Posted on 10/24/2023 12:24:59 PM PDT by TBP
During the public comment section of a recent school board meeting, a Florida mother attempted to share a sexually explicit image featured in a school library book, but she was promptly interrupted, the New York Post reported.
Julie Gebhards, a Tampa resident, addressed the Hillsborough County school board, hoping to bring attention to an inappropriate graphic novel in the district’s libraries.
Gebhards explained that “Blankets” by Craig Thompson, which features sexually explicit images and passages, was approved unanimously by Plant City High School’s seven-person panel, despite being challenged by parents.
“This is in children’s libraries here in Hillsborough County,” she said. “Approved by that committee unanimously.”
According to the author’s website, the book is a “poignant graphic memoir” about “a young man coming of age.”
Before reading the graphic novel to the school board, Gebhards advised parents in the audience to remove their children from the room, warning that the content would be inappropriate.
“The book also contains crass talk like this: ‘Church camp is the best place to score p***y,’” she stated. “Also: ‘Did you feel up her t*****s?’ It has images of masturbation, naked boys peeing on each other, and sexual assault of a child. … I imagine we’re all uncomfortable now.”
Gebhards also brought in an oversized image from the graphic novel that depicted a young couple in bed together with the female’s breast exposed. After only a few seconds of holding up the image for board members to view, a police officer approached Gebhards, grabbed the display from her hands, folded it, and placed it on the ground.
Gebhards also noted that the book references “erections, breast fondling, biting, tasting, oral copulation, stripping off clothes in heated passion,” and included “22 images of the aroused couple, 10 images of her naked breasts.”
The outraged mother called the graphic novel “shameful, base, and degrading.”
After Gebhards’ two minutes were up, board chair Nadia Combs attempted to quickly move to the next speaker while noting that “no one is allowed to bring displays.”
Before leaving the podium, Gebhards added, “This is in a library book in your classrooms.”
Gebhards spoke at a previous school board meeting, encouraging members and other community members not to fall for the “book banning narrative,” Florida’s Voice reported.
“Lets be clear. It’s intellectually dishonest to suggest that parents are banning books,” she stated. “Labeling parents' attempts to protect their children from the graphically sexually explicit content that I’ve read to you, again and again, at these board meetings, labeling this as ‘book banning’ may be politically acceptable, but again, it’s intellectually dishonest to do so.”
What stupid cowards.
Banning books.
It would be a shame if someone wrote a graphic novel of liberals being raped, tortured, and vivisected and said graphic novel ended up in libraries all over the country.
Yes, what a shame it would be. Especially if the left attempted to ban it.
Indeed.
This is when the school board members apologize and say “I had no idea! I am so sorry! Of course it will be removed!”
The fact that they are not saying that at all just shows that the school board members are groomers and would-be child molesters. I know what ought to happen to people who facilitate sex crimes against children.
In the words of Kevin Alfred Strom: “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
In public libraries.
Go to your public library and ask for "Irreversible Damage" by Abigail Shrier.
See if they have it or are willing to get it for you.
I thought Meatball was supposed to take care of that crap?
If they are placed under citizens arrest, and even blink, they are resisting arrest and there is result. Just based on J6 precedent.
Post the names of the school board and get a few other parents and get a lawyer to sue the school, board and each member for child abuse.
Also, contact Ashley Moody, Fla A.G.
It’s intellectually and morally dishonest to ban a person from showing a pornagraphic item in adult public forum, yet applaud same in children’s school libraries.
No profanity, pornography or obscenity will be permitted during public comment, even if you are quoting a Board member or a book in your elementary school library.
If it’s not appropriate for school board meetings then why is it is the school libraries or curriculum?
> No profanity, pornography or obscenity will be permitted during public comment, even if you are quoting a Board member or a book in your elementary school library.
imho that rule needs to be rescinded. if you can’t talk about it, you can’t acknowledge its existence. if you can’t acknowledge its existence, you can’t control it. if you can’t control it, it’s out of control. which is more important, asserting control over policy, or offending board members’ sensibilities and decorum? woke, power tripping board members should be voted out.
They played right into her hands. They couldn’t demonstrate their hypocrisy any better than that!
Doesn’t Florida law require removal of the book from school libraries if the book can’t be presented at a school board meeting? I’m pretty sure it does.
Well said.
Sounds like a heterosexual porn book for kids… in today’s world, relatively wholesome stuff!
And this was a Catholic H.S.
Went something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUZk3mzwxNk. Paradise by the Dashboard Light
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