Prejudice in science fiction
Since we are now hopelessly off topic, I will answer some of the questions asked of me. However, I do not really believe the continuation of this thread will benefit anyone in any way. [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img] Translation: I’m not going to put any more responses on this thread unless someone gives me a really good reason to.
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Originally posted by Aleck:
If I have this band of followers, tell me, how am I leading them? How am I organizing them to oppose you?
You make posts saying that I am arrogant and offensive. After reading these, people are more likely to interpret ambivalent statements by me as offensive or signs of arrogance. You give people a preconceived bias against me. And your privileged status and charismatic demeanor just make you all the more convincing to people. No one, not friends, enemies, people on other message boards I go to, has [b]ever[/b] said I was arrogant besides the people here. Since it is an isolated sentiment I must consider it non-valid, the product of an element unique to this setting. You are that element.
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Originally posted by Headgehog:
As Aleck mentioned earlier if in your book people don’t have sex, then thats your artistic right. But its also very science fiction. I’m also reminded of something you posted in respones to a statement I made “After a nuclear holocaust only roaches and Cher will survive”, you said that I shouldn’t steal your novel ideas. Is this book your writing now, related to that?
I was kidding. The novel I’m writing does take place in a terrible post-apocalyptic world (I got bored with utopian literature), but there is no Cher and very few intelligent cockroaches. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Brainplague:
you’re LYING!!! you have to be. otherwise you’re going to be stark raving bonkers by the time you’re 20. repressing sexual drives like that isn’t healthy. all that sexual energy has to go somewhere, for instance, into the creation of a serial killer. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
I’m [b]not[/b] lying. I honestly do not have, nor have I ever had, sexual urges, appetites, or drive. There’s nothing to repress. And I don’t buy into the concept that “energy” will manifest itself in some other way if it is consciously eliminated in one. I am quite balanced mentally. But I don’t suppose anybody here really cares about my life, unless the information I give can be used to insult me. [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Aleck:
Freud’s theories regarding defense mechanisms (what you’re talking about are repression and sublimation) are widely regarded as among the most, if not the very most, lasting contributions he made to the field of psychology. They have not only been confirmed by more recent study, but have been expanded on.
No they are not. Few if any people today take all of Freud’s wacky ideas as the gospel truth (he said that schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder were caused by bad childhood experiences!), and the behaviorists essentially disproved the sublimation theory in the 80. Nearly every psychological text I have read has said that much of Freud’s ideas are now disregarded, since they were not supported by empirical analysis. Therapists now days don’t worry that eliminating a fear or behavior will cause any underlying problem to be expressed in another way. “On the contrary, they find that overcoming maladaptive behaviors helps people feel better about themselves.”-David G. Myers
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Originally posted by Aleck:
You could just have a lousy professor (and again, I ask, as I did in a lost post, what college do you *go* to, anyway??? Where do they *teach* this crap???).
As I said before, I go to the University of Iowa. My psychology professor, Robert S. Baron, is actually moderately well-known in the psychological community for his studies on social prejudice.
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Originally posted by Nirvanah Rimmer:
Furthermore, is sex EVER okay in your eyes? What if you meet a girl, fall in love ,get msrried. THEN is sexuality okay?
Yes, I think that’s okay.
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Originally posted by Dgrequeen:
at 18, you’ve got a heckuva lot of living and learning to do, and one of these days, sex IS going to rear its ugly head.
I want to get married and have children someday, so eventually I will have to have sex. I have accepted that.
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Originally posted by Nirvanah Rimmer:
Also ,if this is true, and you really DON’T feel any urges, someone should give you an award for being able to watch Lexx without desiring to screw Xev…
No, I have never desired to “screw” anyone, real or fictional. I don’t see anything in either Zev. I must confess that I do think Lyekka and Wist are cute, alluring, and maybe attractive on some level [img]images/smiles/icon_redface.gif[/img] , but [b]not[/b] sexy. I think most of us, at some point in our lives, have found ourselves a little attracted to one or more fictional characters of the opposite sex.
[ 17-11-2001: Message edited by: DalekTek790 ]