You can raise your child however you see fit - that’s your right. But it’s my right to call you a moron on an internet message board. This woman says that a four passage exerpt in the book her 17 year old daughter is reading is pornography because it portrays an act of oral sex. Furthermore this woman doesn’t just want her kid to not read it but ALL the kids in the county.
Are you fucking kidding me??? :smack: Do you actually think your lovely 17 year old high school junior does not know what a blow job is? Give me a fucking break lady. Is reading a book that has ONE FUCKING PASSAGE about a sexual act going to taint your daughter and keep her sin free?
What good does banning books actually do you nazi cow! It’s people like you who hold children back from learing about the real world and the real things that happen in it!
Fuck you!
Yes I am very bitter at people who ban books, and who try and push their dumb ass beliefs of others. Do it to kids and you are a fuck tard in my book.
That and the girl had no alternate book offered to her. While book banning is of course wrong, I think a parent has the right to choose what books her own child is required to read while in school.
Yeah I read the article more that the Mom wanted a different book assigned, the school tried all it could do to avoid doing so. Now mom is just being as awkward as possible to get revenge.
It seems rediculous that the school coul;dn’t provide alternative literature, I’m sure plenty of people of Indian subcontinent herritage would be upset about such a book if it disagreed with their own views/experiences of the India/Pakistan breakup.
Imagine having a novelised book about life during Israel’s formation, it may be great literature bout it is bound to be offensive to some.
Or imagine having to read “Satanic Verses” or “The Red Tent” with no alternative non-religious options.
What makes it even better is that the book doesn’t portray an act of oral sex – unless you extend the definition of “oral” to “having to do with the spoken word.”
The protagonist’s cousin propositions her. She tells him to forget about it, because it’s never gonna happen. Shock, horror!
Right. That’s why it’s required reading in schools in that hotbed of licentious liberalism, Pakistan. Yes, Pakistan is a libertine society that encourages all manner of salacious entertainment. Uh-huh. Pull the other one. And how long before you’re finished sewing your daughter’s nice new school burkah, Mrs. Reed?
“Pornography.” Right. I can easily imagine all those innocent American youths leafing through hundreds of pages of red herrings about ethnic cleansing and sectarian violence to get to the hot stuff they can masturbate to – like the bits with a young woman remaining chaste. That is so hot.
As for there being no alternate – big deal. The point is, the book is not lewd, by any reasonable measure. The objection was unreasonable, and there’s no reason that the people who designed the course might have expected anyone to object. If that book was titillating enough to trigger an objection, it would be very difficult to find any work of literature that would meet the criterion of total asexuality that also provided the specific background that later portions of the course depended on.
I just hope the woman doesn’t try to pull her kid from that school. The International Baccalaureate program is definitely worth it, and it would be so wrong to deny her a chance to learn just because Mommy’s icked out by a couple pages of an assigned book.
The point of a literature course is to read something and think about it, discuss it, and pull it apart to see how it works inside. You can’t expect people to be reading the same 5 novels until the end of time!
The best part is, if the IB program there is like the one I did, the students are going to have a blast discussing the ethical implications of book-banning.
My grad school hosted a constitutional law panel discussion on book-banning. One of the panel members was the woman who had started the latest uproar, I believe about some Judy Blume book. This self-righteous twit made the mistake of quoting the Bible at my constitutional law professor, who was also an ordained minister.
Heeheehee. Big mistake. Never quote the Bible at someone who knows it better than you do. He tied that bitch in knots and left her squirming gently on the stage.
After hearing that the Captain Underpants series of childrens’ books is one of the primary targets of book bannings in school districts across the country, nothing these nutjobs do surprises me any more.
After hearing no actual sex is discribed in the book in question, I take back any minor support I may have had for the womans case. Still I think alternative books should be available on general principal.
I couldn’t disagree more. Parents have the right to put their kid in a different school if they don’t like how the current one is teaching, or teach their kid themselves at home if they want to prevent him/her from learning certain things. Demanding that a school tailor its curriculum to their preferences puts a huge, unnecessary roadblock in front of the already difficult task of public education.
Okay, I retract this somewhat, having hunted down the actual passage. I had assumed that, because it is uncontroversial in Pakistan, it must be extremely oblique. Not so much.
I’d still recommend a nice hot cup of Get The Fuck Over It, but at the same time I can see that a certain type of person might be shocked to their very soul by such a frank description. There is some manual genital contact, but the cousin is inept and the protagonist is totally naive and innocent. It’s definitely not erotic.
