Can't they just draft a plan to keep parents from nosing into their kids' reading material? (The kids are reading! The kids are fucking reading! Who cares if it takes a few boobs and asses to make them do it?)
One thing that struck me was this automatic assumption that the library system is the one who's supposed to 'babysit' your kid. Er, NO. You babysit your kid and you'd better well suck it up. I really hate that because of that, the people who would want to read the book (and it's an excellent piece on the beginnings of manga and the pleasant and not-so pleasant events that coincided with it's growing popularity) wouldn't be able to find it in the library and really. If that's going to hurt, I'd hate to see what the first day of high school is going to be like.
It's the same thing that happens with the video game violence debate. =| I know that book likely wouldn't have been given a rating, but really, given the choice between my child not reading at all because I don't have time to read everything they want to read beforehand, just in case, and risking them discovering 'unsavoury' material, I'd prefer they discovered the unsavoury material.
Hell, my father gave me the Jean M. Auel books to read when I was about ten. Just taught me that I sure as hell didn't want to read them ever again. XD;
Maybe if the social stigma attached to manga (due partly to comic books) was decreased, people would be able to see that manga is like any other medium for communication.
Another brilliant act by a another brilliant politician and more parents blaming everything but themselves for their children learning things they don't want them to learn.
Why exactly haven't these people groups together and broken off from the rest of the world yet or is forcing their personal morals and ethics on aspects of everyone elses lives just too much for them to give up?
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Date: 2006-04-19 01:13 am (UTC)That's the only explanation I can think of. =\
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Date: 2006-04-19 07:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-19 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-19 07:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-19 07:45 am (UTC)Hell, my father gave me the Jean M. Auel books to read when I was about ten. Just taught me that I sure as hell didn't want to read them ever again. XD;
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Date: 2006-04-19 04:36 am (UTC)It doesn't surprise me in the least.
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Date: 2006-04-19 07:17 am (UTC)Maybe if the social stigma attached to manga (due partly to comic books) was decreased, people would be able to see that manga is like any other medium for communication.
Only it has pretty pictures. =)
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Date: 2006-04-19 06:20 am (UTC)You should hear what the librarians involved are saying on the listservs.
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Date: 2006-04-19 07:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-19 10:39 am (UTC)America is so fucked up.
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Date: 2006-04-19 02:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-19 10:08 pm (UTC)Seriously. As if there's something wrong with the human body. Why should we be ashamed of being ourselves?