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Book Bans Overwhelmingly Target Children’s Books by People of Color, Study Finds (truthout.org)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh my god! They're going to be so embarrassed. I mean that's a crazy accident. /s

[–] mhague 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I read some / skipped through Gender Queer and didn't find anything objectionable.

However, it's a book about someone's experiences being gender queer. For example, there's a part where the person finds Tumblr / etc communities where people list pronouns, and the author talks about how it made them think differently.

There's also a part where the person buys panties and gives the colorful ones to their friend Phoebe, then keeps the others for themselves.

A) Communities of like-minded people exist

B) Here are some ways I dealt with dysphoria (aka some ways you can deal with it.)

Two things much worse than nude art or talk about genitalia.

You don't need to be a brainwashing savant to understand these books are dangerous to conservative thinking

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Bold of you to assume any of them read past the title

[–] crimsoncobalt 10 points 2 weeks ago

I bought a copy of Gender Queer recently because I found out it was getting banned. It's a great book, highly recommended to everyone off all ages.

[+] reddig33 -13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

These aren’t children’s books in the photo. What a strange choice.

[–] mhague 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Matt Gaetz would agree with you. 12 to 18 is not a child. Therefore books targeting adults ages 12 to 18 is not a children's book. Checkmate liberals.

[–] reddig33 -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Kurt Vonnegut is a children’s book? Gender Queer certainly isn’t. It discusses visiting porn sites like Kink.com.

[–] mhague 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think children should read about that. We're talking 12 to 18 year olds, it wouldn't have been in my preschool or elementary school, only middle school and up. I was younger than that when I was exposed to porn. We read about people being lynched and being killed in war and all kinds of things... where is this puritan energy coming from? It's only sex, not super fucked up topics like rotten.com.

[–] reddig33 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Kink.com is a strong fetish site that itself tells people under 18 not to visit.

I think gender queer is an important book for people questioning their sexuality and gender, but some of the material is too adult for someone 12 years old. Talking about strap ons isn’t going to be productive with a 12 year old. There are probably better titles for dealing with gender at that age.

I also still don’t see how Vonnegut is a “children’s” book. Most libraries subdivide under 18 material into preschool/children’s/tween/young adult. Articles like this need to be more careful about terminology if they are including 17 and 18 year olds.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

It’s literally titled Slaughterhouse-Five, Or the Children’s Crusade. /s

In seriousness, I started reading Vonnegut at 11-12 years old. It’s not Dr Seuss but preteens can definitely read it.

[–] mhague 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I haven't read Vonnegut but I had a "college reading level" by 7 and when I went to GATE there were plenty of kids like me. Obviously kids will get older and things will have a richer context but they can definitely read and parse this stuff.