{"id":10072,"date":"2011-10-01T09:48:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T14:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10072"},"modified":"2011-10-01T09:48:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T14:48:43","slug":"nsfw-but-access-for-children-is-mandatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/01\/nsfw-but-access-for-children-is-mandatory\/","title":{"rendered":"NSFW, But Access For Children Is Mandatory"},"content":{"rendered":"

As some of you know, it’s Banned Books Week, which is a facile celebration of librarians and educators of how they, not parents nor citizen-accountable school boards, know what’s best for you and your children. I’ve written before on the subject of the Republic school board and its decision to implement a policy of not providing books that do not meet standards of age-propriety to its students (see Local School Board Makes Decision; Right-Thinking People Disagree, Condescend<\/a> and “Ban” Does Not Mean “The Government Fails To Give It To You”<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I’ve recently read the book<\/a>, as you might know, and I didn’t really see anything textual that would make it age-inappropriate. Sure, the narrator or the character of the narrator character admits to having a large wang. Sure, he has sex with a skin flick starlet in an alien zoo. Hey, who doesn’t? (I mean, when I was in high school, I read The Demu Trilogy<\/em><\/a>, written a couple years after Slaughterhouse Five<\/em><\/a>–what was it with the writers of that era and compulsory sex in alien zoos? Or have I now completed the entirety of the sub-sub genre?)<\/p>\n

However, text aside, Vonnegut adds a couple of line drawings to the text because…. I dunno why he did it. The doodles don’t really add anything to the narrative, I think. Since the book was written to be argued by students by a creative writing professor, I’m sure entire theses and maybe even dissertations have covered them, though.<\/p>\n

And on page 153, we get a line drawing of a heart-shaped pendant bearing the Serenity Prayer between a pair of boobies. If you want to see a picture, here it is<\/a>. I realize that some of you are at work and might get into a spot of fired<\/em> if you clicked that link and looked at the boobies, line-drawn as they are. I’d like to point out you might already be flagged since the content filter analysis has already run across the word boobies several times.<\/p>\n

But isn’t that a pip? If you tacked that picture on your cubicle wall or the inside of your locker door, you would have done your part to make the workplace a hostile environment and made someone uncomfortable. The lawsuits would rain from the heavens or, at the very least, you would get a stern warning from HR. <\/p>\n

Somehow, though, it’s unconscionable for some people to even discuss<\/em> whether teenagers should have publicly sanctioned and funded access to something that I’ve had to mark NSFW on the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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