Bittersweet Candy Bowl

The local library in my area has recently hit some controversy over book content. Some woman found all the volumes of The Sandman in the arts and design section of the library where the rest of the non-manga comic books are found. She then found all these other books that could be considered “pornographic” in nature. Most of these books were comic books. Several others were actually literary classics and modern hits.

I take it that she didn’t even read most of the books that she put up on her list as “inappropriate”, because other books on the list included “Anansi Boys”, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, “All that Glitters is Not Gucci”, “Pretty in Pink”, “Dorothy of Oz”, “Persepolis”, and “Wicked”.

Anyways, she approached the city council twice. Those two times, she was ignored. The third time, the city council took action. Now, the library is under a lot of stress to “fix” this. Now, the library is going through all of their material, clearing out and reevaluating several of their books so they can make a “mature” section, thus making it so the library has to make more room for more shelves that won’t even be completely full. Also, the library is experiencing an extreme budget cut. Keep in mind that this is not a huge library and that this library doesn’t get enough money as it is.

As an unintended consequence of this, the art classes at the local high school are going to be under extreme scrutiny since nudity has been featured in a piece previously before. Also, the same woman is starting to ask that the anime club that meets at the library be disbanded.


Discuss how stupid, closed-mindedness ruins everything.

Moral Guardians for the win. Hippies to the left of me, Christians to the right. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Now let’s cut off someone’s ear.

one thing i can think of, right off the top of my head. Harry Potter books have been accused of encouraging Satanism.

Bow down to our Naked Master.

@Jerk no. >.>

Is it the Nude or the Master part? ‘Cause he’s not really nude. I think he wears a hat sometimes.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” inappropriate?
How?
No really, how?

I hate the “douche bag brigade” at my school, dubbed by me, my two friends and my theater arts teacher, these are the people who complain about everything. They are hicks, jocks, and the preps that can’t stand a minute of company with anybody but their friends. One instance, in art class, we were given an assignment to draw a building (I forgot the details of it, but i got an A) and we were allowed to talk with people at our group, so we do. Then about halfway through the class period one girl (a prep mind you) sitting in a table parallel to ours starts bawling, and crying. No reason. And she said to the counseler that our table called her a bitch. We did not. “*sniff* th-they said, they said m-my *sniff* n-name, th-then *sniff* they s-said, th-the b-B word *sniff*” I shit you not, thats what she said, we did not say that, however, by order of the principal, we are not allowed to talk in art. EVER. WTF. The hicks are the worst, they act like they know what “real work” is, yet all they do is sit on their ass and complain about how they do real work, and how us “people who think they’re smarter then us, which the ain’t” spend all our time “reading” and “studying” and not working. dude. this is school. what the fuck do expect me to do? Run around doing push ups during algebra? anyway, because of their “demonstration” of their strength, we can’t get up freely during lunch.

I cannot believe i just typed all that…..>.>

What is really bad, is that there is not just one extreme. She (refering to the opening post) is going extreme censorship. There is a battle in Montana about Sex-Ed to start teaching in kindergarten. And teaching sex positions at the age of 10. Seems like another extreme there.

The way I learned seems good. I learned about 1 sex organ at 9, the other at 10. And then the school said “Ask your parents for anything else”. I did and it was quick, sort of funny too.
(Me and my father)
“We went through sex-ed today and I have a question.”
“Ok”
“So, how does the sperm reach the egg?”
“Stick the peg, in the slot.”
“Oooh, ok.”
That was it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkXPyY9Wo_A

They can’t take the way you wear your hat.

Only I can do that.

Do what they did at my high school: hook up a pick-up truck with capable towing power to a tree in this front lawn and floor it.

TEJAS. THANK YOU.

@Taeshi One of her arguments was that manga makes people violent and turns them into delinquents. Last thing I want to do is prove her right…

In her defense, she is probably mentally deficient and you shouldn’t hate her for something like that since it isn’t her fault she was born a retard.

I fucking hate people like that. There’s enough problems in the world. What your teenager is reading shouldn’t be one of them.

…I might be more inclined to, at first, blame this on a lack of information on the librarian’s part rather than a shortage of basic intelligence.

If the situation was explained and she still went ahead with it without a worthwhile explanation…I’d probably still attribute that to stubbornness instead of idiocy.

The only reason that I wouldn’t go with the stupidity explanation, at least for a while, is that I kind of suspect that everyone on the planet—myself VERY MUCH included—is actually quite stupid in at least one way, even if it isn’t clear to themselves or to a number of people around them. But then there will always be someone who WILL see it.

*shrug*

If you’re retarded enough to be a moral guardian, you can be held accountable for your actions as one.

Me, I am a librarian. In Texas, of all places, where there is no shortage of moralfags. I once made a man, a moralfag, twice my age look like an idiot in the middle of class by pointing out that it wasn’t his job to be the moral guardian of the information process.

