Comment on GOP Mayoral Candidate Says She Won't 'Discriminate' Against White Supremacists

• Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  She wrote gender queer. This article has a bunch of pictures from it, including the blowjob and sex scene.

  theiowastandard.com/shocking-images-from-book-gen…

  My question is why do lefties want this book specifically in schools?

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  • irmoz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m a lefty and this is the first time I ever even heard of that book. By that description, I find it hard to believe there’s any movement to get that specific book in schools.

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    • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Its the most banned book in America or at least according to latimes usatoday and cbs. All argue for it to be in public school libraries and its disgusting.

      www.latimes.com/…/gender-queer-most-banned-book

      www.usatoday.com/story/…/11715584002/

      cbsnews.com/…/gender-queer-most-banned-challenged…

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      • irmoz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Then either there’s something you’re leaving out, you’re lying about something, or it’s more complicated than you’re saying, or than you realise

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  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For middle school it’s a bit much, but for high school I don’t see a problem. I’m guessing like 50% of students will have experimented with self-pleasure by freshman year and at least 25% will have had some kind of sexual activity with another person. These pictures are not very sexy nor are they meant to be. When I was in high school (before smartphones were everywhere) I still had easy access to porn. The big problem is that porn is a terrible resource for learning about sexuality AND it’s way easier to find than someone’s honest account of their own sexual journey. Porn has no educational value, but I believe this does. If there’s at least one book in the library depicting bloody violence and gore then I can’t see a good reason to ban a book with a single-frame, 2D drawing of a penis in someone’s mouth.

    Unclutch your pearls already.

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