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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Genderqueer has a Greek style drawing of a naked adult man touching the penis of a child [/quote]

No, Gender Queer has no such drawing and, contrary to what another pp said, Gender Queer has no similarity to any Platonic Dialogue. I wish it had similarities to Plato because I found Gender Queer to be unimpressive. I ordered two copies because I encourage my teenage DS to read anything that’s banned. But after reading Gender Queer, I told DS he could read it if he wanted but there are much better books with which to occupy his time. [/quote]

Yes, it does.  Stop gaslighting.

Sexual imagery

A controversial illustration in Gender Queer is based on this piece of red-figure pottery attributed to the Brygos Painter.
Gender Queer includes a handful of sexually explicit illustrations which have been used to argue that the book is inappropriate for schoolchildren.

[b]In one commonly cited panel, a 14-year-old Kobabe fantasizes about a scene in which an older man touches the penis of a youth. [/b]The illustration is based on a piece of painted ancient Greek pottery depicting a "courting scene".[21][2] Detractors have described this as a depiction of pedophilia.[22][23][/quote]

No. As I said, I don’t like Gender Queer because I think it’s poorly written and self indulgent. [b]But it has no such image.[/b] But, then, full disclosure, for the life of me I can’t find the picture of a female breast that caused people to say that “Maus” was obscene. I found frontal male nudity in Maus volume II but no female breast in either volume. [/quote]

Look, I really don't know what to tell you.  You are either lying or ignorant of the images that are indeed in Gender Queer.  Anyone who has read it knows exactly what the pictures are.  Just stop.

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The PP has clearly read the book as you have relied on right wing propaganda to tell you what and how to think. “ MassResistance is a hate group that promotes anti-LGBT and socially conservative positions. The group is designated an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center,[4] in part for claims linking LGBT people with pedophilia and zoophilia, and claims that suicide prevention programs aimed at gay youth were created by homosexual activists to normalize and "lure" children into homosexuality.[3][5][6]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MassResistance

So I’ll repeat: the PP has clearly read the book and instead of reading it yourself to see which is true, you’re relying on (and linking to!) a hate group. You would cite the KKK for guidance on police brutality.

What the GOP is doing is fascism. They want only approved forms of culture and they’re willing to lie to their sheep followers in order to accomplish those aims, also because their followers are too dim to grasp that this record has been played before and their favorite books, movies, music, etc won’t always be allowed if the GOP gets their way. And oh do they want their way![/quote]

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