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December 12, 2010
What was David Epstein thinking?
Where did this highly intelligent man buy his moral compass?Did he read the relevant Supreme Court decisions about sexual behavior and conclude that when it comes to consenting adults, anything goes? Did he believe that right and wrong are not moral absolutes but are social constructs? Did he simply believe that since sex was a healthy human activity, it should be indulged? Or did he imagine that if it felt good no one could possibly object? -- Had Enough Therapy?: Ivy League Incest
Posted by Vanderleun at December 12, 2010 11:03 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
This was well written:
A woman who gives birth to her father’s child has also given birth to her half-sister. At the same time she has also given birth to her father’s grandchild. How can this woman and child situate themselves within their so-called family? How then can they know who they are, or if they are as social beings?
Where do you stand in relation to others?
I am my own grandpa, indeed.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at December 12, 2010 1:37 PM
David not Richard.
[Oops. Thanks.]
Posted by: Mike at December 12, 2010 3:45 PM
Evelyn Mulwray: She's my daughter.
[Gittes slaps Evelyn]
Jake Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: She's my sister...
[slap]
Evelyn Mulwray: She's my daughter...
[slap]
Evelyn Mulwray: My sister, my daughter.
[More slaps]
Jake Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: She's my sister AND my daughter!
Walsh: Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Posted by: Fat Man at December 12, 2010 5:43 PM
The linked article draws a few unlikely conclusions.
Has Epstein destroyed his career? I've never heard of a professor fired for moral turpitude.
Has his family been stigmatized? And for how long? Or will most NYCers, observing the Gay Pride parade and reflecting on Epstein, shrug and mutter "consenting adults."
How different is Epstein's behavior from Woody Allen's? He hasn't been stigmatized.
Wasn't one of John Sayles avante-garde movies about incest? It's been acceptable behavior since then, at least, among the cognoscenti.
Will this mean an end to the hillbilly sibling sex jokes? (Wasn't there a hillbilly incest episode of the X-Files? Home?)
The sophisticated project their degeneracy and corruption on the provincials: homosexuality in Deliverance; incest in Lone Star. First projection; second humor; third publicity; fourth normalcy. Epstein is a stage three, alas, for him, should the moral standards of NYC fail to spread widely.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 13, 2010 4:36 AM
The linked article draws a few unlikely conclusions.
Has Epstein destroyed his career? I've never heard of a professor fired for moral turpitude.
Has his family been stigmatized? And for how long? Or will most NYCers, observing the Gay Pride parade and reflecting on Epstein, shrug and mutter "consenting adults."
How different is Epstein's behavior from Woody Allen's? He hasn't been stigmatized.
Wasn't one of John Sayles avante-garde movies about incest? It's been acceptable behavior since then, at least, among the cognoscenti.
Will this mean an end to the hillbilly sibling sex jokes? (Wasn't there a hillbilly incest episode of the X-Files? Home?)
The sophisticated project their degeneracy and corruption on the provincials: homosexuality in Deliverance; incest in Lone Star. First projection; second humor; third publicity; fourth normalcy. Epstein is a stage three, alas, for him, should the moral standards of NYC fail to spread widely.
Posted by: tehag at December 13, 2010 4:37 AM
I think its neat that we can now have Ivy League incest jokes replacing the hill billy incest jokes. To help joke writers along, the Ivy League consists of Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton.
Posted by: St. Thor at December 13, 2010 3:54 PM
I predict a new sexually perverted Lefitst special interest group.. may be called Consensual Incest or something equally politically correct. "Daddy is My Baby Daddy" may be a new reality show. Perhaps Obama can appoint Epstein as a White House Incest Czar.
Posted by: RedCarolina at December 14, 2010 8:15 AM