Sunday, 16 June 2013

Oh, those relationships...

Quotes from "Kinsey" 2004 (great movie, highly recommend)-

1) Kinsey and his wife:

- But I'm not sure I understand. Haven't I always been open to whatever you wanted?
- It's not you, Mac. You're the best partner any man could have.
- I'm just not enough. Is that it?
- Please, Mac. This is inside of me. To what extent, I don't know. But I'd be a hypocrite if I pretended it wasn't there. When I took your history...
- Don't! Don't!
- …didn't you admit to having sexual feelings for other men?
- Don't use that against me!
- I'm sorry. But what keeps you from acting on your feelings? Convention.
- No! It's our marriage! It's our children!
- Exactly. Social restraints.
- Did you ever stop to think that perhaps those restraints are there to keep people from hurting each other? I don't sleep with other men because I love you and I don't want to hurt you.
- But what if it didn't hurt me?
- Then I'd be hurt.
- You're just afraid that I won't love you anymore, which is impossible, Mac. The human animal is capable of all kinds of sexual expression. Not all sex has to be sanctioned by love, enriched by emotion.
- To the Greeks…
- Stop! Stop lecturing, Prok. Stop using science to justify what you've done.

2) Kinsey's assistant:

- What are we to you, Prok? We're just lab rats? Is this just another part of the project to prove that sex, no, no, I’m sorry, fucking, is nothing more than friction and harmless fun? Well, let me tell you, that is a risky game because fucking isn’t just something, it’s the whole thing. And if you are not careful, it will cut you wide open.



Robin Hood Tax

An interesting initiative - makes you reflect. Bill Nighy (one of the campaigners for the tax) amazing as usual.


For more information visit: http://robinhoodtax.org.uk/

Friday, 14 June 2013

Made me smile ruefully...

About Freud

Vienna, 1938

"Having had his money seized and his books burned, before he was allowed to leave, Freud was made to sign a paper saying that he had been well treated. He added beside his signature, 'I can most highly recommend the Gestapo to everyone.' " (Milton et al, 2011. A short introduction to psychoanalysis, p. 46)