When I was in HS, “Catcher in the Rye” was THE book to read, according to our newly minted, very LIBERAL English teacher, right out of college, at the time, ink barely dry on her sheepskin.
She put it on our REQUIRED READING LIST, along with Hemmingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”.
Good heaven’s! It’s a wonder we all didn’t commit suicide after reading that trash!
Who in their right mind would think that reading a novel about some teenager trying to get laid and a war veteran that can’t is a good idea to make hormone enraged teenagers read?..................
In my college years, I briefly dated a girl who was so into “Catcher in the Rye”, that she had a cat named Holden Caulfield. At the time, I didn’t know liberal from conservative from a hole in the ground, but I ended up breaking up with her because she was a nut. AND liberal. AND her mother had passed away, and her father was estranged from the family unit. No parental guidance at all.
When I got up this morning and sat down with my cup of coffee, opened up my tablet and started reading posts here on FreeRepublic, I didn’t know I would get sucked into an ex-transgender’s odyssey into that world, and her escape from it. After reading it, I checked out the pictures on the web page you linked to.
What a remarkable story. It was fascinating, looking thru a window into that world. It gives me a better understanding of what is going on with that.
THAT was an education! I’m glad the young lady was able to break free of that movement. God Bless her.
Thanks for posting this!