Channel Zero! Organic Therapy needs your help!

[Organic Therapy]

This might sound like I want to get the easy way out of this retarded paper, but I truly do need help. I, myself, am an enormous procrastinator and have a very big paper due on Monday. The paper is for the gubernatorial race in Virginia at the moment; I basically have to write a bunch of stupid inane things about this shit. If someone, or a couple of people, could PLEASE help me on this a.k.a write a section for me.

 

Here is what I have left to do:

 

 

 

 

B. Describe five issues (mix or match) and the stands that the two gubernatorial candidates are taking on each of these issues. You may use a chart, but write in full sentences.

 

C. Read and summarize one editorial or article in one of the major papers in Virginia or the Washington Post, concerning the gubernatorial candidates. The article should be at least three paragraphs in length and your summary should be at least a paragraph—think NAG! You do not have to include the editorial or article—just provide the title and newspaper in the opening paragraph.

 

E. Finally, who do you think ought to win and why and who do you think will win and why? This should be at least a paragraph in length.

 

III. OPTIONAL Bonus Points (up to 5 points)--Include and analyze one political cartoon related to one of the executive branch races (governor, lt. governor, attorney general). This should be a paragraph in length.

 

 

 

If you would like to do the bonus for me, please do. I have done the BIGGEST and MOST important parts of the project so I'm not just WANTING you guys to finish this for me. I kind of need it.

 

 

Here are the governors sites with a lot of useful information you will need:

 

http://www.deedsforvirginia.com/splash/Default (Creigh Deeds looks like a douchebag and is one. He is a Democrat by the way, that's kind of important to know)

 

http://www.bobmcdonnell.com/ (This nigga is a boss and is a Republican)

 

 

Also, I want to get my dick wet tomorrow because I'm chillin' with this female and this paper is a literal cock blocker.

[lord_casek]

Wow. Seriously? No.

[Organic Therapy]

Too serious.

[XJONATHONX]

Hahahahaha

[lord_casek]

Too serious.

 

Wasting all this time on oontz, flirting with a bird, and not

writing your paper?

 

A real man would have her write it.

[Organic Therapy]

I'm in the process of writing it right now. It would just be great if someone could get at least ONE of those done.

 

And this bitch is like 3, she doesn't know how to write.

[lord_casek]

I'm in the process of writing it right now. It would just be great if someone could get at least ONE of those done.

 

And this bitch is like 3, she doesn't know how to write.

 

 

What?!?! Always go after the 12 year olds. They can 1: reach the stove

and 2: They know how to write.

[Organic Therapy]

Touché mi amigo.

 

I'm going to finish this myself I guess. Thanks anyways.

[Cymatics]

[Organic Therapy]

Hahahah, I just propped you for that. Holy shit.

[acer910]

oh hell no

[lord_casek]

acer's about to take off his shoe!!!!!!

 

OH SHIT

[injury]

post a cartoon and i'll analyze

 

 

...for sharpie meanstreaks

 

my rates are 4 streaks/paragraph

[yinz n'at]

100 bucks pay pal'd to me ill write the whole thing

 

you cant have someone write part of the paper, they have to do the whole thing so it flows properly

[MAR]

B. Describe five issues:

1. Dance n' Graf - Both candidates are in favor of dancing while spraying blamtallicas. McDonnel however prefers the term Graf n' Dance. When asked for a comment he responded, "Wonk Saggin."

 

 

2. Oontz - Deeds in in favor of banning oontz, in the past he has voted for oontz control. McDonnel has not taken a stand on the subject.

 

 

3. Tiny Chat - Deeds regularly participates in Tiny Chat. He chats under the name DityDeedsDoneCheep. Upon hearing this McDonnel is quoted as saying, "WEAK NIGGUH."

 

4. Juggalos - McDonnel was once accused of being a juggalo. While he virulently denied these claims he has been photographed drinking Faygo. Deed on the other hand recently attended a Mastadon concert, but doesn't remember it because he got so drunk he was kicked out mid-show. He stumbled all the way from DC to VA via 395.

 

5. LOLCATS - Deed famously claimed he created the LOLCAT. 4chan was upset at this claim and DDOS'd his website and sent emails to his wife with goatse attached as cutebabypictures.jpeg. In reference to this McDonnel said, "Oh lawl, somebadi gets me a cheezburgerz." No one laughed.

[Organic Therapy]

This nigga ^^. And Yinz, I can work it. I will probably have to switch up words and such to make it sound like I actually wrote it.

