Posted on 07/21/2004 4:58:49 AM PDT by snopercod
A few days ago my daughter related how she took my ten-year-old Grandson to the Eau Gallie, FL (near Melbourne) public library to check out some books. She turned him loose in the kids' section while she looked for some books for herself.
A while later, they each took their stack of books to the counter, checked them out, and went home. My daughter didn't inspect his choices any farther than the covers - big mistake. This is one of the books he chose (cool cover, right?):
"Meet Rally and Minnie-May -- The Gunsmith Cats -- two of the most fun-loving, well-armed, bounty-hunting women in Chicago! Whether they're chasing bail jumpers or fending off the mob, you can bet on a healthy supply of guns, bombs, car chases, and more guns! In this 176-page trade paperback -- collecting issues 1 through 6 of the series -- the pair run afoul of Bonnie and Clyde, a couple of hired guns working mob jobs in the Windy City. With their business interests running on opposite sides of the law, it's no surprise that the net result is gunfire and mayhem!"
Later in the day, Grandson shows Mom what's inside the book. Her eyes got big and her jaw dropped. Splattered across an entire page was a lewd sex act of the monica kind in graphic detail captioned with "OOOH, yeah!", "Oh Babe...!", MMPH!, etc.
My daughter turned some more pages and found episodes of cop killing, cocaine sniffing, drug dealing, prostitution, and normal, head-banging sex ("Twenty friggin' times" to quote the John) - all punctuated with assorted gutter language. There's a frame in there that even I can't figure out. Some guy is apparently performing fallatio on his gun barrel. His tongue is licking the side of it with the caption, "hahh...ahhh...huhh".
It turns out that "fun loving" character Minnie-May Hopkins portrays an underaged prostitute. Nice.
You know, I'm not a prude and not a "social conservative". But what the heck is a book like this doing in a public library at all, let alone in the childrens' section?
My daughter went back and talked to the woman at the desk, who thought this book was completely suitable, apparently. When asked why it was in the childrens' section, she said, "Oh this was probably misfiled. It should have been in the teenage section". When asked why it was in the library at all, the woman responded, "Because it's popular with the kids". Well hell, why not throw in a couple of beers with each book; That's popular with the kids, too.
I hope my daughter follows up on this. I recommended that she write a letter (with copies of the offending pages) to the Brevard County Supervisors and ask them why her tax dollars were being used to purchase this crap and push it on her children.
" Several years ago my wife took my son to the library and asked the librarian to recommend some good books. The librarian referred them to a particular novel that we later discovered promoted homosexuality. We complained to the library but it did no good. "
You would be surprised how many librarians (easy occupation) are gay, fag hags or swingers (gay lite). That's why they're pushing the homo-agenda so heavy.
When Madonna's photo book came out the Austin Public Library purchased copies for all their branches, and made them available to children. Their official response to my complaint was,
"we don't discriminate on the basis of age."
More proof of their abusing PCisms to slow drip indoctrinate their pedo-homo agenda.
Yeah destroying property that doesn't belong to you is the answer.
You sure?
"You sure?"
Are you?
Nope....thus the paranoia.
"Nope....thus the paranoia."
Sorry you're suffering better get that paranoia checked out by a professioanl.
:-)
Not any more. ;O)
Fritz wasn't always dirty. Robert Crumb started writing Fritz comix with his brother back in 1962 (if not earlier). When they were first published for the public, they appeared in Harvey Kurtzman's Help! magazine (maybe around 1964). The underground comix scene didn't really get under way until 1967 (and then they were sold at head shops).
Matchett-PI is our coordinator. Consider her pinged.
| Title | Gunsmith cats : Bonnie and Clyde / | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Sonoda, Kenichi. | |||
| Publisher | Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Comics, c1996. | |||
| Description | unp. : ill. ; 21 cm. | |||
| Series | Dark Horse Comics manga | |||
| Notes | "Nominated for a 1996 Tezuka Award." "This book collects issues one through six of the Dark Horse comic-book series Gunsmith Cats." |
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| ISBN | 1569712158 : | |||
| Subjects | Japanese comics. Organized crime--Comic books, strips, etc. |
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| Other Authors | Lewis, Dana. Smith, Toren. Saito, Tomoko. |
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| Variant Title | Bonnie and Clyde. | |||
| Library Holdings | ||||
| Location | Call Number | Status | ||
| Eau Gallie | 741.5 Son | Checked Out | ||
I'm not personally familair with "Gunsmith Cats," or manga in general, but my town's library is the same way: All the comics are with the young adult section. This strikes me as a problem of laziness and ignorance on the part of many librarians. Especially today, it's not safe to assume that all comics are meant for kids, or even young adults, so the library staff should make sure they're age-appropriate. For instance, I wouldn't even let a 10-year-old read "The Ultimates" (Marvel's Avengers revamp mentioned previously in this thread). The libraries should know what they're purchasing and putting on the shelves for kids.
"so the library staff should make sure they're age-appropriate. For instance, I wouldn't even let a 10-year-old read "The Ultimates" (Marvel's Avengers revamp mentioned previously in this thread). The libraries should know what they're purchasing and putting on the shelves for kids."
I agree. Lord knows many librarians have enough FREE time while on the clock since most of them spend it dishing on internet boards and chat rooms. GET BACK TO WORK!
Look what's under your nose!! I wonder if this is one for O'Reilly to showcase.
I guess I'm just getting old, but when I was ten years old, I was reading stuff like Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Robinson Crusoe, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Profiles in Courage, and stuff like that.
It is a type of media that comprises a wide array of genres. Just because it is a comic doesn't mean it is for children. Dirty comics (8-pagers/Tiajuana Bibles) go back to the 1920s. Comic strips started in the paper for adults. The underground spirit goes back to around 1960. Certainly by the mid-1980s when Art Spiegelman won a Pulitzer for Maus and Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen made headlines it became "common knowledge". Here were are 20-45 years later and STILL "educated" professionals in the librarian field are misfiling works in a demeaning manner.
Don't guess. Read my previous posts and provided links. Or not.
We do? How do you know?
Where do rights come from?
For rights to be unalienable and binding on all of us, they can only come from God. God's essence is goodness. He doesn't will evil, so He cannot uphold a right to do evil.
However, there may also be some consequences from exercising such a right.
Uh, yeah.
In any event, manga is not evil.
How do you know that? It's pornography. It serves no good purpose. It only serves to corrupt morals.
Inanimate objects are neither good nor bad.
That may be true with naturally occurring substances, but that is not true for works of art. This "art" serves only to corrupt morals and has no redeeming value.
(All existing things possess ontological goodness inasmuch as they possess existence. But existence is not part of the essence of any thing, except God.)
Through human reason.
Where do rights come from?
In the real world? The barrel of a gun.
For rights to be unalienable and binding on all of us, they can only come from God.
Nonsense. Following your logic, if gods don't exist, we as human beings have no rights.
How do you know that? It's pornography. It serves no good purpose. It only serves to corrupt morals.
It entertains. That's a good enough purpose. If people let their morals be corrupted by a comic book, they really shouldn't be reading it, now should they?
This "art" serves only to corrupt morals and has no redeeming value.
Irrelevant, even if true.
(All existing things possess ontological goodness inasmuch as they possess existence. But existence is not part of the essence of any thing, except God.)
Nonsensical.
The short answer is yes. "It takes a village" and "It's for the children" are Aquinasfan's core beliefs.
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