When people say sexuality is fluid they're usually implying that it's fluid for everyone. They usually say that Lisa Diamond's study is proof. I read that study and I don't think it really proved that sexuality itself is fluid. It proved that sexual identity and behavior is fluid for some women. Even if the study proved it's fluid, the majority of women had a stable identity. Is there any other quote you think is taken out of context?
Didn't read the source material or even know that "sexuality is fluid" is a quote but probably people were talking like me, on larger scale instead of personal scale of things. Whenever I say sexuality is fluid, humans have more varying types of sexual/gender identities than any other creatures in nature or heteronormative culture suggest.
No, the study didn't prove anything. A scientific study never proves anything. /goes off on a science rant With that off my chest, I have nothing else to contribute.
"Separation of church and state" This does not appear ANYWHERE in the constitution, The Bill of Rights, or The Declaration of Independence. It was in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Church. They had wrote him complaining that the laws made people tend towards a congregational church. In his letter he explained that it would benefit all Americans if the government didn't make any laws to decide how people should or shouldn't worship god or allow the church to influence any laws made. This would effectively make a barrier that created a separation of church and state. The phrase was meant to say that the government wouldn't rule the church and that the church (as an institution) shouldn't effect the government. Everybody seems to think that the phrase means that there should not be any sign of religion in any government institution. The truth is that most of the founding fathers were devout Christians and many of the basic ideas and principles that Americans hold dear are in fact based on religious teachings. I think they would find this ideas that you can't prey in school, or have the Ten Commandments on a courthouse, ECT appalling.
There is Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Thought. When you think about it, this should prevent a close connection between government and any church, because when one idea or dogma from one church is favoured, it goes against the beliefs of another church, religion or moral philosophy. Even then. That something is traditional (a close connection between church and government for instance), doesn't mean it should be kept. Or do you think anti-sodomy laws should be kept because they were traditional?
No I don't think things should be kept just because they are traditional. I don't believe in god. That said I have no problem with things like a courthouse displaying the 10 commandments on the front of the building. They are the basic ideas that are the foundation of law. I don't know them all, but I don't think hardly anyone has a problem with thou shall not kill, steal, or lie. We call these murder, theft, and purgery. Adultery is kinda outdated but it is the foundation for rape. The ones about put no other god... and not worshipping an idol I can simply ignore. The point is that people take the quote out of context and try to use it in ways in which the quote was never intended.
"All art is quite useless." written by Oscar Wilde in the preface to "A Picture of Dorian Gray". Of course, taking it out of context is what Wilde wanted, that's just his style.
People think all women are fluid because a) straight women are more likely to explore (which has to do with culture, lesbian sex not being seen as 'real', seen as 'cool' to impress guys and seen as a fad, meanwhile straight men do the same thing with guys but stay quiet about it) and b) Women are factually aroused to all genders in pornographic situations (But who says that means we want to sleep with them??) As for quotes....I'll get back to you on that.
"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" Most people who use this quote don't even know what "wherefore" means because the don't know what's happening in the scene at all. "To be or not to be. That IS the question" First of all everyone says this wrong. Second of all this is an extremely deep and meaningful quote yet we have become to desensitized and uncomprehending of it as a society. Think about it to be or not to fucking BE! Shit just got real.
I'm pretty sure everything is taken out of context, manipulated, misunderstood, twisted, slanted, and everything else. You could say "hats go on your head," and have a million different interpretations and analyses and whatnot from all different directions. My personal favorite is the misinterpretation of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. The moral of the story is not "don't be gay", it's "don't be an inhospitable cutthroat bastard with no respect for a single damn thing" or something to that effect.
