Posted on 11/02/2016 8:26:38 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
That was the kid's magazine that was (Fuzzy Geerdes/Shutterstock)
You may recall the recent post here revealing that Highlights For Children, the venerable magazine, had come under fire from SJWs for its policy of not featuring families headed by gay couples in the magazine, out of a willingness to allow parents of the magazine’s young subscribers the opportunity to talk to their children about homosexuality as they considered appropriate.
Well, the SJWs got their scalp. A reader forwarded me the correspondence between herself and the magazine around the issue. She kept writing, trying to get a straightforward answer about whether or not the magazine was going to feature same-sex families. Finally, out of frustration, she cancelled her family’s subscription, and told the magazine, “I think Highlights should continue being what it is and leave conversations about this sort of thing up to families.”
At last, the reader got a response. Emphasis below is mine:
Dear [Name],Thank you for your message, and I’m sorry that we were slow to respond.
Although I see that you have already canceled your subscription, I thought it still important to answer your questions about what Highlights means when we say we plan to be more fully reflective of all families, including families with same-sex parents.
As you know, Highlights publications focus on kids. We are general interest magazines, and we publish fiction and nonfiction of all types, as well as games, puzzles, jokes, and crafts. Our target audience is kids under the age of 12, most under the age of 8 or 9.
The themes we cover in our magazines are broad and universal—relatable to children trying to navigate childhood. Because children are our focus, we rarely show a full family in our illustrations, instead focusing on showing the child the reader relates to. When a parent is shown or integrated in a story, it is frequently just one parent because a good 800-word children’s story cannot support too many different characters.
When we do show families in the magazines, we make it a point to include diversity. We strive to be diverse in every way. The goal, however, is not to specifically call attention to diversity but instead to help kids understand that while differences exist, we are all actually more alike than different. For instance, from time to time we show families headed up by a grandparent or single parents. We show adoptive families, blended families, multi-generational families, and multi-racial families. In the future, we will depict same-sex families in our magazines in a manner consistent to the way all diverse families are depicted. This is in support of our mission to help children become their best selves and understand that all families, including theirs, are important.
We’re sorry to lose you as a subscriber, but I hope this email helps to clarify our position.
Sincerely,
Christine Cully
So, that settles that. Just wanted to update you. In five years, the magazine will no doubt face pressure to queer Gallant, or in some other way highlight children who claim to be gay or transgender — and it will yield, as institutions always do these days. I’m not being snarky. This will happen. These are small things, but they testify to the massive cultural change that has taken place. You might call it good, you might call it bad, but you have to call it a cultural revolution.
Can't we push back?
So now it would be “Jill & Jill went up the Hill to fetch a pail of water?” What’s Jack supposed to do?
Oh, wait, in this venue, Jack will still fall down and break his crown, (Male Bashing!) but Jill won’t come tubbling after.
I always thought Highlights for Children had gay articles. I mean, who didn’t think that Gallant was a going to turn out gay?
We could, but I wonder how many children really read this. I know my brother, sister and myself did. But my children never did. I never even thought of having them read it. So isn’t it a dying publication? I actually thought it was gone already.
we make it a point to include diversity. We strive to be diverse in every way.”
So their Official Goal is to DIVIDE PEOPLE instead of UNITING THEM?????
“Queering children’s culture.” Yes.
‘Diversity” is being used as a weapon to destroy all that remains good and decent in the USA.
Go, Trump, Go!
Goofus mocks homosexuals and hits them when no one is looking. Gallant frequents gay bars.
"Jill came back with 2.50....that ...... whore."
My mother was always bringing me Highlights when I was a kid back in the 1960s. They never came in the mailbox, so I think they were pass downs from one of the neighbors.
Mostly, I remember Goofus and Gallant.
Looking back, I think I got hooked on G&G because I couldn’t stand either one of them.
Goofus was a crude bully. Gallant was a prissy little goody two-shoes.
What they really needed was a third character to show how a regular guy would behave.
This is ultimately what comes of tolerating poofters: they spread their filth around everyplace they can.
Goofus tries to kiss the girls.
Galliant tries to kiss the boys.
:(
As bad as Mr Bungle!
I live near Highlights, and I know many people there.
I don’t imagine anyone there is happy with this. They are not a religious publication, but they are all decent folk. The building is nestled among a row of churches on Church Street in Honesdale, PA.
I also know that money doesn’t flow deep at this company, and they need to do whatever to keep about 100 people employed. Sad, really.
Well, let them know there will be layoffs coming in a several months, and to start scoping out a new job sooner than later.
I always suspected ‘Gallant” was
The sad thing is that their shrinking list of subscribers will continue to shrink, thus hastening the magazine's demise. When a company caters to the squeaky wheels of the world, they lose their core customers and do not gain enough from the complainers to offset the loss. They would have done well to continue as they have been, showing a "normal" parent and letting the reader decide if said parent was gay.
That settles it...no more Highlights for my kids.
And to think I applied for a job with them when we moved to Northeastern PA. Blech. Glad that didn’t pan out.
Enough with the “gay” euphemism already!
Thank you for posting this, this is really sad. Highlights Magazine has been in my family for I believe three generations but we will now be cancelling our two subscriptions. The phone number for their editorial department is (570) 253-1080 and the e-mail to the company is prdepartment@highlights.com if anyone else would like to contact them. Highlights has now declared itself to be an enemy combatant in the war to destroy our culture. We will not support them in their effort or let them corrupt our children.
;-)
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