YEA! just let people love eachother man! freelove! They’re all consenting adults, age gaps a commie liberul myth, amirite? It’s not illegal so there’s nothing wrong about a rich man having a gf who happens to be 50 years younger than them. That’s just called capitalism in action. Free love and free markets, amirite brothers?

reading the bible is a surefire way to make more atheists

That was true when kids were taught critical thinking and media literacy skills. A lot of kids today are barely literate thanks to “no child left behind” and state test focusing. And, that was before the flood of tech and chatGPT in the classroom.

Realistically, what’s going to happen is these kids are going to “read” a passage, not be able to interpret its meaning. Then be told what it means from their heavily biased “instructor” with an agenda. It will amount to state sponsored religious propaganda.

This is why christian nationalist want to defund schools and critical thinking skills. They don’t want you to “think” and question. They want you to be told.

lmao even

okay.

glad you, who doesn’t know anything about my kid, has such strong opinions on what they’re capable of handling. You, who has no idea what they’ve been through or experienced, yet you seem to think YOU know what’s best for them.

Yea… cool.

I don’t give a fuck what you think. Gooooo fuck yourself right back.

Your child (that you don’t have) is not my child. And my child’s problems are not the same as every other childs. That’s how things work.

That you think, somehow, your parenting approach should be universal, or widely adopted, without considering that, i dunno, every child’s needs are different… shows you don’t know shit about parenting or kids. You seem to think that children are a monolith, that they all behave and respond the same way to things, and can all be trusted to do the same thing with the same materials.

That’s not how kids are. Some kids have diagnosed, alarming and problematic issues with mental health and violence. And maybe, letting them just consume material unsupervised and without and controls is not in their best interest, or the interests and safety of other around them. But you dont seem to get that. You want to live in this world where every kid is perfect, and totally reasonable, mature, healthy and understanding of morality. If you’re one of the lucky ones to have a kid like this, maybe you’d have a different view on just letting them consume whatever material they want.

Kids go on a shooting spree and everyone goes “why didn’t the parents do anything???”… “how did this kid get access to all this violent material???” And here I am, advocating that maybe parents should parent, and not let their kids just do whatever they want, get invovled with whatever they want… Maybe parents, who know their kids, should have some say in exactly what kinds of materials their kid has access too.

and ya’lll are like “UMMMM actually, trying to restrict any kid is evil and bad, and you should let them do whatever they want”. Jesusfuck.

You’re not a parent, obviously.

Maybe some kids can read it. Or maybe, brainrot world of free information shows that, actually, kids aren’t good at consuming adult material because they lack the context and understanding of consequences. Kids don’t think long term, they don’t comprehend abuse and trauma right. Letting kids read smut and bascially normalizing its content is going to leave them with a severely fucked up sense of sex and relationships because they have nothing else to base it on.

Is sex in real life like it is in porn? No. And if you watched a lot of fucked up porn and then just tried to do that shit like you thought “thats how sex is, right?” you’re going to have a bad time. And that’s neverminding that A LOT of adult fantasy is “Consensual Non-Consent” (or adjacent, stalkery stuff). So that’s going to be kids baseline for how to behave in a relationship. What else would they have to compare it to? Is that a good idea? Do you think that it’s smart to normalize to a bunch of teen boys that it’s normal to just force yourself on women, because actually, just like in the books, that’s what they really want and like…

That’s why kids don’t need to be reading adult smut, they don’t have the understanding to know that it’s FANTASY.

Removing “Roots” is deplorable, it’s an important time piece that captures the narrative and conditions of slavery in the United States…

but… removing “A Court of Thorns and Roses” from children’s school libraries seems appropriate. It’s an introductory book to a series of adult fantasy novels (yes, that kind of adult fantasy) that get progressively more “spicy” (see: pornographic) as the series continues. And it being the first book doesn’t mean it’s tame and gets worse in later books. It’s a bit more explicit than “and then they held hand and fade to black”. It’s more like “and then the main character stradles a hairy man in an animal mask to climax”… yea, that book doesn’t need to be in a school library.

EDIT: ohshi, actually it’s not just that they had to remove the first book, they had all of them removed.

Which implies there was possibly a time when those books were in school libraries. Which is basically just smut at that point. We don’t stock Playboys in the school library either.

Don’t forget the Seven Tenets of Satanism