Posted on 07/21/2004 4:58:49 AM PDT by snopercod
This sexualization of our children and early introduction to casual violence is a horrible outcome of years of liberalism in this country. We have been paying the price for many years in terms of devaluing human life.
A shocking story! And thanks for taking action on this. Unfortunately, you probably can't expect any action from the public library on this. I suggest checking the book out and destroying it.
In Brevard there will be a reaction. This will be fun.
You lucky there was nothing in there on beastiality or 'safe' rimming. Those topics are covered in the web sites recommended by the American Library Association for teenagers. The ALA believes that parents don't do their job in providing sex education and insists that they step in and help all these oppressed teenagers.
Yeah, I'm all for book burning, too! I say we should just burn ALL potentially offending books.
Porn anime in the kids section? Not cool.
Take a video camera down there and see if you can find some more. Then save the video to disc and provide a copy to the local news. That will get their attention.
Check this out!
Actually, my daughter told me she thought of doing exactly that. But that wouldn't address the problem of the people who selected that book for our children. The head librarian should be called to account for her choice (I am assuming it's a woman, but haven't checked yet.)
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".
And I know a certain liberal (perverted) librarian (Hi Vicki you miserable wretch. Grow a spine witch) who despises children basically anti-family who moved to the Florida panhandle who would defend this type of kiddie porn comic book. She's probably ordering stacks to fill her library cuz GOSH, it's all about free speech.
Hopefully a shark eats her, soon!
1: Bonnie and Clyde
2: Misfire
3: The Return of Gray
4: Goldie versus Misty
5: Bad Trip
6: Bean Bandit
7: Kidnapped
8: Mister V
9: Misty's Run
There could be, I just don't know.
Is there a Central Florida ping list that you know of?
Is this one of the Japanese anime "non-porn" porns? A fellow who was once a missionary to Japan has told me that the Japanese rule is that if the naked figure has no pubic hair, then no matter how wild its activities are it's not counted as porn. And our own SCOTUS has capped that by saying that if it's not a photo of a real person it's not counted as porn either.
Gunsmith Cats is a Japanese manga (graphic novel). It is intended for older audiences, NOT children. Many people instantly assume that just because something is animated or drawn, it is appropriate for children. Your librarian made this same mistake.
I watched the Gunsmith Cats OAV a long time ago. The manga might have been different but it didn't have nudity. The majority of manga and anime are no more different than the American "Superhero" comics which will feature very big chests and very little skin.
In fact I stopped reading American comics when one comic featured a jay-naked Bush sobbing & surrendering at Magneto's feet.
There is an easy solution. Find the books, take them to the Librarian, and say you want to challenge them. All library systems have ways for customers to remove or reclassify items. We do it occationally. I do it occationally without customers asking (But thats part of my job) These items should be in an adult section, at the minimum. Most librarians would like to know that this type of material isn't appropriate, but, can't always look at every book. Its up to the customers to point things out to them. The selectors order hundreds of items at a time, they can't read every book.
As for stealing the book or checking it out and destroying it, that will get your privilages removed. Its also sending a VERY bad message to children that its ok to steal. Why steal or damage the item when the library has a method of removing the item in place?
My apologies--I didn't see the part about the Lewinsky act--that is definitely NOT "normal" for mainstream manga. That is indeed disgusting...
We have graphic novels in the library where I work and they all go to adult non-fiction just to be on the safe side. We are just beginning to add these to our collection and are trying to keep on the lighter side of the genre - like Superman, Batman, and Justice League.
This needs to be called to the attention of the library director. It could have been an honest mistake. A lot of libraries have standing order plans and just get whatever the publishers think are the popular titles. We have a plan like that but I always check the graphic novels before we put them out because like you said too many people think they are all for kids because it's a comic.
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