 

I am nearly done, so it's straight.

[injury]

sent emails to his wife with goatse attached as cutebabypictures.jpeg

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

excellent

[DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER]

This nigga wants to be a politician so he took political science or some shit.

And now he's too busy partying to pay attention to WTF is going on in politics.

 

 

Next George Bush junior?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[...HSAMSnoytiC]

i had some spare time tonight bro. hope it works out for ya, peace.

 

This is the most extensive and thorough world history of homosexuality ever written. Yet it is more accurate to call it a work of sociology than a work of history, for it develops a specific and arresting sociological thesis. David Greenberg argues, against popular opinion, that homosexuality is not a static condition; it is not like being black or white or left-handed. It is not, for the most part, even a deep-seated psychological "orientation."

 

Greenberg contends that the terms "homosexual," "gay" or "lesbian," are, "strictly speaking, anachronistic." People who continue to use these terms "hold that homosexual behavior is a manifestation of some inner essence, perhaps biological or psychological, is relatively stable over time, and characteristic of a distinct minority of the population." But according to Greenberg's "social constructivist" view, homosexuality is a behavior produced and interpreted in different ways by different societies at different times. Homosexuality is not an essence or condition that some people have and others do not. It is not a minority orientation that, perhaps, 10 percent of the population have and, when they discover their condition, become liberated to conform to their true natures. Applying the sociological theories of Durkheim and Mary Douglas to sexuality, Greenberg argues that homosexual identity is a social label. Social classification both creates the homosexual phenomenon and contains the evaluative frameworks by which it is judged, whether as deviant, tolerable, approvable or admirable.

 

In evaluating Greenberg's thesis it is important to know that he is a professor of sociology at New York University who specializes in criminology, law and the theory of deviance. He writes this book as a contribution to a more humane understanding of the gay and lesbian phenomenon. Although he is fully aware that the thesis of his book is at odds with the self-interpretation gays and lesbians generally present, he believes his alternative portrait will in the long run be useful to the homosexual movement.

 

How does Greenberg attempt to prove his thesis? By trotting before the reader a staggering assemblage of examples of how different societies, ancient and modern, have unconsciously encouraged or discouraged various forms and interpretations of homosexual behavior. In the early chapters, Greenberg develops a typology of homosexual relations. The first three types can be found in primitive societies where kinship is central to the social structure. The fourth is found primarily in archaic civilizations.

 

Transgenerational homosexuality is found in primitive societies where homosexual relations occur between a young male and an older teacher or tribal holy man. Here homosexuality is transitional, part of the initiation into adulthood of the younger male; it comes to an end when the boy is inducted into marriage. Transgender homosexuality occurs in some primitive societies where certain men dress up as women and sometimes provide sexual services. Greenberg believes this form tends to occur in matrilineal societies where women hold considerable power. Egalitarian homosexuality occurs between peers who are relatively equal in age and social power. This occurs among children, to some degree, in most societies. In primitive societies, however, it was a transitional and not lifelong phenomenon--not an exclusive mode of sexual behavior. Greenberg believes that homosexual behavior for many people in primitive societies was a kind of sideline, coexisting more or less freely in people who were predominantly heterosexual as adults.

 

Transclass homosexuality occurred in more differentiated and hierarchically organized archaic civilizations. Here homosexuality took the form of older, free or wealthy males relating to the young, the weak, the poor or the unfree. Ancient Greek and, to a lesser degree, Roman societies serve as the best examples. In ancient Greece, free men almost universally developed pederastic relations with young boys who were passive and submissive until they matured, got married, and then probably themselves demonstrated their freedom and assertiveness by finding younger, passive sexual partners of the same sex. Greenberg believes these arrangements lasted in ancient Greece until women developed more power, wealth and independence and gradually demanded an end to their husbands' extracurricular sexual activities.

 

Greenberg suggests that the idea of a stable, lifelong homosexual identity is an invention of modern Western societies. He agrees with the French theorist Michael Foucault that "it was the production and dissemination of a medical discourse in the recent past that gave birth not just to the concept of a homosexual person, but also to homosexuals themselves, and at the same time, to their antitwins, heterosexual persons. In the beginning was the word!"

 

But the height of homosexual persecution, Greenberg believes, came much earlier, during the Middle Ages -- in part the unintended consequence of the requirement of celibacy for the priesthood of the Catholic Church. With the elimination of heterosexual outlets, same-sex expression was bound to develop. The Catholic Church reacted to homosexuality in both the priesthood and the laity by imposing stricter and stricter penalties. Eventually churches fought for civil punishment of homosexuality, including the death penalty.

