Seriously with the book banning ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.

Is it?

Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.

The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.

OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP

Okay?

“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.

Your party is fascist.

So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.

Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.

There’s too much stupid here.

Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.

Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.

Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.

Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.

But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just pointing out that despite being deeply dissatisfied with the school board’s COVID chaos, Fairfax County appears to have just voted the same group back into office for another 4 years— 12-0D— in large part because the R candidates ran heavily on book banning and making life difficult for trans kids. And there are plenty of people who would have voted R if Rs had focused on education instead of book banning and LGBTQ kids. Because the incumbents voted back in were not beloved. Or even liked. They are just better than 4 years of Mothers of Liberty running school libraries.

This is simply what Democrats do - vote in the same nutters over and over again. If even ONE Republican had been elected to the SB, that would have provided at least a tiny bit of balance. But no. We are destined to relive four more painfully unproductive years, putting academics at the very bottom of a laundry list filled with social issues. No one to blame but yourselves.

You guys ran on banning books and hating trans kids. That’s not academics, that’s wing nut.

We've already debunked your idiot "banning" books - now do tell us how we ran on "hating trans kids." Provide specific examples.

You could just bop over to the election results thread and read all the voters who were disgusted with the fascist extremism in your party. You’re not very popular tonight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.

Is it?

Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.

The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.

OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP

Okay?

“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.

Your party is fascist.

So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.

Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.

There’s too much stupid here.

Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.

Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.

Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.

Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.

But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!

Yes, dear. https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzjbn/florida-teacher-fired-for-viral-video-library-desantis#

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.

Is it?

Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.

The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.

OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP

Okay?

“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.

Your party is fascist.

So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.

Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.

Will students be able to check out To Kill a Mockingbird from the school library if they want to, even if teachers don't put it in the curriculum? Yes or no?

Will students be able to read gender queer at the local public library or Barnes and noble even if it’s not at school? Yes or no?

Exactly. No one has "banned" that book, or any other. It's widely available. Lucky us! /s

[Anonymous]

Ahh. I love the smell of Republicans trying to cope with the smackdown they’ve received.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just pointing out that despite being deeply dissatisfied with the school board’s COVID chaos, Fairfax County appears to have just voted the same group back into office for another 4 years— 12-0D— in large part because the R candidates ran heavily on book banning and making life difficult for trans kids. And there are plenty of people who would have voted R if Rs had focused on education instead of book banning and LGBTQ kids. Because the incumbents voted back in we’re not beloved. Or even liked. They are just better than 4 years of Mothers of Liberty running school libraries.

This is simply what Democrats do - vote in the same nutters over and over again. If even ONE Republican had been elected to the SB, that would have provided at least a tiny bit of balance. But no. We are destined to relive four more painfully unproductive years, putting academics at the very bottom of a laundry list filled with social issues. No one to blame but yourselves.

Hey, I wanted to vote my Dem Rep out. But not for someone whose top priority, in the top 3 list they gave ballotpedia, was book banning. Im sorry— protecting our children from porn And whose second priority was harassing trans kids. Sorry. Protecting girls sports. So my R option put their top two issues as social issues. Ones I find abhorrent, BTW. I had a kid spend junior year taking 5 APs in my basement. I have no issue voting Dems out. But the book banner transphobe was not going to focus on education over social issues either. I know this because she said so in her written survey. So my choice was relatively benign social issues vs awful social issues. No one was talking about academics.

I did vote for the independent STEM teacher who ran for the at large seat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.

Is it?

Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.

The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.

OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP

Okay?

“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.

Your party is fascist.

So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.

Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.

There’s too much stupid here.

Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.

Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.

Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.

Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.

But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!

A reminder if anyone wants to read excerpts of Gender Queer that the PP's parents would have fainted over. https://redgoldsparkspress.com/projects/6926504

Meanwhile my parents had a copy of Aubrey Beardsley's Venus and Tannhauser lying around the house and boy was THAT interesting to a 7th grader, lol. Oh my.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.

Is it?

Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.

The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.

OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP

Okay?

