Monday, June 04, 2007

That's not the "danger;" it's the point

There was an interesting article in Isthmus last week (which the editor was nice enough to send me) about a woman who is fighting poverty by teaching relationship skills with a decided emphasis on marriage and the "delaying" of sex (she doesn't use the term "abstinence.") Regular readers of this blog will know that I think this is good stuff.

What struck me about the article though was a quote attributed to Bradford Brown, a psychologist at UW-Madison.

“There’s a certain value orientation in it,” he says. “There’s a danger in imposing a set of values not consistent with someone’s cultural beliefs or personal beliefs.”

I guess he must not believe in diversity training either.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:04 AM

    If you have a link to the article, please post. The offending quote is so devoid of context, its impossible to know what its intended to mean.

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  2. Anonymous2:43 PM

    Brown’s use of the word impose seems out of place in the discussion.

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