 

In the modern world, such repressive measures gradually weakened. Several forces in modern societies worked not only to liberalize attitudes but to develop the social logics that created both modern homosexual identity and more tolerant attitudes toward it. To grasp how these forces worked, one must understand that Greenberg accepts the anthropological insight, shared by Freudians and most sexologists, that human sexuality is extremely plastic and innately nonspecific with regard to sexual objects. All of us, according to Greenberg, have the capacity

 

to be sexually attracted to members of the same sex. Whether or not these feelings are labeled as such and organized into overt behaviors and lifelong identities is a result of a wide combination of social and cultural dynamics.

 

What are some of these social forces and social logics? Urbanization, science, medicine and bureaucracy are among the ones Greenberg discusses most thoroughly. Urbanization erodes the communal guidance of rural and village life and throws young people of the same sex into specialized contacts. Their diffuse sexual feelings may be excited by same-sex contacts, and they may gradually come to label their sexual feelings, and finally even themselves, as homosexual rather than heterosexual.

 

Science contributes to the development of the modern homosexual identity by inviting people to think in deterministic ways about their feelings: if people sense within themselves homosexual feelings, they are more likely to interpret these feelings as inevitable and as determined by some necessary biological or psychological force. Not only science in general, but the rise of the specialized disciplines of sexology, Darwinist biology, medical psychology and psychoanalysis, have contributed to the development of the homosexual identity. Greenberg's chapter on "The Medicalization of Homosexuality" is a brilliant catalog of the various theories--inheritance, degeneracy, childhood deprivations, masturbation, biological determination--advanced during the 19th and 20th centuries as scientific explanations of homosexuality. Greenberg's point, which others have made as well, is that these specialized disciplines have helped provide the categories, explanations and social attitudes that have contributed to the creation of modern enduring gay and lesbian identities. How many young people today grow up trying to label their subjective sexual feelings somewhere along the continuum of Kinsey's homosexual-bisexual-heterosexual scale? Here, says Greenberg, social science functions as a source of social identity.

 

Bureaucratization has made its own contribution. It has depersonalized social controls based on family and community ties and has contributed to the continuing negative attitudes that society holds toward homosexuality -- the rationalistic and efficiency-oriented character of modern bureaucracies is thought by most of society to be inconsistent with more diffuse forms of sexual expression that homosexuality suggests to many people.

 

Greenberg admits that Judaism and early Christianity took a negative view of homosexuality. This view had its roots in the desert God Yahweh's antagonism to sacred male prostitution, which was prevalent in the pagan nature religions that competed with Israel. These attitudes were deepened, Greenberg argues, during the Babylonian exile when Israel was influenced by the extreme antipathy to homosexuality found in Zoroastrianism. It was during this time that the priestly Leviticus codes were formulated. Nowhere in his discussion of ancient Israel or early Christianity does Greenberg deal with theological interpretations of scripture in those traditions.

 

Greek and Roman societies gradually lost their earlier enthusiasm for homosexuality. Political disappointments in Greek societies led to a new pessimism in Epicurean and Stoic philosophy. A new skepticism about passion arose, a skepticism that eventually culminated in more negative attitudes toward homosexual passion. Later still, as mentioned above, women began to assert their objections to male homosexual practices. One of the disappointments of the book is that this intriguing point about the role of women is emphasized but not sufficiently elaborated. It is also a deficiency that Greenberg tells the story of male homosexuality with little attention to lesbianism

 

Greenberg is aware that his constructivist perspective may be used against the homosexual movement, but he believes that his first obligation is to the truth. From his perspective, the idea of a static homosexual orientation or essence simply does not hold up against the huge variety of homosexual, bisexual and heterosexual patterns. Not only does Greenberg cover Western societies, but he is constantly making excursions to China, Japan and South America as well. Everywhere he finds significant variations in the prevalence of homosexuality, depending on the social logics of different societies. At one point he indulges in a thought-experiment with reference to certain New Guinea tribes where ritual homosexual practices with young boys are normative.

 

It is reasonable to suppose that if a bunch of Melanesian infants were to be transported in infancy to the United States and adopted few would seek out the pederastic relationships into which they are inducted in New Guinea, or take younger homosexual partners when they reach maturity. Similarly, American children raised in New Guinea would accommodate themselves to the Melanesian practices.

