OK, in all seriousness, don't conservatives know about the gay penguins?
The Logo Channel has a very funny animated bit about the gay penguins as one of their promos.
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DavidS - Sep 13, 2005 8:12:54 am PDT #7304 of 10002
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erikaj - Sep 13, 2005 8:17:39 am PDT #7305 of 10002
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There are often gay animals. What? The penguins OD'd on QE?By which I meant to say, if animals are doing it, how unnatural is it really? Animals don't do things to be cool or piss off their parents. I have not seen the penguin film, though.
Sean K - Sep 13, 2005 8:27:34 am PDT #7306 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Yeah, I can't help but think that pointing to the sex lives of penguins in a movies is actually going to bolster anyone's case for intelligent design or any other crap like that, just because once you open that door, then the fact that animals exhibit sexual behavior all over the spectrum is suddenly allowed into the discussion, which does not serve their case.
Besides, of course a movie is going to give the impression of an intelligent designer at work -- he's called the fucking DIRECTOR you morons.
Nutty - Sep 13, 2005 8:35:25 am PDT #7307 of 10002
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I dunno -- there are plenty of unintelligent directors out there. Of course, there are also things like hangnails, so if I was designed, I have my doubts about that designer's intelligence too.
This is the perfect moment to segue into discussions of alternate-reality treatments of sex and gender (Gethen, Whileaway), but it seems to me that nobody ever makes movies about these. Possibly because they cannot star Tom Cruise.
Sean K - Sep 13, 2005 8:39:01 am PDT #7308 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I dunno -- there are plenty of unintelligent directors out there.
Oh sure.... I'm not saying having a director automatically leaves one with the impression of an intelligent designer at work. Just that in this particular case...
This is the perfect moment to segue into discussions of alternate-reality treatments of sex and gender
Not sure exactly what you mean here, but there was a great science fiction story I read in an anthology once that featured a species whose extruding genetalia snapped off during intercourse and melded with the genitals of the accepting genetalia. They effectively switched genders during intercourse.
Fred Pete - Sep 13, 2005 8:40:41 am PDT #7309 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
if animals are doing it, how unnatural is it really?
Modern conservatives only care about supporting their agenda, not reality. It only counts if it supports their pre-determined conclusion. See Schwarzenegger's "legislatures should decide on marriage, until the California legislature actually approves" statements.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 13, 2005 8:41:49 am PDT #7310 of 10002
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Not sure exactly what you mean here, but there was a great science fiction story I read in an anthology once that featured a species whose extruding genetalia snapped off during intercourse and melded with the genitals of the accepting genetalia. They effectively switched genders during intercourse.
Boy, there's a reality where teaching abstinence as the primary birth control method in schools might actually work.
Jessica - Sep 13, 2005 8:50:48 am PDT #7311 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Apparently some conservatives have embraced March of the Penguins as a film espousing their values about monogamy and intelligent design (WTF?)
Does their version of the Intelligent Designer hate penguins? Because...dude. f I were designing a universe, I'd have been a lot nicer to them. Just for being so cute.
(Also, did they miss the part where the penguins are only monogamous for a single season at a time?)
Not sure exactly what you mean here, but there was a great science fiction story I read in an anthology once that featured a species whose extruding genetalia snapped off during intercourse and melded with the genitals of the accepting genetalia. They effectively switched genders during intercourse.
It wasn't Venus Plus X, but that's what your post made me think of.
Fred Pete - Sep 13, 2005 8:52:19 am PDT #7312 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
(Also, did they miss the part where the penguins are only monogamous for a single season at a time?)
Much like Newt Gingrich, or Rush Limbaugh.
Volans - Sep 13, 2005 9:04:22 am PDT #7313 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Also, did they miss the part where the penguins are only monogamous for a single season at a time?
Yep, this describes my conservative friends pretty well.