“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.

Your party is fascist.

So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.

Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.

There’s too much stupid here.

Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.

Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.

Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.

Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.

But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!

Yes, dear. https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzjbn/florida-teacher-fired-for-viral-video-library-desantis#

So this was when Florida librarians were told to go through all the books to make sure they were appropriate, yes? A huge overreach, I agree - but that was only temporary. Surely you know this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ahh. I love the smell of Republicans trying to cope with the smackdown they’ve received.

Ha - no one was actually expecting Republicans to win in this area, dope. It's business as usual - that is, insanity as usual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just pointing out that despite being deeply dissatisfied with the school board’s COVID chaos, Fairfax County appears to have just voted the same group back into office for another 4 years— 12-0D— in large part because the R candidates ran heavily on book banning and making life difficult for trans kids. And there are plenty of people who would have voted R if Rs had focused on education instead of book banning and LGBTQ kids. Because the incumbents voted back in were not beloved. Or even liked. They are just better than 4 years of Mothers of Liberty running school libraries.

This is simply what Democrats do - vote in the same nutters over and over again. If even ONE Republican had been elected to the SB, that would have provided at least a tiny bit of balance. But no. We are destined to relive four more painfully unproductive years, putting academics at the very bottom of a laundry list filled with social issues. No one to blame but yourselves.

You guys ran on banning books and hating trans kids. That’s not academics, that’s wing nut.

We've already debunked your idiot "banning" books - now do tell us how we ran on "hating trans kids." Provide specific examples.

You could just bop over to the election results thread and read all the voters who were disgusted with the fascist extremism in your party. You’re not very popular tonight.

So zero examples, as suspected. Your LOVE to blab away about things that aren't actually happening, don't you? Helps to bolster your narrative, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.

Is it?

Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.

The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.

OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP

Okay?

“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.

Your party is fascist.

So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.

Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and [b]burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.[/b]

Will students be able to check out To Kill a Mockingbird from the school library if they want to, even if teachers don't put it in the curriculum? Yes or no?

I don't know the answer to that question, but bravo on deflecting from the question YOU were asked first. Still waiting on an answer and specific examples.

And yet you refuse to answer the question of where the sex acts in Maus are. Or how deciding to not demand To Kill a Mockingbird be in a school curriculum is the exact same thing as removing it from a school entirely so any kid who wanted to read it would have to go out of their way to find a copy.

Still waiting on an answer for both those.

JFC. YOU ARE TALKING TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. I never said anything about Hustler or Maus. And it's clear that you aren't able to answer the question asked of you, bolded for your convenience. Noted.

You are also talking to different people.

Watch any DeSantis video on his idiotic book bans. Smug is basically politician giddy. That dumb ducker’s smug and giddy as hell about banning books. Or he was when he thought it would get him to be the nominee.

And this fella in Missouri was pretty excited about book burning too, until he got some negative blowback and decided to call it figurative. https://apnews.com/article/flamethrower-missouri-governor-candidate-violent-6055f2c73bc10c8c58fae1d161c9c91e

There. You are wrong and I am right and banning books is fascist.

So, to recap:
Someone who is NOT an elected Republican was burning cardboard boxes. He did not burn books and he was not an elected Republican. So I was right and your were wrong, as expected.

As for your comments about DeSantis, they are illegible. I have no comment on illegible garbage, except do better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just pointing out that despite being deeply dissatisfied with the school board’s COVID chaos, Fairfax County appears to have just voted the same group back into office for another 4 years— 12-0D— in large part because the R candidates ran heavily on book banning and making life difficult for trans kids. And there are plenty of people who would have voted R if Rs had focused on education instead of book banning and LGBTQ kids. Because the incumbents voted back in we’re not beloved. Or even liked. They are just better than 4 years of Mothers of Liberty running school libraries.

This is simply what Democrats do - vote in the same nutters over and over again. If even ONE Republican had been elected to the SB, that would have provided at least a tiny bit of balance. But no. We are destined to relive four more painfully unproductive years, putting academics at the very bottom of a laundry list filled with social issues. No one to blame but yourselves.