*heavy sigh*, at moral guardians

Burn her house down.

Right to the ground.

Do you want to know why we keep starting fires?

Absolutely.

Eeesh, California’s had enough fires in the last few years…

Cause it’s my desire.

This little segment has brought me joy. Thank you, LaCommunist. n_n

*Bows* I spread joy even if I don’t feel it. But yes it made me feel better too.

Well, Fire does cleanse all…

So why can’t it be a good thing.

Also, the best thing to fight Moralfags with is FACTS, their mortal enemy and greatest weakness.

At least in Australia.

I SERIOUSLY don’t get how these people wield so much power in America and whatnot, it befuddles me greatly.

Moral = Stupid invention (sadly neccesary for some unadapted monkeys)

Write a letter to a local newspaper comparing this censorship to the nazis or some other regime that people are very afraid of, and tell everyone you think is a reasonable person to do so, it will have no consequences whatsoever.

My sister says that my tiny, inoffensive, muslim girlfriend Jessie who never hurt anybody is going to Hell for not accepting Jesus Christ as her personal savior. Jessie is very sick and I do not know if she will survive the year. Now, I don’t hit women, but God damn would I like to break her teeth over that comment.

Great, Jerk… You reminded me of the terrible thing I saw on the Fourth of July…

These three blonde bimbos were harassing this girl in a hijab who came to watch the fireworks with her boyfriend’s family.

Oh Jesus the nerve of some people. It’s girls like those that make me wish I had a penis. No wait, I’m glad I’m a girls so I can sock their lights out with going to jail for to long.

And as for your sister Jerk, well she doesn’t know what happens after life, maybe we all have our own heaven to find and damning people to Hell is not the way to get there.

Stupid people believe a lot of stupid things from even more stupid people. Why do you think haters are hatin so much these past couple years all around this particular topic tag, spending so much time just making crap up?

And really, “To Kill a Mockingbird?” Really? Isn’t that, like, MANDATORY READING in high schools nowadays? You know, the books they make EVERYBODY read?

So is “Catcher in the Rye,” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” great books (in my opinion anyway) both of them, but they drive moral guardians insane

Books are inappropreate?!
oh dear god, If only there wasn’t such a horrible book already out in the open in the christian society known as the bible, full of stories of how people are bad against each other!

The Adventures of Huckleberry, at least, triggers the left side of the moral guardian over values dissonance, namely that word to which Jim is referred (albeit without malice).

I hold censorship in all its forms in contempt.

*agrees with all of you*

The worst ones are the Christian fundamentalist insane people:
“OH YOU SAID THE F-WORD! YOU WILL BURN IN HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!”

(Yes. Really. God really cares that much about one word. All of the first three gospels in the New Testament don’t matter, do they?)

But moving on, then they get on your case for stuff like wearing T-shirts and reading books in public and shit like that. Honestly?

woah stupid people do stupid shit??? then use religion to justify their stupidity??? censorship is bad?? lets talk about how stupid this is for a while and act shocked

……………
*slaps snooths around with a wet trout*

Complaining thread, dude. No need for sarcasm.


Also, the wet trout thing was for the lulz. I meant no offense, if you are offended.

its “large” trout

and why would i be offended

I dunno, some people get offended to strange things. Like the moral-fags we were complaining about earlier:
“OMG YOU SAID ‘LIKE’!!! YOU ARE GOING TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

WTF?!

Also, thanks for the correction.

I mean no offense please don’t be offended please

if there is a hell all the religious freaks will burn.

and they say atheists are bad because if we don`t believe in hell we have no reason to be good. THERE GOD WOULDN`T LET PEOPLE WHO ARE ONLY BEHAVE BECAUSE THEIR SCARED INTO HEAVEN!!!!!!
sometimes i just have to rant…
most of the “moral gay haters” are also closethomosexuals. FACT

and somehow going to school in southern USA, i actually learn a few things in my school thats filled with these “people”!!!1
“i like to use quotes”

no shit kazimierez people who go to great lengths to bash gays and embody extreme masculinity are closet gays GoLLy
also agnosticism >>> atheism and theism
people need to stop being so confident!

@kazimierz
The Westboro Baptist Church never fails to let me want to punch one of them really hard. They’re worse than 10 year-old kids screaming obscenities over the internet.

Remember Stupid people will always ruins things
No matter what you do or where you go…. Stupidity will ruin the things.
Mostly, because the people are either ignorants or close-minded

Also remember that assholes will try to ruin the fun

Christians are dicks.
…OTHER Christians are dicks.
Over here, the government is much, much more dickish.
Than the Christians.
Who are pretty liberal here anyway/

@skyline: id like to point out that if you act out of violence against someone for their beliefs, even if they are completely ridiculous and hateful, youre arguably just as bad as the people you hate