The Da Vinci Code is thoroughly PC and right in step with the increasing feminization of this society.
It’s no secret why Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is the biggest mystery/thriller since the JFK assassination: it tickles the collective fancies of groups as varied as conspiracy theorists, art history buffs, puzzle enthusiasts and Europhiles.…
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26 - lori
If it's truly intended as fiction, why don't you see Dan Brown loudly declare, "Hey, it's all bullshit! I made it up! It's a kick-ass story, but none of it's true! Seriously, I made it all up!"
Because he'd sell fewer books. It's called salesmanship and/or marketing. He's banking, literally, on the reality that most readers won't know where the facts end and the fiction begins.
Every time someone claims Brown is attacking Christianity, God puts another dollar in Brown's pocket.
27 - RogerMDillon
When can we start reading "'The Omen' isn't true" posts?
28 - Silas Kain
What came first? The womb or the scrotum?
29 - Mr. Real Estate
Controversy sells, and brings more readers (like to your posts). If it's hot, even better. Go against the grain on a popular subject. Get attention, sell real estate, err, books and movies.
:::::winks::::::::: ;)
30 - joan boo!!
Mr. McKay:
I stand by my original post. To wit:
"Beware all this talk of men getting in touch with their feminine sides; that entire notion is woman-talk and is usually a smokescreen intended to make men feel embarrassed."
When i say it's "woman talk," I don't mean that women are inferior or secondary. It's that "woman talk" is, by nature, different from "man talk." it's the reason why, all things being equal, one man and one woman can walk tino target looking for a plunger and the man will make a bee-line to the plunger aisle while the woman will stop at, ohI don't know, every conceivable aisle looking at everying BUT plungers.
Men are hunters; women are gatherers. That's racial memory. It's in our genes. It's been here far longer than universal suffrage, far longer than stay-home dads, far longer than the view.
As is the fact that, all things being equal, women talk more than men. Far, far more than men. Just observe. It's as plain as the crack-filled lungs of Marion Barry.
Does that make it wrong? Does that make one gender inferior? No. Hell no. It does, however, make them different. And the plain fact is that only in the past 10 years, or maybe 20, has it become fashionable for men to talk about getting in touch with their feelings and embracing their feminine side.
And that is "woman talk." Because, left to their own devices, most men would choose one of two options: fuck or fight. That's "man talk." it's why we have wars, the WWF, the super bowl and the stock market. It's competition, it's the battle of dominance. Emotions, sensitivity and "feelings," while not alien to men, are certainly foreign. The minute they begin listening to those monkeys in their head, the sooner they begin questioning their essential natures.
Again: not necessarily bad. But something to be wary of. Wary as in "to consider." not wary as in "think this way and you're a pussy."
The instant men begin thinking like women, and vice versa, objectivity becomes subjectivity and moral relavitsm creeps into the analysis.
I don't see how that makes me Tom Leykis.
To: the poster that implies I blame women for the problems with the culture. I don't: I blame men who subscribe to any way of thinking that doesn't stem from their essential nature, those who think that the way they're wired is somehow wrong.
It's not. Choices are destrutive who we are is not.
Blubber, vacillate and blindly attack all you want. The simple fact is men have forgotten how to be men and, most importantly for the species, how to father. Most men. Not all. They have forgotten because the lilt in this society is to feminize masculine natures. To feel embarassed about being men.
And, somehow--i think--the Da Vinci Code operates on that level.
I could be wrong; i usually am. But, as any woman will tell you, i can't apologize for my feelings now, can I?
31 - RogerMDillon
"As is the fact that, all things being equal, women talk more than men. Far, far more than men. Just observe."
Just don't count the comments here by the author or the entire politics section or the great guitarist thread. Or talk radio.
32 - jo boo!
touche! But cut me a touch of slack. I'm a deaf mute.
33 - Guppusmaximus
Yeah... I think Yngwie Malmsteen should've composed the soundtrack...
34 - dave
it appears to me that if YHWH really exists and Christ really was who he claimed to be, God wouldn't leave out the who "da vinci" thing seeing as how it completely changes things. in my opinion, the bible is complete, everything we need is in there, nothings been omitted, and claimin jesus was something else is blaspheme...good day fuckers
35 - Christopher Dove
Joel- sorry to say, but your article has neither irony nor satire, it's just... stupid. It sounds like you were trying to disguise a real complaint of yours as "funny", and it didn't work. You come across as a guy who is so afraid of women, or who has been so hurt by one, that you look for reasons to hate them all.
As for men just wanting to either "fuck or fight"- speak for yourself, asshole. I'm a 32 year old man and there is a hell of a lot more to me than my penis and my "hunter instincts". A REAL man who is secure in his masculinity CAN feel, cry, love, talk, and whatever else he feels like without shame or being emasculated. This was taught to me by my father and grandfather; certainly not "woman-talk" and certainly not new. Maybe to YOUR society, but not mine.
It's only males who have issues with themselves that think they need to constantly drink beer, hunt, and objectify women to be "men".
Joel, get yourself a therapist- you've got women issues that ought to be resolved. Oh, and one more thing- stop speaking for all men, because you're making us look like a bunch of morons. Thanks.
36 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
I dunno guys (and gals),
Once you get past the formula of The Da Vinci Code (see comment #6), the book is as interesting as a "Goosebumps" book. Well, I'm not being fair. I know about the atbash code in the Hebrew Bible, and a lot of the other stuff that could fascinate people in this guy's word spiels.
But a formula book is a formula book is a formula book. And if you know someothing about the topics Brown writes about (and I do), then its all just pablum.
37 - jo boo!
to christopher dove:
Hmm, let's see. Your response was crude, nakedly aggressive, competitive in a grade school scholastic way--I'm right, you're wrong!--and actually defending the right of men to cry. [Deleted]
Or to quote mr. costello:
One of these days you're going to have a face
That deep dark truthful mirror
And it's going to tell you things
I still love you to much to say..."
Except i don't love you. [Deleted]
38 - Eli in Israel
The book made fun reading, but it definitely seems to be continuing the standard western fear of masculinity, of boys growing up and becoming men. (Yes, I do need a therapist, but that doesn't change the facts.)
According to the book, those who teach that a man was conceived without a human father and that he also never became a father are denying the Feminine!
This reversal at first led me to hope that Dan Brown was really hinting at the opposite. But considering the book's general tendency towards inaccuracies, I can buy the explanation that Brown had no message at all and just wanted to write a fun book that sells. Praise of the Feminine is what sells.