Heck, they probably even have aa compendium of little comic books, the kind "men" like.
Posted on 07/07/2010 1:38:38 PM PDT by MissTed
A Japanese serial graphic novel genre popular with young teens has raised the ire of a Crestview mother whose teenage son got hold of an adult version of the genre from the Crestview Public Library.
“Manga” depicts highly stylized adventure and, occasionally, violence in fantasy settings.
Margaret Barbaree, founder of a citizens’ group called Protect Our Children, presented examples from a manga book to the Crestview City Council last week that she described as “graphic” and “shocking,” taken from material she said is “available to children” at the Crestview Public Library.
“My son lost his mind when he found this,” Barbaree said of the manga book from which her examples were taken.
She said her son had removed the book unsupervised from the library’s general stacks last summer and put it in his backpack. She has kept it ever since.
“Now he’s in a home for extensive therapy,” she said.
Several months ago, Barbaree had circulated a petition bearing 226 signatures of citizens protesting the availability of manga, which she mistakenly referred to as “anime,” or Japanese animation.
However, the library said some patrons complained they were misled when they signed the petition.
“They told us she (Barbaree) approached them at the Christmas parade and asked them to sign a petition protesting pornography in the library,” said Resource Librarian Sandra Dreaden.
Barbaree said Library Director Jean Lewis explained to her that there is a demand for manga, and that the library strives to meet the needs of its patrons.
City Council President Charles Baugh Jr. assured Barbaree that “we have safeguards in place to protect our children and we have committees that review library purchases so they meet the standards of the (American) Library Association.”
The books that concerned Barbaree “are in the library for those who wish to partake of them and they are in a section of the library” for adult patrons, said Baugh, who visited the library himself the day after the council meeting and said he found the manga available in the young adult section perfectly innocuous.
“We follow up with our citizens’ concerns,” Baugh said after meeting with library staff and viewing the young adult manga.
Baugh also confirmed that the book Barbaree’s son had taken was in the general stacks well away from the children’s and young adult books.
“Our library is well managed and well staffed,” Baugh told Barbaree while assuring her, “I am a family man and I understand what you are saying.”
Lewis said the manga available in the young adult section of the library is oriented toward young teen readers and does not contain the adult themes of the book Barbaree’s son took. That book had been in the general stacks, on a top shelf in a section with other graphic novels and comic books not geared toward young readers.
“We have policies and procedures in place to prevent underage children from accessing those materials,” Baugh said.
What kind of library has pronographic comic books?
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What kind of library has comic books?
You need to get out more. Things have changed in the past 25 years.
Idiocracy IS our future.
Same kind that has phonographic books...
No photos?
I wanna see what caused him to lose his mind.
Idiocracy is now.
Do you read pornographic comic books like this Manga mentioned in the article?
Well.....if you check some websites there are hentai about dismembered women and their, um, adventures with men. Google or Bing hentai.
I don't believe I should be forced at the point of a gun to pay for libraries. If you want a book, buy it.
The mom may be a drama queen, BUT... the library is wasting taxpayer monies on oartoon porn (and game stations, too, I’ll wager) while the actual book shelves are stocked with pap and starved of classics.
The ALA is a den of theives and perverts.
“Now he’s in a home for extensive therapy,” she said.
and thats because of the book ? Bullshit ~
Manga is general comic books. Hentai is porn/violence.
“Idiocracy is now.”
Along your lines: Idiocracy is, unfortunately, represented by just over 50 percent of voters in 2008!
Personal responsibility, self-control, and respect for elders. I seem to recall another country that had values like that...
Heck, they probably even have aa compendium of little comic books, the kind "men" like.
The mom may be a drama queen, BUT... the library is wasting taxpayer monies on oartoon porn (and game stations, too, I’ll wager) while the actual book shelves are stocked with pap and starved of classics.
The ALA is a den of theives and perverts.
Censorship in the library begins with the refusal to shelve donated conservative books in the first place. It continues with the purging of old books that are not damaged or "outdated" by more current information (check your library booksale carts and tables).
Saw the film for the first time last night, and I have to agree.
So...the kid went bonkers after he stole the magazine?
And then mama kept it?
Bears repeating. There's a vast, yawning chasm of difference between manga safely and reliably tween- or teen-appropriate (e.g. Mai the Psychic Girl, say, or Yu Yu Hakusho); more thematically complex stuff targeted towards older teens/young adults (Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, Monster, etc.); and the outright pornographic crud.
From the sounds of it anti-social, violent, mentally ill crud.
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