Hey, I wanted to vote my Dem Rep out. But not for someone whose top priority, in the top 3 list they gave ballotpedia, was book banning. Im sorry— protecting our children from porn And whose second priority was harassing trans kids. Sorry. Protecting girls sports. So my R option put their top two issues as social issues. Ones I find abhorrent, BTW. I had a kid spend junior year taking 5 APs in my basement. I have no issue voting Dems out. But the book banner transphobe was not going to focus on education over social issues either. I know this because she said so in her written survey. So my choice was relatively benign social issues vs awful social issues. No one was talking about academics.

I did vote for the independent STEM teacher who ran for the at large seat.

So - in your mind - protecting girls' sports = harassing trans kids. Got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.

Is it?

Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.

The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.

OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP

Okay?

“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.

Your party is fascist.

So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.

Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.

There’s too much stupid here.

Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.

Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.

Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.

Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.

But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!

Meh. My parents were more concerned about exposure to violence than sex. They thought it way more damaging for kids. And I suspect they were right.

And my Catholic high school had sophomores watch Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. The nuns had no problems with 14 year olds seeing the nude scene with its implications of a sex act. Sorry your parents were such puritans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.

Is it?

Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.

The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.

OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP

Okay?

“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.

Your party is fascist.

So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.

Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.

There’s too much stupid here.

Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.

Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.

Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.

Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.

But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!

Yes, dear. https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzjbn/florida-teacher-fired-for-viral-video-library-desantis#

So this was when Florida librarians were told to go through all the books to make sure they were appropriate, yes? A huge overreach, I agree - but that was only temporary. Surely you know this.

Oh, and ONE school temporarily reviewing books does not equal "Republicans stripping away age-appropriate books out of schools altogether." What a hoot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Awfully quiet in here.

Is it?

Sounds like teachers don’t think that book is a useful resource in the classroom anymore. That’s not banning.

The struggle for fascists to feel like not fascists is real, I’m sure, but I also think you guys are currently beyond redemption.

OMG. I can't even with your moving the goalposts every time Democrats are caught being hypocrites - which is every single day. You people are such a joke.
DP

Okay?

“Banning” is a real word with a specific meaning. What these teachers did isn’t “banning.” What the Orwellian named “Moms for Liberty” is doing is banning. Several elected Republicans have been giddy about banning and burning books.

Your party is fascist.

So - just to be clear - you consider keeping school libraries full of AGE-APPROPRIATE books to be "banning," even though the books in question are widely available at any bookstore, public library, Amazon, etc. But somehow, teachers saying "To Kill a Mockingbird" is inappropriate and will not be part of the required curriculum, is NOT banning.

Also, exactly which elected Republican is "giddy about banning and burning books"? We'll wait while you dredge up some BS from a LWNJ propaganda site.

There’s too much stupid here.

Republicans have stripped the age appropriate books out of schools altogether, including school libraries. Republicans are trying to strip public libraries of funding, another way to de facto ban books.

Specific teachers in specific classes in one school listened to their students’ reservations about one book. No, that’s not banning. That’s removing that book from the curriculum.

Maybe if your parents had instilled a sense of courage and a love of reading you’d understand what you are.

Speaking of stupid ^^. I was pretty much raised at the library - and before a library was built in our area, I was a bookmobile fanatic. I grew up on books. But I can assure you, if a book like "Gender Queer" had found its way into my hands, my parents would absolutely have removed it and told me it would have to wait until I was an adult.

But I do love the absolute hysteria and hyperbole in your post. The bolded, especially, made me laugh out loud. So you're saying that school libraries are empty? No books? Interesting!

Meh. My parents were more concerned about exposure to violence than sex. They thought it way more damaging for kids. And I suspect they were right.

And my Catholic high school had sophomores watch Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. The nuns had no problems with 14 year olds seeing the nude scene with its implications of a sex act. Sorry your parents were such puritans.

Meh. My parents were hardly Puritans. Sorry your parents were such prisses.