Posted on 07/07/2010 1:38:38 PM PDT by MissTed
ROTFL. Our daughter and son-in-law love the manga and anime stuff, make prize-winning costumes - last participated in the convention in San Jose. They've told me about some of the more twisted Manga, usually people who really, really, really want attention. Generally dressed in costumes you wish you could erase from your memory but no worse than some of the patrons of the local Walmart...
Yeah the theft part of all this seems be secondary.
I nooticed that there was no age mentioned so he could be 35 for all we know? Drama queen!
few things will make the stomach churn like watching 40 year old, morbidly obese, neckbeards dressed as skimpy clothed anime characters.
Manga is basically comics. Hentai is the violent and graphic type. Sailor Moon in comic form would be general manga. However, Sailor Moon doing the deed would be hentai.
>> What kind of library has pronographic comic books?
(rolling eyes) Some people are just helpless... lemmee check my rolodex and I’ll get back to you with some addresses.
Yup. I’d say the theft part shows there were existing problems.
It doesnt say why the kid is in extensive therapy. Pretty poor reporting. They go from he had it in his bag to he is in extensive therapy. What happened in between?
Did he read it and start harming animals? Did he shut himself off from everyone? did he refuse to eat? Did he go about his life like normal but his mom threw him in therapy to gain sympathy points for her proto-fascist MADD wannabe group?
We need answers to this.
The irony is that many of the activities depicted in the more violent manga are relatively rare in real life in Japan. Access by minors is less than you might think largely because nearly any adult can shake his or her finger at nearly any kid and say "You shouldn't be reading that," and the parents will come to the defense...of the adult. Try that one in the States.
When I lived there my neighborhood Mom & Pop had vending machines containing manga, soft-porn mags, beer, and, yes, whiskey, and it was less than half a block from a secondary school. The kids didn't bother them because they knew what would happen if they did. America used to be a little like that but it isn't anymore. Just a thought.
You nailed 'em. My kids have photos to prove it.
He checked out The Audacity of Hope? Dreams of My Father? If he read It Takes A Village therapy will be useless.
There are segments of Japanese pop culture that are fixated with extreme rape and violence against women. Some of which is fairly mainstream.
It isn’t outside the realm of possibility for manga to deal with some subject matter that is quite extreme and depraved.
>> America used to be a little like that but it isn’t anymore. Just a thought.
Personal responsibility?
That’s not progressive thinking, you know. That sort of thing went out of favor a generation or so after WWII. Reactionary!
How did we become a nation of such pampered, sheltered victims?
Disgusting...
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.
BULLSTALIN.
The ALA has NO "standards". They do not believe in a notion of "age appropriate materials".
If you kid wants to thumb through copies of Playboy (for interviews with President Carter and other historic figures), go right ahead.
Want to check out an R or NC-17 rated film? That's no concern for the ALA.
Who do you think it is that fights against porn filters (or even tapping people on the shoulder for cruising porn sites at the library) in public?
Whether it is Japanese Manga or the Comix (emphasis on X) of Robert Crumb, they are actively against putting any restrictions on the materials in the library.
Equity of access means that all people have the information they need-regardless of age, education, ethnicity, language, income, physical limitations or geographic barriers. It means they are able to obtain information in a variety of formats-electronic, as well as print. It also means they are free to exercise their right to know without fear of censorship or reprisal.
ALA - Free Access to Libraries for Minors "An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights"
Library policies and procedures that effectively deny minors equal and equitable access to all library resources and services available to other users violate the Library Bill of Rights. The American Library Association opposes all attempts to restrict access to library services, materials, and facilities based on the age of library users....Libraries should not limit the selection and development of library resources simply because minors will have access to them. Institutional self-censorship diminishes the credibility of the library in the community, and restricts access for all library users....
Children and young adults unquestionably possess First Amendment rights, including the right to receive information through the library in print, nonprint, or digital format. Constitutionally protected speech cannot be suppressed solely to protect children or young adults from ideas or images a legislative body believes to be unsuitable for them.
1 Librarians and library governing bodies should not resort to age restrictions in an effort to avoid actual or anticipated objections, because only a court of law can determine whether material is not constitutionally protected....
A store that sells same materials found in a library to a minor could be criminally charged with corrupting a minor.
Ran across RanXerox or something?
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