Ladies and Gentlemen....It's Ranty McRanterson

Ladies and Gentlemen....It's Ranty McRanterson

Few things piss me off more than book banning.
How, in a free country, can you justify banning a book?

I don't know about other states, but in Texas, uptight christians with sticks up their asses are constantly challenging local libraries trying to get perfectly wonderful books banned.
It's happening in Montgomery County. Their focus is on two books, It's Perfectly Normal and It's So Amazing.
I worked in a library for 2 years and I cataloged both of these books and perused them.
Granted, it made me a little uncomfortable looking at these explicit drawings of a naked mom and cartoons of mom giving birth to baby sister, but kids need to know these things and these books explain them gently without embarrassment or shame.
The kids in the age group that these books target should be accompanied by a parent when at the office anyway. This is a huge problem in the office. People dropping their kids off, expecting the office to babysit them. It's ridiculous.

Here is a list of more challenged books:

Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Summer of My German Soldier - Bette Greene

Are these people kidding me??
We have video games like Grand Theft Auto and kid-targeted WWE wrestling with their sexually explicit scenes and their foul language and you have these holier than thou, sexless robots, pissing and moaning about Harry Potter?
Give me a fucking break!

Posted by De at July 29, 2003 10:00 PM