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i mean there is one book i think should be banned and it's "to train up a child" by michael and debi pearl. it's a guidebook for how to abuse your kids.
Okay, see, look. Here's the thing. Which was the entire point of both the original post, and my addition to it.
If we allow books to be banned for any reason, that reason will be applied to books that people do not want to be read for other reasons.
"To Train Up a Child" should be banned because it's a guidebook for how to abuse your kids? Fine. Great. Let's ban it.
A LOT of parenting guides advocate corporal punishment. We should ban those too. After all, spanking is child abuse.
Kids need nutrition, right? It's abuse if you're not feeding kids properly. These parenting guides over here say you should let your kids dictate their diets because they know what they want - come on, kids don't know what they want! They'll eat nothing but sugar! That's abuse. Let's ban any books that advocate letting your children eat whatever they want.
Wait, though. My pediatrician gave my mom a copy of a diet book when I was a toddler and said she should put me on it to stop me getting fat, but it was a severely calorie-restrictive diet and I wouldn't have gotten adequate nutrition if we'd followed it. So unless the book expressly says "don't feed this book to growing children", it's implicitly advocating child abuse. We need to ban them.
"The Care and Keeping of You" is a book marketed at preteen girls, about their changing bodies and all that sort of thing. But it was written by a man. Some of those drawings are awfully close to nudity. We can't have girls thinking it's okay to let grown men draw them naked - what? They're cartoons? Doesn't matter, girls will still think it's okay, and if you let them see that, it's abuse. Ban it.
This book advocates care for trans children by letting them dress in ways that don't match their genitals, letting them present how they want, letting them maybe go on puberty blockers if they're old enough and even hormones when they're adults. You're forcing changes on children who can't agree to them! That's abuse! Ban the books! Ban them!
I realize this all seems hyperbolic and excessive, but that is the point. If you give someone a foot in the door by saying "this reason is okay to ban books", they can justify whatever they want under that until the door's been kicked off its hinges and, often, ends up covering the very books you initially tried to pass through the door.
There are books that should be read critically. There are books that should horrify people. There are authors who have made it clear that buying their books is agreeing with their positions not (necessarily) stated in the books and therefore maybe giving them money is a bad idea. But actually banning them? No. Nothing good comes of that.
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Let me just open up that bad boy to my birthday and see my cool space vis---
Sure. Sure yeah. Okay. That's Fine. That's really fine and good. Really normal.
Hubble explores the universe 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Take a look at what cosmic wonders Hubble observed on your special day!
Oh yeah if you want to see yours or just look at cool space pictures.
YOOOOO I got the Orion Nebula! Thats like my favorite nebula!!
Young men today being SHOCKED and APPALLED that the girls they're dating are reading dark romance like the closet in my grandma's spare room wasn't totally chockers with Mills and Boon books when I was a kid. "Our generation is RUINED because the young women are reading NASTY PORN" if you saw the shit 50 year old women were reading in the nineties you'd hurl.
Props to all the people in the notes reminiscing about which specific old woman relative's book collection was their smutty fic awakening
My grandmother had Clan of the Cave Bear on her shelves. My mother read Dick Francis, which all have sex scenes in as well as ludicrous horse-related thriller stuff. I have AO3 as well as all the stuff that managed to get printed. Also there is often a fierce double standard. Women were meant to be OK with their husbands ogling the page 3 girl in The Sun, but OMG no you can't read bonkbusters by Jilly Cooper.
Shockingly, many people of many genders have been into Weird Sex Shit for a very very long time
I am only just now realising that some people might consider Clan of the Cave Bear smut. Come to think of it, it does have a lot of sex scenes, doesn't it. Not so much the first one, but after they introduce Jondolar.
Even the first one had a pretty graphic rape scene that read as more kinky than rapey.
I distinctly recall, when I was about twelve years old, being handed a 1'x1'x18" box at a church yard sale and told to put whatever books I wanted off the sale table into it, and I could take them home for free. (I suspect this was largely to minimize the number of things they had to pack up when the yard sale was over.)
