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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 14, 2023 3:21:52 GMT
Final update on the culture war bullshit that happened at my storytime: I did this week's one in a pirate costume + leggings and tutu, and everyone loved it. I included a little message at the end about what happened the week earlier, and everyone was super supportive.
Well, everyone except the parent who spread it to the right-wing nutjobs. Her argument to me was that, aside from also thinking it inappropriate, she objected to the drag storytime details being kept discreet. Which is why she spread the information around.
Which is utter, utter bullshit - I half considered showing her some of the emails we got as an answer to why we wanted it kept fucking discreet - but there you go. I did it, the people who mattered supported it, and who cares about the people that didn't.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jun 14, 2023 3:46:06 GMT
Final update on the culture war bullshit that happened at my storytime: I did this week's one in a pirate costume + leggings and tutu, and everyone loved it. I included a little message at the end about what happened the week earlier, and everyone was super supportive. Well, everyone except the parent who spread it to the right-wing nutjobs. Her argument to me was that, aside from also thinking it inappropriate, she objected to the drag storytime details being kept discreet. Which is why she spread the information around. Which is utter, utter bullshit - I half considered showing her some of the emails we got as an answer to why we wanted it kept fucking discreet - but there you go. I did it, the people who mattered supported it, and who cares about the people that didn't. Good on you.
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Post by LegendaryApe on Jun 14, 2023 5:14:00 GMT
Great stuff Mola.
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Post by technoish on Jun 14, 2023 7:01:39 GMT
Ooh now you know who the parent is, can you just exclude them? Tell them they are not welcome?
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 14, 2023 7:07:59 GMT
Ooh now you know who the parent is, can you just exclude them? Tell them they are not welcome? Yeah, I don't really know what to do about that particular problem. Excluding the parent might be justified, but I'd feel bad for her kid. It's not the child's fault, she's more chill than the parent is!
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Post by geefe on Jun 14, 2023 7:13:05 GMT
Perfectly within your rights to exclude one or both. At the end of the day, actions have consequences. If the kid gets upset at not being able to come, she'll have to ask mummy why.
Mummy will probably lie, however. But do feel free to show the mum some of those emails. You could even ask her to read one of them aloud for you.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 14, 2023 7:21:03 GMT
I mean, sure I'd be justified doing that. The question is whether I want to. Right now I'm not sure.
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Post by jono62 on Jun 14, 2023 7:22:57 GMT
I like that idea:
Today's storytime is some bitchcunt who couldn't keep their mouth shut about storytime and it had to be cancelled. She is going to explain what she did, why she did it, who she spoke to and then she is going to read some emails we received after she did it.
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 14, 2023 7:23:45 GMT
That's bloody effing brilliant, Mola! Very well done.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 14, 2023 7:23:57 GMT
Small colorful display on the library wall "Selected death threats that our staff received this month"
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Post by mothercruncher on Jun 14, 2023 7:35:02 GMT
Fuck the bigots! Not literally, I bet it’d be *really* boring sex.
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Post by technoish on Jun 14, 2023 7:35:51 GMT
I mean, sure I'd be justified doing that. The question is whether I want to. Right now I'm not sure. Understandable.this person has put you in a difficult place. If she didn't like drag story telling and disagreed with it, she can just bloody well not turn up.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 14, 2023 7:37:52 GMT
Did you ask her how she felt about you doing storytime in a tutu? I assume she was ok with it?
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Post by geefe on Jun 14, 2023 7:38:51 GMT
Small colorful display on the library wall "Selected death threats that our staff received this month" The children could draw pictures to illustrate them
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Post by simple on Jun 14, 2023 8:26:50 GMT
Small colorful display on the library wall "Selected death threats that our staff received this month" We used to have a noticeboard up that was ‘You said / we did’ You said: kill all drag queens We did: storytime in a tutu fuck you
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 14, 2023 9:19:38 GMT
Did you ask her how she felt about you doing storytime in a tutu? I assume she was ok with it? It was funny, she pulled the whole "I don't have a problem with drag, some of my best friends are drag queens!" gambit. Like the problem is just that kids shouldn't see it. Which is, again, bullshit; it's like not allowing your kids to see movies because not all movies are for kids. But even if the show was inappropriate for kids, the solution is to NOT TAKE YOUR KID TO SEE IT. Anyway, we'll see what happens next week. Either way I wish her the best in protecting her children from the awful secret that some men like to dress up.
