Comment on Please check you kids' Halloween candy, everyone

• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, most banned books are sex-education or contain something that the conservative parents that don’t actually read these books won’t like because of some mistaken idea that teaching kids about the world is a bad thing

  As someone who has perused multiple of the books on the ban list: not a single one I’ve seen is something that you’d legit keep out of a kids hands unless you were some weird prude who hated sex. Eg, a conservative with little sex education themselves

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  • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gender queer is sex education. Just because it has information in it doesn’t mean its appropriate.

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    • almar_quigley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mommies and daddies technically are a sex ed concept. It’s all about context friend.

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      • doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’d argue talking about how babies are made with mommy and daddy is just as appropriate or inappropriate as talking about changing sex, depending on the age, occasion and intent.

        Changing ‘Gender’ without deviating sexually however should be fine imho… I’m a straight male and I have never shunned anybody for what they think or believe, many of which were very different than my experience of life or personal belief. If I can’t relate I just accept, and I don’t think any information about genderfluidity would have changed me, but instead maybe even better educated me to know how to respect others that are cause I’ve been in quite a few arguments about it just for being uninformed about something that didn’t apply to me. It’s harder than it should be to ask “why” for reasoning and clarification as a binary without apparently sounding condescendent, so advance information about it would have actually been helpful to me… 😅

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• PoopMonster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You wanna hear something mind-blowing? When I go to a library and don’t like a book I just don’t read it…

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  • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, doesn’t mean that libraries can or should carry every book ever made. School libraries should have books appropriate for the students.

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    • PoopMonster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Problem is idiots will see an authors last name being Gay and immediately call for a ban without even knowing what’s in the book.

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• Uranium3006@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fuck off book burner

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• DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  blood soaked tampon left until the blood curdled. It’s not exactly appropriate for kids

  Well shit, I’m in my early 30s and it’s definitely sounding like it’s not appropriate for me either

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• doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh, these kinds of “banbedbook for children”… 😅

  Thank you so much for not just downvoting me, but at least enlightening me of what I didn’t get! I appreciate that! Many just downvote without making me any wiser, even when I ask for clarification… 😅

  Either way, those kinds of books are ibdeed not fpr children and are bad to be getting in candy, hands down agreed on that! I just saw “banned books” and assumed books with information that make you question the powers that be or the preset values taught… It’s ok to think differently and to critic information that only comes from one side of the story. But it of course is a bad thing to give any sexual or gorey content to children, I just didn’t think about that kind of bad when it is put in front of “books”, tbh, if it’s sexual content I’d more expect it to be ‘pictures’ then instead of ‘books’,…

  Anyway, again, thanks for clarifying!

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