Comments | melissagay: Stupidity

melissagay

Stupidity

Feb 18, 2007 07:17

A Newberry Award winning book is being banned from elementary school libraries because it contains the word "scrotum."

This is the stupidest thing I've heard all week, and I've heard lots. It's a body part, people! If people are unable to tell kids the proper names for their body parts (or in this case, it was a body part of a dog that sustained a ( Read more... )

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melissagay February 18 2007, 13:54:01 UTC

Heh-- indeed! Can't beat indignant NY Times coverage!

rangerlyn February 18 2007, 13:43:29 UTC

Hmmm...sounds just like the late 70's, when they tried to ban "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret".

And the stupid mother in Gwinnett Co. trying to get the Harry Potter books banned.

These people apparently never learned how to use the brains they were given.

melissagay February 18 2007, 13:52:49 UTC

Exactly. And thus they should have them eaten by zombies.

mekkasimian February 19 2007, 03:58:45 UTC

OR ZOMBIE CLOWNS!

=M=

moon1 February 18 2007, 14:22:55 UTC

In the 80's my high school ( Oak Mt. Academy ) was a college prep school with a twist. We were very unconventional and reading material was available to anybody who was mature enough to handle it. Teachers would assign books to read based on the individual's ability and need to know. Seeing the direction I was headed( I got found in the closet with girls more than once ) I most often got books about "a girls first time", drugs, etc... " catcher in the rye" oh ya and " once and future king". Needless to say it was a very open environment ( ... )

melissagay February 18 2007, 15:27:04 UTC

Lame. I want my child to be Educated about the things he's likely to get involved in before he decides to learn by trial and error! Especially when an "error" might result in drug addiction, pregnancy, or Aids! When will these people realize they are not doing their kids any favors by censoring their reading? (Oh, wait-- probably never!)

shiffer February 19 2007, 09:30:15 UTC

On the upside, your son is unlikely to become pregnant any time soon.

melissagay February 19 2007, 18:54:36 UTC

Not until he's at least five.

logrusboy February 18 2007, 16:09:09 UTC

But...but...it's an established fact that the only effective way to keep kids from having sex is not to let them know what to call the naughty bits! If you're gonna go getting your filthy knowledge all over the place, at least have the decency to be ashamed of yourself!!

Scrotum.

melissagay February 19 2007, 18:59:22 UTC

Right! Let 'em grow up callin' em hoohas and dingleberries like we did, and look how we turned out!

Scrotum.

logrusboy February 19 2007, 19:23:19 UTC

*shudder*

Scrotum.

sunshinedew February 20 2007, 03:39:14 UTC

I love dingleberries...one of my favorites.

saraphina_marie February 18 2007, 18:35:54 UTC

Yikes! How lame.

It seems that the more "advanced" and "intelligent" humans as a species gets...there is always some backlash to drag us back into the primordial ooze.

KEEPING YOUR KIDS AS IGNORANT AS YOU ARE DOES NOT NEGATE EVOLUTION SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Possibly unrelated...but those who fight hardest to ban all those books usually do so because they have only ever read one book in their entire existences.

melissagay February 19 2007, 18:57:48 UTC

And a confusing book with a sloppy narrative, at that!

saraphina_marie February 19 2007, 19:01:09 UTC

Not to mention the continuity errors, inconsistencies, and straight-up hypocrisies!
A good book, but one of many, many good books out there in the world.

AND it mentions many many worse things than "scrotum"!