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Post by jono62 on Jun 14, 2023 9:28:08 GMT
Yeah, but that person could have been a predator, did you think about that? They could have gone in the woman's bathroom and predatored. It would be fine if they weren't wearing a dress as they wouldn't be a predator. Normal clothed people aren't predators. Some of my best friends are dress wearing predators.
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Post by geefe on Jun 14, 2023 9:42:34 GMT
Mrs Doubtfire but Robin Williams is a Predator
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Post by cubby on Jun 14, 2023 9:50:05 GMT
Holy shit that just got greenlit at Universal.
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Post by kal on Jun 14, 2023 15:52:22 GMT
It finally happened. Political correctness has actually gone mad.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Jun 14, 2023 15:54:39 GMT
Grr, stupid sexy Nazi cats.
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Post by kal on Jun 14, 2023 15:55:11 GMT
For those not familiar the ‘explicit sexual material’ in question is naked mice in classic pornographic poses such as being led to the gas chamber, or killing themselves in the bath to avoid capture by the Nazis.
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Post by rhaegyr on Jun 14, 2023 16:15:22 GMT
I've read Maus a few times and couldn't even remember any nudity apart from the scenes you mention (and even then it's a struggle).
It's not really the thing you take away from the book. Fucking hell.
Edit - Unfortunately this isn't the only time it's been removed from the curriculum - a school in Tennesse had it removed last year for 'rough language' and the drawing of a nude woman (I don't even recall this part).
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Post by simple on Jun 14, 2023 16:47:21 GMT
Oh wow, I hope they don’t discover Primo Levi’s Mills & Boon work
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 14, 2023 17:09:28 GMT
I had seen that one of the prominent people who got some books banned in Florida is woman who doesn't even fully understand English but she understands the word "communism" and seeing that word anywhere is bad. So this is where we're at. The Maus stuff I had heard about before and I guess is the inevitable slide into ignorance and "being offended" as a national pastime and ensuring that nothing shakes the idea of America God's chosen country and by design completely eradicating critical thinking and ensuring that compliant white babies are born en masse. At this point it's hard to see a difference between ISIS and the far right movement in America at present.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 14, 2023 23:04:15 GMT
Maus is premium furry content.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 15, 2023 5:18:57 GMT
Aren't the people being madly politically correct the people who continually decry political correctness gone mad?? I am getting so confused.
I looked up a list of the most banned books over the past few years, and realised that I'd bought my kids a number of them already. I had a sudden panic that I was a terrible parent and flicked through them, but there's nowt in any of them that seems problematic to me.
I guess I''d better buy them Maus then...
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Post by Danno on Jun 15, 2023 9:07:46 GMT
Aren't the people being madly politically correct the people who continually decry political correctness gone mad?? I am getting so confused. I looked up a list of the most banned books over the past few years, and realised that I'd bought my kids a number of them already. I had a sudden panic that I was a terrible parent and flicked through them, but there's nowt in any of them that seems problematic to me. I guess I''d better buy them Maus then... I think Stephen King said recently that (paraphrasing) if a book is being banned you should probably be reading it
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 15, 2023 9:13:45 GMT
I mean, as a hand-wringing parent myself, I do think that there are some books that aren't really suitable for younger kids. I think The Boys was on one of the lists. I've never read it, so I don't know how violent it is, but iirc the tv show is pretty violent.
But 90% of the other books looked fine, at least for over 12s which is jr high school age I think.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 15, 2023 9:17:00 GMT
And I think it was Wesley Crusher off Star Trek who said that no person in history has ever been remembered as being in the right when banning a book.
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