Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!pesnta!hplabs!ames!barry 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 Article-I.D.: ames.1103 Posted: Thu Aug 22 21:38:50 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:53:25 EDT References: <2402@amdcad.UUCP> <1079@ames.UUCP> <2665@amdcad.UUCP> <1089@ames.UUCP> <2830@amdcad.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 38 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USENET: {ihnp4,vortex,dual,nsc,hao,hplabs}!ames!barry