tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post5862486128856151773..comments2024-03-18T03:40:39.185-04:00Comments on The Curious Jew: I Am TriumphantChanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655144434904957767noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-88431114308521404162009-08-13T20:30:50.094-04:002009-08-13T20:30:50.094-04:00Seems like there's a little crossover between ...Seems like there's a little crossover between descriptive and prescriptive here. First of all, though, homosexuality is still considered a sexual variant, just not a pathological one.<br /><br />That's an important distinction. Researchers and theorists in psychology and sociology are aware of the blurry line between acceptable and pathological. And you're right that it definitely gets very, very blurry figuring that out with the sexual variances, since attitudes towards sexuality change, some variants are odd but not harmful to anyone, etc. The descriptive claim might say, though: incest ISN'T accepted (this is true pretty much universally, probably for good biological reasons), regardless of what morally *should* be accepted (prescriptively). It would be so unusual and abhorrent to most people--regardless of a source for morality--that psychologists might assume there is something pathological in someone who is doing it.JewishGadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03531540800635608198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-36485485280816670432009-08-12T21:04:31.662-04:002009-08-12T21:04:31.662-04:00Heh! I liked this!
A lot of "sociology"...Heh! I liked this!<br /><br />A lot of "sociology" only seems to work/and or exist within the ivory towers of academia. Outside the towers, in the real world, the constructs and frameworks don't necessarily hold--and are a bunch of bologna!<br /><br />The study of men? It's not going to happen. Why? It's not vogue--nor does it fit the social paradigms of the instructors in the academy. But I'm sure you were well aware of that. These same instructors will brush off such an inquiry with the retort that "men wrote history, etc...so why must we study them"<br /><br />Have you ever read Sowell's "The quest for cosmic justice"? It's skewed a bit more politically, but I think it would be a nice response to the course you just took. <br /><br />Now, more importantly, partying. I'm actually having a party right now...they opened my balcony back up after 17 months of not having it! Burgers on the balcony! Huzzah!The Cousinnoreply@blogger.com