Cultural Zeitgeist
Another moral values voter who needs to shut her claptrap and watch The Divinity Channel or something. And she didn't even read the book! She read an "outline" of it on the Internet. Why is it that everyone in this country is turning into the mother from Carrie?
Speaking of Moms, mine made it through surgery okay. She's dousing herself with morphine as I write and, other than "the hole in my back," she has no complaints.
posted by Jen @ 1:31 PM
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I read Catcher when I was in seventh grade and again in ninth grade, and I obviously turned out OK. I read 1984 in sixth grade (I found it on the athletic field) and every year since then. I think these morals voters should become more familiar with that one siince they're trying to bring it about twenty years too late.
Also, I'm glad your mother is OK. :)
I'm really glad your mom is doing well! That's great!
What a great comment about the mom from Carrie. She was one helluva scary character. I think they need to show that movie a little more often to sort of enlighten us on fundamentalist wackos.
I have to laugh because the dumb mom (who never even had a clue that it was a classic) wants to stop her son from reading it. The nasty spiteful witch in me would snarkily say that her son is probably guilty of everything in that book already. But the diplomatic me won't say it.
One thing that irks me whenever I travel in the US is the insistence on teen abstinence while the mainstream media, through which most of the world judges to be a reflection of the US, says otherwise.
I better stop writing before I get really inflammatory.
Though I like this comment:
"I say we should ban all books in public schools. The mere idea of children reading books sickens me. Public schools in this country need to be brought in line with real family values, and stop this insidious effort to teach our children to think. These are their formative years! We need to protect them, that's our bounden duty as parents, and the school should be assisting in that, NOT encouraging them to learn and grow and think before we say they're ready for it. There's no excuse for the ideas in some of these books. If, when they're legally adults, our children WANT to learn ethics, philosophy, psychology, or any of the other adult issues treated in Catcher in the Rye, they'll have plenty of time for it in college. High school is simply NOT the place for anything of THAT sort, and that teacher should have known it."
Wait -- the mom didn't actually read it, she is reading the Cliffs Notes or some shit?????? She'd never heard of it?
There was a sidebar in that article listing the ten most challenged books. No. 6. was Go Ask Alice, which I would think would convey an antidrug message, if anything (although it didn't stop me from experimenting). No. 10. was one of my favorite books of all time, Bridge to Terabithia. WTF?
I actually never read Bridge to Terabithia. Sounds like I should have...
Oooooh, Bridge to Terabithia! One of my all-time faves. Took place in Western Maryland, you know.
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