Seriously with the book banning ?

[Anonymous]

Surely I was the only 11 year old dry humping herself while reading Flowers in the Attic?!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously with the book banning.

Yep, at a city library this time.

Tell us again, republicans, how you have nothing in common with the Nazis. Nothing at all. You’re certainly not fascist at all. Not a bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Surely I was the only 11 year old dry humping herself while reading Flowers in the Attic?!?

You were not the only one.

[Anonymous]

Seriously with the book banning and also, associated harassment and violence!

[Anonymous]

The GOP is fascist. Of course they have to harass and threaten people who don’t think like they do, especially people who are smarter.

What am I saying, everyone is smarter than GOP fascists are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The GOP is fascist. Of course they have to harass and threaten people who don’t think like they do, especially people who are smarter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The GOP is fascist. Of course they have to harass and threaten people who don’t think like they do, especially people who are smarter.

There’s a small strangeness to that specific city being one that has screwed itself out of a library. Little House on the Prairie is one of the best read childrens series and Vinton, Iowa is where Mary Ingalls went to the school for the blind.

Just stupid, short-sighted people. This is what propaganda does to people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The GOP is fascist. Of course they have to harass and threaten people who don’t think like they do, especially people who are smarter.

There’s a small strangeness to that specific city being one that has screwed itself out of a library. Little House on the Prairie is one of the best read childrens series and Vinton, Iowa is where Mary Ingalls went to the school for the blind.

Just stupid, short-sighted people. This is what propaganda does to people.

As a librarian, I am utterly broken-hearted by this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The GOP is fascist. Of course they have to harass and threaten people who don’t think like they do, especially people who are smarter.

That’s a feature, not a bug. They are coming for anyone in public education next. The goal is to drive them out of their communities.

[Anonymous]

When you know better, you do better.
And usually vote accordingly.
The Maga answer to that, is to keep people from knowing better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Surely I was the only 11 year old dry humping herself while reading Flowers in the Attic?!?

You were not the only one.

Nope, I'm sure plenty of others, and then there was Forever by Judy Blume which was a personal favorite to steal from my older sister. Ah, Ralph. IYKNK.

For younger ages, there was Then Again, Maybe I Won't , Deenie, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Are those still allowed?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surely I was the only 11 year old dry humping herself while reading Flowers in the Attic?!?

You were not the only one.

Nope, I'm sure plenty of others, and then there was Forever by Judy Blume which was a personal favorite to steal from my older sister. Ah, Ralph. IYKNK.

For younger ages, there was Then Again, Maybe I Won't , Deenie, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Are those still allowed?

I read Ordinary People the summer before 8th grade. Talk about your trigger warnings. Generally speaking, if the kids are reading, they're thinking, and they're going to be alright.

[Anonymous]

I'd like to give a heartfelt "thank you" to Judy Blume along with the writer of the book (Don't remember the name) passed around in my day of fifth grade sex ed, for teaching me in elementary school that I was not a weirdo freak girl because I masturbated.

Genuinely, it was a huge relief to find out I was normal, I can still remember the weight lifting off my chest at finding out I was not a freak. My mom didn't discuss with me and I was shamed the couple times I was caught.

I'm ok with my kids reading such books, not afraid it's going to turn them into freaks. They'll identify with the book or not. If a book helps them feel less alone, good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surely I was the only 11 year old dry humping herself while reading Flowers in the Attic?!?

You were not the only one.

Nope, I'm sure plenty of others, and then there was Forever by Judy Blume which was a personal favorite to steal from my older sister. Ah, Ralph. IYKNK.

For younger ages, there was Then Again, Maybe I Won't , Deenie, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Are those still allowed?

I read Ordinary People the summer before 8th grade. Talk about your trigger warnings. Generally speaking, if the kids are reading, they're thinking, and they're going to be alright.

They are, but I happened onto a Time Magazine article about FGM when I was about 8 or 9 (I loved reading magazines for adults; it always felt like I was learning secrets). That one scared me pretty badly and I didn’t have a relationship with my parents such that I could ask for more background and context.

Still - banning books and targeting librarians is wrong on all levels. This is literally the kind of stuff the right wing tutted about Muslim extremists doing in the early 2000s. Evidently they were taking inspiration rather than actually being upset.

Come to think of it, they did blow up the Georgia Guidestones. Extremists use the same stupid playbook all over.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surely I was the only 11 year old dry humping herself while reading Flowers in the Attic?!?

You were not the only one.

Nope, I'm sure plenty of others, and then there was Forever by Judy Blume which was a personal favorite to steal from my older sister. Ah, Ralph. IYKNK.

For younger ages, there was Then Again, Maybe I Won't , Deenie, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Are those still allowed?

I read Ordinary People the summer before 8th grade. Talk about your trigger warnings. Generally speaking, if the kids are reading, they're thinking, and they're going to be alright.

They are, but I happened onto a Time Magazine article about FGM when I was about 8 or 9 (I loved reading magazines for adults; it always felt like I was learning secrets). That one scared me pretty badly and I didn’t have a relationship with my parents such that I could ask for more background and context.

Still - banning books and targeting librarians is wrong on all levels. This is literally the kind of stuff the right wing tutted about Muslim extremists doing in the early 2000s. Evidently they were taking inspiration rather than actually being upset.

Come to think of it, they did blow up the Georgia Guidestones. Extremists use the same stupid playbook all over.

We sound like the same kind of kid. I would sneak and read my parents' copy of Helter Skelter around the age of 12 or 13. With kids' access to the internet today, it's amazing to me that parents would spend time trying to ban a handful of books in the library that they find objectionable. Actually, it's not amazing to me at all, now that I've typed that out. It's 100% about the agenda, not the kids.