My options, without exception, were Bible concordances and Harlequin romances.
Reader, I did not walk home with a box full of Bible concordances.
âAuthors should not be ALLOWED to write aboutââ you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative
âThis book should be taken off of shelves for featuringââ you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative
âSchools shouldnât teach this book in class becauseââ you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative
âNobody actually likes or wants to read classics because theyâreââ you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot
âI only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and featuresââ you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.
"you are functionally a conservative" is such a good and clarifying insult
Literally right after I saw this post, I saw another post in a discord chat for BOOK EDITORS in which an outspokenly liberal editor talked about how Nabokov should have never been published because he wrote about p*dophiles and described women's bodies in ways that made her uncomfortable. She described his writing as "objectively terrible" and said she wanted to burn his books. And other editors were bringing up classics they didn't like and talking about how they wanted to throw them in the trash. This wasn't like a light "unpopular opinion!" conversation. This was actual book editors talking about how books should be destroyed and censored.
There is something so scary and toxic in global culture right now. The revival of fascism is influencing everyone's mindset and approach to art, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum.
I see far more books being censored today than when I was a kid. Librarians handed me The Catcher in the Rye, The Sexual Politics of Meat, and Animal Farm when I was literally 8-11. My mom would never have taken a book away from me. I read everything from the Tao Te Ching to the Qur'an to atheist texts under my desk at school. Teachers thought nothing of it or encouraged it. Books seemed universally acknowledged as sacrosanct to me.
Now I can't find any adults who don't hesitate or want to make exceptions when it comes to censorship. Even the most liberal social activist librarians I know go, "well except for book X..."
Functionally conservative. It's so important to have the language to express that.
Thank you for this addition!
I did a report on book banning once.
Actually, I did reports on book banning three separate times with three separate teachers, with three separate sets of parameters so I was able to write about the same topic in different ways, but this is specifically about the report I did in university. The actual specs for the report included that we were supposed to complete some kind of study or poll (this was not a science class). I put the questions out on a couple of forums I belonged to at the time and asked a few IRL friends as well. A lot of the questions were standard for this sort of thing, I think - were you ever assigned to read a banned book, did you ever read banned books on your own, did you read/were you assigned them BECAUSE they were banned or did you find out about them being banned later, what's your opinion on banning books, etc.
But there was one question I asked that ended up reshaping the entire thrust of my presentation: "Are there any books that you think SHOULD be banned, and if so, why?"
Here's the thing. Most of the forums I was posting on were fan spaces for a book series that, at the time, was one of the most banned/challenged books out there. It's a fandom that I have since entirely distanced myself from, that I one hundred percent do not recommend to anyone, that I will actively attempt to dissuade people from reading or talking about, and that I would like to not be popular anymore. I'm sure most of you reading this can guess which one I'm talking about (I won't name it or go into specifics because I don't want to trip any filters unnecessarily). But it was KNOWN that these books were banned in a lot of places. A lot of people wore the "I read banned books" badge with pride. I fully expected that the answer to that question would be a resounding "no" from the forums, and that I'd maybe get a few affirmative answers from one of the other spaces.
I was shocked. Not only did a lot of people come back with either "not exactly but I think we should keep [author] or [book] out of the hands of children" or "yes, [book]/anything by [author] should be banned because XYZPDQ", but not a single person who responded gave me the same answer. The only one I remember - keep in mind it's been almost twenty years - was that one person specifically said The Bone Collector, and for the "why do you think it should be banned" question, they only said, "No. I'm not explaining it. It's too horrible to even think about. Just believe me when I say nobody should ever be allowed to read this book."
