Dec 122004
I need to start packing, but check out Frank Rich’s column in the Sunday Times. Rich has been doing some good post-election cultural commentary. This week, he uses the film Kinsey as a springboard for comparing the the chilling effects of the right wing on cultural attitudes in our time and in Kinsey’s. He nicely illustrates the right’s near-pathological aversion to discussions of sexuality and how those attitudes exert a disproportionate influence on our media. Let me me add that we live in country where a few hundred people can spam the FCC into doing their bidding, but at the same time the adult film industry does billions of dollars in annual business. The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
