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1. •  
     CommentAuthorAudley Strange
   • CommentTimeNov 22nd 2009

    (7266.1)
   Yeah let's stop kids reading "adult" (ahem) fiction, send them back to their rooms where they can spend all day shouting "nig" and "fag" at random strangers across XBox Live while they indulge in obscenely well rendered ultraviolence before they have learned basic socialisation skills! Hooray.
2. • CommentAuthorPooka
   • CommentTimeNov 22nd 2009

    (7266.2)
   like I said....when a minor gets a library card, they should be required to give a parent's phone number. If the book is in question, call the damned parents. That will put all responsibility on them...where it belongs. problem solved...
   
   and yes...kentucky is full of stereotypes. Although I think the "stereotype" is really brain damage from all the coal slurry in the water ;p (I'm allowed to say this....i'm a native)
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     CommentAuthormister hex
   • CommentTimeNov 22nd 2009

    (7266.3)
   @Pooka - I didn't mean to imply that those who hail from the great state of Kentucky are all ass-raping hillbillies. And brain-damage knows no borders.
   
   I remember reading my older sister's (!) copies of Heavy Metal, when every issue had a sexy robot woman on the cover. I turned out fine. (Scans the crowd. Nervous coughs but otherwise, no dissent. RIGHT? Right.)
   
   And honestly, 90% of the Black Dossier was going to go right over that kid's head unless she's seen The Third Man.
4. • CommentAuthorRenThing
   • CommentTimeNov 22nd 2009

    (7266.4)
   @Pooka
   
   When I was younger, children weren't allowed to check out books on their own until they were about thirteen or so; parents had to accompany them.
   
   The thing that gets me about the arguments that Marty is making is that he is effectively arguing that parenting should be done by someone else other than the parent (by ruling that children shouldn't have access to such books). What if her parents have no problem with her reading that sort of thing? My mom frowned when I brought home my first Transmet TPB, what with the nearly constant swearing, nudity, and violence. She asked me why I read it and I told her that it was the ideas presented in the book, especially when contrasted with the world the story takes place in, that interested me; after hearing that it wasn't any of the things that she found objectionable she let me read it. *shrug*
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     CommentAuthorJJH
   • CommentTimeNov 22nd 2009

    (7266.5)
   Once agin, it all comes down to parents, the ones who refuse to take responsibility for their own children and the ones who think they can dictate what other parents do with their own kids. That old lady needs to go join a knitting circle and shut the fuck up.
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     CommentAuthorRootfireember
   • CommentTimeNov 22nd 2009

    (7266.6)
   JJH
   -keep her out of my knitting circle, thankyou very much!
   Though I generally agree with your first statement, there.