I highlighted that last comment in my presentation, along with several other of my "favorite" official reasons for banning books - the Alabama school board that banned The Diary of Anne Frank in 1984 because it was "a real downer", the district that removed A Raisin in the Sun because it was "pornographic", the library that took Charlie and the Chocolate Factory out of circulation because it "might be hurtful to children without parents", and things of that nature - and pointed out that all of these were the same thing. This was somebody saying "I don't like this, therefore nobody should read it, and I shouldn't have to explain why." I also pointed out that if you can't give a good reason, the whole thing falls apart, and then I quoted "Smut" by Tom Lehrer:
All books can be indecent books, Though recent books are bolder, For filth, I'm glad to say, Is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, Everything is lewd. I can tell you things about Peter Pan And the Wizard of Oz - THERE'S a dirty old man...
Go back to that paragraph I mentioned earlier, about those books that I no longer recommend to anyone. Notice how I phrased that. I don't recommend them. I will tell you all the reasons why I don't think you should buy them. I will tell you all the problems with the author, with the franchise, with the writing. I wish they were out of print, I wish they were deeply unpopular, I wish nobody would ever read them again.
But I still won't advocate for banning them.
It's so easy to twist a justification. Look at what I quoted up there! A Raisin in the Sun was banned for being "pornographic". One of the websites I used as a source responded to that accusation with "Did they read the same play I did?" At the time, I thought the comment was funny. Now, twenty years later, I realize: It was a buzzword. It was a convenient label. At the time of the challenge, just saying "it's pornographic" was enough. Obviously you're not some kind of sicko who wants to hear about all the pornographic details, are you? Freak! That's pornography! And they're teaching it in schools! We should get rid of it!
A Raisin in the Sun, for anyone who didn't study it at any point or read it (or watch the movie, which was very good), is a play/movie about a black family in Chicago in the 1960s. The family matriarch has been in domestic service for years, but she's just received a very large insurance payment from her husband's death and is retiring. Wanting to give her family, especially her young grandson, a better life, she goes out and buys a house...in an otherwise exclusively white neighborhood. The head of the homeowner's association (essentially) comes to visit them and offers to pay them a substantial amount of money to not move into the neighborhood, because segregation isn't officially a thing and they can't legally stop them from moving in, but they don't want them there. There's a lot more that goes on in the play, and I highly recommend you go and read it, but the point is that there is nothing sexual or titillating in the entire thing. The closest we get is a scene where the daughter (Beneatha, a college student) is gifted a traditional African dress from her boyfriend, who's Nigerian, and he shows her how to put it on over the clothes she's already wearing, and maybe the scene where the daughter-in-law (Ruth, a laundress) accidentally reveals that, having found out she's pregnant, she's planning to have an abortion rather than bring another child into the world/have another mouth to feed.
It's not pornographic. But someone didn't want it taught in schools, so they called it that to get it banned.
It's so easy to twist labels. If you, a liberal, agree that books with X trait are okay to ban, the people who don't want books to exist will find a way to say they have X trait, and then what are you going to do, admit that you like that sort of thing? Sicko! Freak! Pervert!
You don't have to like the book, or the author, or the topic. But if you're advocating for banning them entirely, you're functionally a conservative.
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This actually shows the absurdity of the whole "banned books" narrative. You say you'd never ban these books, you wouldn't recommend them.
But the school boards in question also didn't ban those books. What they did was far closer to "not recommending." Whenever someone talks about an American school or school district "banning" a book, what it means is "not stocking that book in the school library." They don't take it out of stores or the central library, they just don't have it in the echool's library. They don't stop anyone from getting it, they just don't give it to you. You can contrive a situation where they are the only means of a child getting a certain book, and that doesn't matter, because by this standard every single book in the world that isn't on the shelves in that school library was banned by that school library and that's obviously a silly standard. Librarians curate the book selection, they have to, the shelf space isn't infinite. They choose the books they think the library should contain as their recommendations. It doesn't become book banning when anyone other than a librarian does the same thing.
Hi! You are incorrect. Or at least grossly oversimplifying my points.
