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From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Rape - Another Solution (violence in movies)
Message-ID: <1103@ames.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 21:38:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 21:38:50 1985
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From Linda Seltzer (amdcad!linda):
> In article <1089@ames.UUCP>, barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry) writes:
>> 	You keep bringing up the same false dichotomy. Now I have to choose
>> between watching RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and listening to amateur sarod
>> players. Why is it not better that I do both, as the spirit moves me?
>> 
>Your comments show that
>it is your taste which is limited to slick productions hyped up by the
>mass media and by the "catchiness" of the presentation.  When people
>have the attitude that students are "amateura" not worth listening
>to then their choices are determined by commercialism and slick presentation
>rather than honest feeling.  When I refer to emotional intensity, I
>mean intensity in terms of fear, suspicion, suspense, and violence.
>Quite frankly I am sure that one's taste is varied, and one can learn
>to appreciate subtlety if one rejects the slick presentations of violence
>offered by the mass media.

	It is you who are defining "amateur" as "not worth listening
to", not I. It is interesting, if a touch strange, to see what a mass
of information you believe you have about my tastes, especially since
I fail to see what there was in my articles that led you to these
conclusions. But never mind; who cares what my tastes are? What I still
would like to know is, what is it you see that prevents me from enjoying
*both* the kind of entertainment that you consider politically correct,
*and* the kind of which you disapprove? Both of your articles on this
subject have implied that one needs to make a choice, to reject the one
in order to accept the other, but you have nowhere indicated why one
would have to do this. To make it a question of RAIDERS vs. ragas is
to simply ignore the fact that one is free to like both.
	Unless you start trying to make a better case against suspense
and violence, instead of simply telling us all how wonderful
non-violent art is, you are simply missing the point.

-  From the Crow's Nest  -                      Kenn Barry
                                                NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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