Seriously with the book banning ?

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Are any of these books worse than the Gallery and Playboy magazines I used to steal from my older brothers room? This was back in the late 80s or early 90s before the Internet. I assume he got them for the photos which were uninteresting to me, I (a girl) preferred the stories.

No? Meh, not worried.

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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?

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.

PP you’re replying to. My kids’ internet use is on serious lockdown but if they want to read a book, they can read a book. I agree with you that banning books is pointless and shortsighted. I suppose their hope is that it will take books from “forbidden fruit” and thus attractive to something that’s objectionable, uncool and unobtainable.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Just in case anyone hasn’t heard this song in a while, here’s Amanda Palmer’s Judy Blume.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_k02Waw4WXk

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Just in case anyone hasn’t heard this song in a while, here’s Amanda Palmer’s Judy Blume.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_k02Waw4WXk

This is great, I'd never heard this before, thanks!

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Every accusation is projection.

“A Missouri man who sought to ban several LGBTQ books from schools for depicting sexual content is now facing a felony charge of second-degree child molestation.

Ryan Utterback, a 29-year-old parent from a suburb of Kansas City, also faces a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree domestic assault and, in a separate case, a misdemeanor of furnishing or attempting to furnish pornographic material to a minor.

Utterback had spoken at a school board meeting in November, as first reported by local news station KMBC-TV, an ABC affiliate, to advocate for the removal of books in North Kansas City Schools libraries that depicted sexual acts.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/lgbtq-book-ban-advocate-faces-felony-child-molestation-charge-missouri-rcna14763

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Anonymous wrote:Every accusation is projection.

“A Missouri man who sought to ban several LGBTQ books from schools for depicting sexual content is now facing a felony charge of second-degree child molestation.

Ryan Utterback, a 29-year-old parent from a suburb of Kansas City, also faces a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree domestic assault and, in a separate case, a misdemeanor of furnishing or attempting to furnish pornographic material to a minor.

Utterback had spoken at a school board meeting in November, as first reported by local news station KMBC-TV, an ABC affiliate, to advocate for the removal of books in North Kansas City Schools libraries that depicted sexual acts.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/lgbtq-book-ban-advocate-faces-felony-child-molestation-charge-missouri-rcna14763

Though not directly related to book banning, you are correct that every accusation is projection.

https://lawsuit.org/general-law/republicans-have-an-obsession-with-transgender-pornography/

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“A Lafayette Parish library branch manager who has spoken against censorship at board meetings may be in jeopardy of losing her job.

The Library Board of Control is scheduled to hold a special meeting Monday evening with an executive session to evaluate Library Director Danny Gillane, who was appointed director in June 2021, and to discuss and evaluate the employment of Cara Chance, the manager of the North Regional Library branch in Carencro.

Chance has been one of few library employees to speak out against efforts to ban books and restrict book displays in the public library system.”
https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/article_7d1f549a-0a21-11ed-b48a-0f6416960652.html

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You’re telling me that a right movement is inorganic? What in the tea party are you saying?

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Some good news

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“A Louisiana school librarian is suing two men for defamation after they accused her of advocating to keep "pornographic" materials in the parish library's kids' section. It's a rare example of an educator taking legal action against conservatives who use extreme rhetoric in their battle against LGBTQ-themed books.

Amanda Jones, a librarian at a middle school in Denham Springs, Louisiana, filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday, arguing that Facebook pages run by Michael Lunsford and Ryan Thames falsely labeled her a pedophile who wants to teach 11-year-olds about anal sex.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rare-move-school-librarian-fights-back-court-conservative-activists-rcna42800

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM favorite Bethany Mandel getting in on the book banning act:

So because she and her right wing friends don't want their kids to see a book with a transgender character those books can't be in the library at all?

Well, now that you bring it up, she’d probably be happier if she didn’t have to worry about her children being exposed to the LGBTQ community on TV or other forms of media also.

I agree that we don’t need transgender transformations being taught or presented to children. I support trans rights. I do not support your politicizing my child’s gender identity or normalizing actions that cannot be undone. I predict that in a few years we will see children suing parents for allowing / forcing them to get gender reassigned.

Completely agree. It’s getting absurd. My young kid doesn’t need to be reading about some asexual kid as summer reading.

The left sounds unhinged here. You are not going to win arguing that every book ever is appropriate for young kids with the vast majority of Americans, no matter how much you screech about burning books.

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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.

Harry Potter books. Are you kidding me? The left wants to burn them because the author dared suggest women are different from trans men who decide they are women.

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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.

Harry Potter books. Are you kidding me? The left wants to burn them because the author dared suggest women are different from trans men who decide they are women.

The only cases I’ve seen about attempts to ban Harry Potter books involve conservative Christians upset about magic and witches, the same sort who want to ban Halloween.