Yes, some instances of "books being banned" were just the librarians removing them from circulation, or the districts taking them off the required reading lists. Most cases, at least most of the ones I cited for my papers, were bans in the sense that the school districts (or libraries) not only removed official copies, they refused to allow the students to have or discuss them, period. My brother had a book, his book, one that he personally owned, taken away from him by a teacher and locked up in the school office because it was banned at the school he attended. They wouldn't even give it back to him, they insisted on giving it back to my mother. He borrowed one of my pencils once and came home in tears because he had to admit to me that his teacher had noticed it was a merchandise tie-in to a book that was banned and not only took it from him, but actively destroyed it in front of him. Because the book was a "bad book" and therefore banned.
Also, that's not the point of anything I said, or anything else in this post. If a kid comes up to me and asks me if I think a book is good or if they should read it, I'm going to say that I don't think it's good or that I wouldn't read it, and if they ask me why I will give my points. But if they say "well, I want to read it anyway", even if it was my kid, I wouldn't stop them. My personal opinions are just that, and I have no right to force them on anyone else.
It's the difference between "there are children in the school with peanut allergies so the cafeteria will not prepare or serve meals that have peanuts in them" and "there are children in the school with peanut allergies so you cannot even let your children have peanut butter for breakfast on school days". One of those is a restriction and the other is a ban. And schools absolutely do ban peanuts - and books - to that extreme.

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Has either of your parents ever accidentally called you/your siblings the wrong name? (someone else's name, like other sibling, pet, etc)
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Who was it who pointed out the other day that the megalodons have been reclassified into genus Otodus? Of course you're quite right. Thanks for that!
So here's the re-corrected diagram. :)
[Image description: A diagram of shark sizes as compared to an average human figure, small and indicated at approximately two meters high in the bottom left corner, with a legend to the right explaining the colors. From bottom to top:
Carcharodon carcharias (average) - green, approximately 6 meters long
Rhincodon typus (average) - purple, approximately 11.5 meters long
Otodus megaalodon (conservative) - red, approximately 18.5 meters long)
Otodus megalodon (maximum) - grey, approximately 24 meters long
Ed'rashtekaresket (approximate) - blue, approximately 30 meters long
/end ID]
(Also, for the non-shark nerds among you: Carcharodon carcharias is the Great White Shark and Rhincodon typus is the Whale Shark.)
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Chapter 8: Finding Forever
âRabbit, rabbit, rabbit!â Melanieâs voice whispered excitedly in Jonâs ear.
Jon rolled over and grinned up at the blur in the vague shape of a person above him. âRabbit, rabbit, rabbit,â he parroted back at her. Neither of them had any idea where the phrase came from, but ever since Miss Goldman had told them about it theyâd competed to be the first one to say it.
He reached for his glasses and slid them on, and the blur resolved into Melanie. âDo you smell breakfast?â
Melanieâs nose twitched, and she frowned. âYes. Why is someone making breakfast already? Daddy doesnât usually start working before nine.â
Jon glanced at the alarm clock on the night stand between their beds as he sat up. âAnd he usually has cereal, even when he has to go to court. Letâs go find out.â
They had tidied up their room the night before, so at least their slippers were right where they were meant to be. Stepping into them, they ventured into the main part of the house. Their parentsâ bedroom door was shut, as was the door to the room that had been designated as an office, and nobody was in the living room. When they made their way around to the kitchen, though, they found Mummy humming and setting the table while Daddy presided over the stove.
âIs it somebodyâs birthday?â Melanie asked suspiciously.
âIn a sense, maybe.â Mummy set the silverware down and came over to give them both a kiss on the head. âWeâre taking a special trip today. As a family. Letâs have breakfast and then you two need a bath before we go.â
Jonâs eyebrows shot up. âItâs that kind of special trip?â
âYouâll see,â Mummy promised. âItâs not bad. I promise.â
Mummy hadnât ever lied to himânot once in his entire lifeâso Jon was willing to trust her. He glanced at the bowls tucked against the wall and reached for the cupboard where they kept the cat food.

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