I saw a tiktok of a MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER talking about how she had a whiteboard up for her students to write down their favorite books they had read that year and I am ????? SO concerned???
Middle school children.
They were writing down Icebreaker. Haunting Adeline. The Butcher and the Blackbird.
MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILDREN.
And the comments?? The comments were full of adults going “oh I read worse when I was a kid, be happy they’re reading!”
NO!
NO!!!!
These children SHOULD NOT BE READING THIS CRAP. (For my non-American people, middle school is 11 to 13 years old.)
Just because you might have snuck online or between the shelves at the library and read smut doesn’t mean we should sit back and applaud as our children literally read HAUNTING ADELINE.
Some adults on booktok scare me. And by scare me, I mean I’m afraid to ask what they’re hiding on their computers because there’s no way in hell they’re sitting there with an innocent browser history—especially if they’re encouraging children to read degenerative smut.
And these parents need to be checked, too, to see if they’re encouraging this stuff. Get back on the parenting program! Check on your kids!
And before anyone says it: It’s not “Puritan” to say that children shouldn’t be reading about romantized abuse/romantized SA. Let them read Percy Jackson or the Warrior Cats or Redwall! Not stuff like Icebreaker!
