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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok so a parent brings up a legitimate complaint about pedophilia in a high school library and we are somehow talking about trump and youngkin?

Step away from politics for two seconds. Kiddy porn shouldn’t be supported by either party![/quote]

The problem is that it’s utterly illegitimate.  There is no pornography involved.  And idiot dupes like you just keep repeating the lies without even bothering to read either book that you’re so lathered up about.  It’s reprehensible.  You are reprehensible.  You are getting your dopamine hits from repeating outrage manufactured by political operatives.

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You are actually taking time out of your day to post in favor of banning a. Book you have never read.  What happened to you as a child that made you so easily led?[/quote]

Honest question?  Were those images I saw on Twitter of animated oral sex not accurate?  Cause there’s no way that’s not pornography [/quote]

Let’s see what happens if the students at all the schools with copies of this book try to include these images in their student yearbooks.  The odds are 99.5% they’d be censored by the faculty advisors or principals.

But because they were called out at a meeting that embarrassed the 12-0 Democrat School Board, the usual suspects are going to claim they are perfectly acceptable.  [/quote]

“I’d like two things that are not equivalent, Alex”

One book out of 50,000 in a school library collection is not equal to a school sponsored publication that is distributed to the entire student body.  The same way me telling my best friend privately about my period pain is not the same as delivering a high school commencement so each on the same topic.

Why is this so hard?

(Because you are responding to trolls.  No one is actually This stupid.  Right?)[/quote]

Your analogy isn’t on point, so the prior comment stands. A book in a public school library has the imprimatur of public officials as suitable reading material, unlike your private conversation with your friend.

The School Board needs to insist on some accountability here. [/quote]

Utterly false equivalence.  No one thinks that a library endorses every idea in every book.  I think some books are terrible (*cough* Ulysses *cough*) but I don’t argue against them being in a high school library.  Your stance is akin to the eejits who oppose Harry Potter in school because it promotes witchcraft.  Guess what?  Harry Potter-was not suitable for my kindergartener, nor was Are You There, God? it’s Me, Margaret.  But they were perfectly fine for the 6th graders who had access to them in the same library.  And if my kindergartner happened upon them before I could see they were in his backpack?  No harm, no foul.  A chance for conversation, maybe.

My 3rd grader doesn’t have access to either of these books in his school library.  But what if he had an older sibling who brought one home and he saw the page in question?  Sigh.  It’s not that hard.  I’d explain that the two people are grownups.  I’d explain that, as best I understand it, the main character feels confused in their body and sometimes feels like a woman or sometimes a man or sometimes both or neither, and that they don’t have a penis so they tried one on, kind of like a fake penis on the front of a pear of underwear.  And it was a pretty silly idea for the other one to put the toy penis in their mouth!  But look…it didn’t feel right so the main character asked the other person to do something else and they smiled and felt good, and that’s what people do when they respect each other’s bodies.  If one person doesn’t like what you’re doing, you stop.

When I first read this outrage on Thursday night, I thought WTF?! The quote sounded outrageous.  How could this happen?  And then I read Lawn Boy and there was no pedophilia in it.  Just a young adult reflecting on how erased he felt by a guy with whom he has sexually experimented in 4th grade.  Guess what?  Same thing happened to me with a girl I sort of fooled around with in 6th grade not even knowing what we were doing, who then pretended she didn’t know me in high school.  So I’m not the only one.  It wasn’t even remotely pornographic  and had nothing whatsoever to do with pedophilia.

Then I actually read parts of Gender Queer and it, too, is about as far from pornography as you can get.  There is nothing “graphic” on the page where the MC tries on a strap on.  No middle school or high school kid is going to be shocked by news that something protrudes from Boy underwear or at the concept of blow jobs.  But this isn’t even a blow job!  It’s someone trying on a fake penis and realizing it’s awkward and not fun and then negotiating respectful consent and a change.  But not arousing.  Not meant to arouse.  Awkward and uncommon, sure.  But hardly sexy and certainly not porn.  I can’t imagine my son ever taking it out but if he did, it wouldn’t HARM him.

So, the claim of “pedophilia” is a lie.  Graphic sex scene claim is a lie.  A cartoonish drawing of awkward play with a strap-on is unusual but hardly merits a full scale book burning.[/quote]

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