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Post by imanangel on Sept 10, 2015 18:25:47 GMT -5
www.yahoo.com/parenting/mom-launches-war-against-bestselling-book-about-128725553532.htmlI honestly do NOT understand the need of some people to try to dictate what other people can and cannot read. Her child was given a different book to read, but apparently, that wasn't good enough. The mom now wants the book banned because the character in the book stuck her finger in her vagina, looking for a lump. I. DON'T. GET. PEOPLE!!!! Self checks for cancer is not pornography!
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Post by thyme4change on Sept 10, 2015 18:29:55 GMT -5
Can't she just rip out that page?
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Post by imanangel on Sept 10, 2015 18:32:14 GMT -5
Can't she just rip out that page? Or just have HER child read the alternative book. Why do people feel the need to get books banned for everyone else? I really just don't understand why people feel the need to force their beliefs on others.
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Post by Jaguar on Sept 10, 2015 18:32:31 GMT -5
OH.MY.GEEZ........is everyone just breathing in stupid air now......<runs and hides>
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Sept 10, 2015 18:32:56 GMT -5
That is a super sexy way to check for cancer
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Post by thyme4change on Sept 10, 2015 18:37:39 GMT -5
Well, our kids don't need to know anything about the subject of medical research and science. That ain't how 'murica rolls.
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Post by imanangel on Sept 10, 2015 18:40:48 GMT -5
That is a super sexy way to check for cancer I am sorry, how do you get sexy out of that? Are self breast exams super sexy too?
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Sept 10, 2015 18:42:05 GMT -5
That is a super sexy way to check for cancer I am sorry, how do you get sexy out of that? Are self breast exams super sexy too? Not quite as sexy.
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Post by thyme4change on Sept 10, 2015 18:42:09 GMT -5
I always get turned on in my mammogram appointments.
Not.
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Post by dannylion on Sept 10, 2015 18:43:35 GMT -5
Maybe she's afraid it will encourage her son to consider a career as a gynecologist.
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Post by haapai on Sept 10, 2015 18:46:02 GMT -5
It's a sad story, but I'd like to point out that this woman's thinking isn't quite as outdated as we'd like to think. I'm only 46 and my parents are well-educated and very secular but I grew up in an environment where mentioning a cervix or heroin in front of anyone under the age of majority was a real no-no. It was insane, but it wasn't that long ago.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2015 19:13:06 GMT -5
She's not giving her 15yo much credit by thinking he needs to be protected from reading about Henrietta Lacks. I hope her son is smarter than she seems to think he is. If she doesn't want him to read it, fine. But she should mind her own business because it's not pornography.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Sept 10, 2015 19:20:37 GMT -5
Her son probably is like all 16 year olds and has an issue of pilfered Playboy under his mattress. Hell, he may have even 'checked a girl for cancer'.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Sept 10, 2015 19:20:59 GMT -5
I don't get people either. If everything was banned that somebody in this world didn't like there would be nothing left including people. But bless her heart that she thinks her son has never heard about anything pornographic before if that's what she considers porno! Denial... it's for delusional people a/k/a nut jobs!
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 10, 2015 19:28:09 GMT -5
That is a super sexy way to check for cancer So is checking your testicles for lumps .
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Post by imanangel on Sept 10, 2015 19:29:01 GMT -5
That is a super sexy way to check for cancer So is checking your testicles for lumps . Adam Levine did make it look pretty damn sexy.....
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Post by kittensaver on Sept 10, 2015 19:31:36 GMT -5
That is a super sexy way to check for cancer So is checking your testicles for lumps .
[Hey! some of us old married ladies think that it's OUR job, just sayin' . . . ]
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 10, 2015 19:35:42 GMT -5
Not surprised the mother complaining is from Tennessee, home of the Scopes Monkey trial.
By the way-the book and subject matter is excellent. A fascinating tale.
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Post by thyme4change on Sept 10, 2015 19:53:39 GMT -5
Same church as Kim Davis?
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Post by imanangel on Sept 10, 2015 20:00:59 GMT -5
I have never read the book, but it is now added to my reading list!
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Post by haapai on Sept 10, 2015 20:26:39 GMT -5
Same church as Kim Davis? More like the same church as Nancy Reagan. We'd be having a very different conversation if this mom had argued that the book contained material that was "too adult" for her son or material that he "didn't need to know" instead of idiotically calling it "pornographic". Such thinking was very respectable, or at least hard to argue against, in the eighties.
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 10, 2015 20:29:35 GMT -5
I read that book a few years ago one book club. I sent a copy to DD.
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Post by swamp on Sept 10, 2015 20:32:16 GMT -5
I hate People.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2015 20:32:58 GMT -5
We need to go back to TV shows where married couples slept in separate beds, and the women wore head to foot nightgowns.
That'll protect the innocent minds of our children!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2015 20:37:59 GMT -5
Same church as Kim Davis? More like the same church as Nancy Reagan. We'd be having a very different conversation if this mom had argued that the book contained material that was "too adult" for her son or material that he "didn't need to know" instead of idiotically calling it "pornographic". Such thinking was very respectable, or at least hard to argue against, in the eighties. Her calling it pornography makes me wonder what's going on in her head that that's what she got out of the book. I think sometimes when people raise a big ruckus about something that offends them, the publicly declared issue isn't their real issue. Something they're wrestling with themselves is really the issue they're fighting against. Or maybe she's just an idiot.
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Post by swamp on Sept 10, 2015 20:45:52 GMT -5
More like the same church as Nancy Reagan. We'd be having a very different conversation if this mom had argued that the book contained material that was "too adult" for her son or material that he "didn't need to know" instead of idiotically calling it "pornographic". Such thinking was very respectable, or at least hard to argue against, in the eighties. Her calling it pornography makes me wonder what's going on in her head that that's what she got out of the book. I think sometimes when people raise a big ruckus about something that offends them, the publicly declared issue isn't their real issue. Something they're wrestling with themselves is really the issue they're fighting against. Or maybe she's just an idiot. I'm voting idiot.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 10, 2015 20:48:30 GMT -5
But your clients are paying for your new dock!
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 10, 2015 20:50:38 GMT -5
More like the same church as Nancy Reagan. We'd be having a very different conversation if this mom had argued that the book contained material that was "too adult" for her son or material that he "didn't need to know" instead of idiotically calling it "pornographic". Such thinking was very respectable, or at least hard to argue against, in the eighties. Her calling it pornography makes me wonder what's going on in her head that that's what she got out of the book. I think sometimes when people raise a big ruckus about something that offends them, the publicly declared issue isn't their real issue. Something they're wrestling with themselves is really the issue they're fighting against. Or maybe she's just an idiot. Yes.
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 10, 2015 20:55:52 GMT -5
Pornography? What happened to her was awful, frankly. But what came out of it was amazing. Graphic? Yes. But fascinating from a medical standpoint but awful from a human standpoint. She was, after all, a human being. It was discussed that it reminded some people of those syphilllis experiments.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Sept 11, 2015 8:06:54 GMT -5
More like the same church as Nancy Reagan. We'd be having a very different conversation if this mom had argued that the book contained material that was "too adult" for her son or material that he "didn't need to know" instead of idiotically calling it "pornographic". Such thinking was very respectable, or at least hard to argue against, in the eighties. Her calling it pornography makes me wonder what's going on in her head that that's what she got out of the book. I think sometimes when people raise a big ruckus about something that offends them, the publicly declared issue isn't their real issue. Something they're wrestling with themselves is really the issue they're fighting against. Or maybe she's just an idiot. I'm guessing she's offended by the word vagina.
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