 

Greenberg is aware of the comfort that essentialist theories of homosexuality have given the gay and lesbian movements

 

When heterosexual chauvinists have told homosexuals to change, essentialist theories have provided a ready response: I can't. When parents have sought to bar homosexual teachers from the classroom lest their children (horror of horrors) become homosexual, essentialist theories have provided a seemingly authoritative basis for denying the possibility.

 

In response to these concerns, Greenberg says,

 

The present study is concerned only with scientific concerns and cannot make concessions to such opportunistic considerations. It should be pointed out, though, that nothing in the social-constructivist position legitimates the denial of rights . . . Assertive gay liberationists have argued that it may be strategically wiser to concede the possibility that a few students might be influenced to become gay by having an openly gay teacher as a role model, and to say, "So what?"

 

It is clear that this is a stance that Greenberg endorses. In the nooks and crannies of Greenberg's huge study one can discern this outlook: homosexual and bisexual behavior probably is spreading to larger portions of the society, and this constitutes no basic threat. This horizon of values surrounding and animating Greenberg's book may evoke even deeper controversy than his central thesis.

 

Greenberg's work challenges the presuppositions of nearly all recent discussions of homosexuality in both Protestant and Catholic churches. Nearly all official statements on homosexuality by these churches in recent years have adopted some version of the essentialist view of homosexuality. It is interesting to think how this has happened in view of the fact that there are articulate intellectuals in both the gay and lesbian communities who have published views similar to Greenberg's. Gay author Dennis Altman has denied the essentialist view and declared that the homosexual movement is a direct continuation of the counterculture's move toward a freer and more inclusive bisexuality (a position similar to the one held by Foucault). This is true, he argues, whether or not individual gays and lesbians recognize it in their own experience. And for some years, certain feminist lesbians have characterized their lesbianism as a political act rather than an orientation. In spite of these testimonies, the churches have for the most part bought variations of the essentialist view put forth by the modern medical and mental health disciplines.

 

It is difficult to anticipate how the debate will proceed if the churches take seriously Greenberg's argument. His thesis about the social construction of homosexuality can be placed within a variety of ethical and theological frameworks. Some evangelicals will doubtless say that Greenberg's work confirms their deepest fears: homosexuality can grow, and the church's stance against it is essential if the homosexual movement is to be contained. Mainline denominations will be thrown into a state of confusion possibly more profound than the one that now besets them. Accepting Greenberg's thesis might suggest that the new tolerance of these churches, especially the move toward the ordination of homosexuals, is one more way modern societies help create, not just liberate, individuals with gay and lesbian identities. And then there will be those who will argue that the church has no special theological stake in heterosexuality and should open itself to all possible loving sexual combinations, however they may be evolving in modern societies. Regardless of how these debates may develop, it is clear that Greenberg's work challenges assumptions on all sides. The terms of the discussion may never be the same.

[Swindle]

blah blah blah blah blah The paper is for the gubernatorial race

 

i stopped reading after this. i have no idea what it means

[DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER]

acer's about to take off his shoe!!!!!!

 

OH SHIT

 

 

 

[TheoHuxtable..]

[DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER]

^Somebody should seriously shoot that fucking moron.

 

Or at least introduce him to the Doc Martin Dental Plan.

[Swindle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHHT7dTmw8U

 

hope this helps

[TheoHuxtable..]

^Somebody should seriously shoot that fucking moron.

 

Or at least introduce him to the Doc Martin Dental Plan.

 

Dude's a maniac. You ever seen his show? It's like a big acid trip. Nigga was eating pudding on the air. Then he gets on that chalkboard and starts drawing symbols & arrows like Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, trying to connect Obama to being a socialist terrorist Nazi.

[DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER]

Dude's a maniac. You ever seen his show? It's like a big acid trip. Nigga was eating pudding on the air. Then he gets on that chalkboard and starts drawing symbols & arrows like Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, trying to connect Obama to being a socialist terrorist Nazi.

 

 

And people actually eat that shit up.

 

I wanna bust people in they mouths sometimes. /nh

[FruityLexia.]

Stop smoking so much weed and do some fucking work.

[KITTENS]

you consulted your shithead graffiti chat e-friend fucks for information on non shithead graffiti chat e-friendfuck information.

 

 

you'd be a pretty site for your mother you would

[the.crooked]

Swindle-

 

gubernatorial: governor

 

 

FYI

[Mercer]

I'm no mathematician but...

 

By my calculations, the chances of someone in channel zero writing a paper on some borderline boringest shit ever,

without money or irl tits on the face involved is 0.0000000000000001%