tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post27440223963705165..comments2023-12-25T00:38:19.500-08:00Comments on Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog (archive): Banned Books Week Is Starting A Little Early This Year...Sarah Stevensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-61483525087758371842010-09-20T11:58:59.322-07:002010-09-20T11:58:59.322-07:00This reminds me of the parent up here who filed a ...This reminds me of the parent up here who filed a formal compliant with the Toronto District School Board about The Handmaid's Tale, claiming it was anti-Christian and sexist. <br /><br />Scroggins too has completely (and deliberately?) missed the point with Speak and would probably prefer that rape not be written about in YA fiction at all which is something that I can't comprehend. How will we ever change things and bring understanding to issues if we don't write about them?C. K. Kelly Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03152997234365905131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-50388099698088525102010-09-19T16:08:45.656-07:002010-09-19T16:08:45.656-07:00Tanita: Tired is exactly how I felt when I first b...Tanita: Tired is exactly how I felt when I first began to read about Scroggins's challenge of <i>Speak</i> as soft porn. As he recounted the story the way he saw it, I wondered if we had actually read the same book. <br /><br />I believe I remember reading in one of Madeleine L'Engle's nonfiction books about someone challenging <i>A Wind in the Door</i> as pornographic because the person considered <i>kything</i> to be a metaphor for sex. <br /><br />Enough, already.Saints and Spinnershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08532215042953620628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-42258788963943526372010-09-19T10:23:04.759-07:002010-09-19T10:23:04.759-07:00Argh argh argh argh!
Obviously, this makes me inc...Argh argh argh argh!<br /><br />Obviously, this makes me incoherent. I find it appalling and inhumane that anyone would consider <i>Speak</i> to be pornography. <br /><br />I also find this more than a little ironic in light of the book itself, since this opinion writer's stance seems to (indirectly or directly; haven't read the piece yet) promote ignorance and silence over education and advocacy. <br /><br />People like this always seem to me to be more concerned with preserving their children's elusive "moral sensibilities" than their actual physical and psychological health. And that truly worries me.<br /><br />Here's me chipping in on the virtual masseuse and ice cream...Sarah Stevensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.com