes. Anything else is projection.
The reality is that a cylinder is a very efficient design for many purposes. Anything else is projection.
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Yah, man! Riding to the moon on a giant phallus. Other than the Freudian psycho-sexual compulsions rockets would have been shaped like comfortable homes.
“And despite the wild laughter in the sound track, 5 minutes of Frazier has more genuine wit in it than 3 whole episodes of Will and Grace.”
I totally agree. Will and Grace is blatant propaganda.
“Yah, man! Riding to the moon on a giant phallus. Other than the Freudian psycho-sexual compulsions rockets would have been shaped like comfortable homes.”
Comfortable homes would not be able to handle the acceleration , lack of atmosphere, or anything else except the pre and post launch parties.
I really hope you’re being double-secret sarcastic....
Comfortable homes would not be able to handle the acceleration , lack of atmosphere, or anything else except the pre and post launch parties.
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Uh, dude. You need to go to Oz and ask the wizard for a sense of humor.
That would be the "B" in LBGT....
The reality is that a cylinder is a very efficient design for many purposes.
“Sometimes a rocketship is just a rocketship.” - S. Freud
These people are loons.
“I really hope you’re being double-secret sarcastic”
Sarcastic about what? That shapes & structures found in nature tend to be efficient and repeated? Not sarcastic about that.
The fixation some people have with the shape is juvenile.
“Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.” Freud.
“Uh, dude. You need to go to Oz and ask the wizard for a sense of humor.”
Uh dude, I don’t find anything funny about this crap being foisted off on our children using our tax dollars.
OK, I will leave you to your righteous indignation! I share it but ask you to consider the possiblity that mockery is an effective response.
BTW, did you notice, Greg, that driftdiver's initials are (giggle) "DD"? What else is "DD?" (knowing nod) Uh huh .... so he's not just fixated on cylindrical things.
“I share it but ask you to consider the possiblity that mockery is an effective response.”
Mockery can be effective. But why mock the space program when its the idiotic school doing this?
Dude, those other posters were being CLEARLY sarcastic and not at all serious.
Although it is entirely possible to make a boxy rocket... but that is not my point.
Aerodynamics be damned. The only people with a fixation are these moronic libs.
“Aerodynamics be damned. The only people with a fixation are these moronic libs.”
You haven’t read through all the posts on this thread have you? Several folks here seem to have their own pornographic fixation.
Liberalism is the desire to justify perversion.
That would, I am certain, be a bit of a surprise to Marlowe, a man's man if ever there was one. A secret agent getting stabbed to death in a barroom brawl isn't exactly my idea of a shrinking violet. I don't seem him in a faculty lounge debating "heteronormativity."
“Feminine and masculine become virtually indistinguishable without an extra foot—or appendage, so to speak,” she said.
One of the great things about postmodernism is that one can pull down a Professor's salary for making puns that wouldn't pass muster in a junior high-school newspaper. Sorry, those are properly termed "language games," not puns. The flopping sound you hear is Wittgenstein spinning in his grave and the giggling is Derrida. From hell.
Honest to Shakespeare, if you squint hard enough there is a deep linguistic similarity between "foot" in the poetic sense and "appendage" in the anatomical, but you'd have to be awfully optimistic to assume that those are the very structures of truth, the universe, and everything. It's only funny because they're so doggone earnest about it.
They wouldn’t be talking about sex so much if they were actually having it.
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