Ah, it works just fine.
Hey, merry! Down, derry!
Sucking hobbit dicks
Don’t tell Goldberry
Tom’s a-turning tricks
{It probably sounds better in Elvish}
All I want to know is does this woman read romance novels or watch soap operas?
CJ
Shock! Horror! A story where a girl refuses to provide sexual favours to a boy asking for it! :eek:
[insert obligatory “I’m no prude but…” disclaimer] After having my 37-year-old ears and sensitivites blistered by overhearing a conversation between some 15-year-olds on the bus, I strongly feel that stories which give the message that it’s OK to say no if you don’t feel like having sex are a Very Good Thing.
Oh, and I strongly disagree with those who say that parents should be able to shelter their children from parts of the school curriculum. I may not be overjoyed that my children learn stories about horrible mass murders at age 7, but there’s no doubt that these stories are an important part of our cultural heritage. And while I feel revulsion at the moral in some of those stories, I’m confident that the upbringing given at home will be a good ballast against excesses. (Aided by an occasional comment to the specific stories learnt at school, such as “Do you think it was fair of God to kill the Egyptians’ firstborn children? What wrong had the children done?”)
My school (Penn State) has a list hanging up of the books that have the most attempted bannings. I see it as a personal challenge to read some of the one’s I haven’t read. I’m not really interested in reading some of the books more geared to children, but there were a few that looked like something I would be interested in.
Yes sure. Especialy when the issue is a couple sentence on page 243 mentionning sex. Can you imagine the mess if each pair of parents was requiring an alternative book on such a basis?
-God is mentionned in the book. That’s proselytism. I don’t want my kid to read that.
-All the characters are straight. That’s homophobic. I demand another book.
-The main character is a democrat. That’s political propaganda. Another book, please.
- Why is the brand of the car mentionned? Hidden advertisement. I want another book.
-The female characters aren’t very pleasant. The book must have been written by a sexist pig. I want an alternate otpion.
-On page 46, the guy is punched in the face. I don’t want my son to be exposed to violence.
-I don’t like the book. My kid doesn’t need to waste his time readind this crap. Give him a good book to read. Here’s the list of the 7 books I wouldn’t mind him reading.
Actually, it would be interesting to know in which countries exactly marriage between cousins is frowned upon. I’d guess it’s a small minority. I personnally never had an “eek factor” related to cousins having sex or marrying and don’t remember anybody mentionning they’re finding this distasteful (of course, I rarely discussed this issue, but I still don’t think it’s perceived in a particularily negative way over here).
I just spit on my monitor while laughing…thank you.
Is that list publicly available?
She is seventeen. Seventeen. She’ll be pregnant within 2 years. The mother should be arrested for incompetent parenting.
I’ve always percieved an “eek” factor here in Canada although the subject doesn’t come up very often. Come to think of it I had always assumed that “cousin” was listed in the Table of Kindred and Affinity (which I read for kicks a lot while stuck in church), but now I see that it isn’t.
But it’s interesting to see your location in the context of the question. A (French) friend of mine once slept with her cousin. Later, she was courting a(n English) fellow who, when he found out about it, was absolutely horrified and refused to have anything to do with her.
You must be thinking of the Lord of the G-Strings. And they’re called Throbbits.
(Yes, that’s a real porn movie.)
Every parent has the right to customize the curriculum for their child?
Ban Hawthorne?
(draws sword)
Yes, imagine being confronted with ideas and expressions of feeling with which you do not agree. It is so unreasonable to make kids think and understand things. No part of the learning process, that!
Heh, you reminded me of a time i was talknig with a friend of mine (we’ll call her Jen (n ot real name))
Me: What are you up to tonight?
Jen: Nothing. I’m not going out, cause both Carrie and Leslie are gone.
Me: Oh.
Jen: Yeah, Carrie is working, and Leslie is in Georgia fucking her cousin.
Me: :eek: She’s what?
Jen: Having sex with her cousin
Me:…:eek:
Jen: No no, it’s OK, because she’s adopted. So just cousin by law, not by blood.
Me: Well…that’s less icky…but still! Her cousin! Eww!
So yeah, count me in on the “cousin=icky” crowd. But getting back to the OP
Seriously, this women is just an idiot. An alternate book? Hello, McFly! Think for a minute. So the girl reads a different book. How can she aprticiapte in class discussions? She can’t realyl get credit for that, and she doesn’t get anything out of it. A teacher assigning a book to read usually wants the student to do more than just read the book,. they want them to think about it, talk about it, and hear other people talking about it so they can see different viewpoints, see how others saw a certain passage, and so forth, ESPECIALLY in an advanced class like an IB or AP.
1900s! How YOU doin, Ivylass? 
So THAT’S what the stuff about the “burning bush” was about. Got it …
But if that happens, the kids will just go out and practice farmyard family sado-sex orgies … unsafely. However you do that.
In any event, your argument is a big fat red herring. Show me some real porn assigned as reading to high school students and I’ll bother to raise and eyebrow.