Sarah Palin doesn't want your kids to read books about gay penguins or people who enjoy the sex. Libraries all over the country have secretly banned the Harry Potter series for "promoting witchcraft" (sorry, it took me a minute to type that out because I was laughing so hard.) Even The Catcher In The Rye is kept off high school curricula for taking the Man In The Sky's name in vain.
So, it should come as no surprise that we now have people banning and actually rewriting the goddamn dictionary to take out certain words.
STOP.
Before you read the rest of this-- guess which one of these four words or terms was banned by these yokels. Was it the entry for...
a) Guido
b) cock
c) ass
d) oral sex
or
e) dick?
Here's your answer... brace yourselves, thinking people:
A school in southwestern California has pulled some dictionaries from classroom shelves after parents complained their grade-school children were learning about sexual words, reportedly including the term "oral sex."
The decision was the result of "a growing concern among the parents" that some words contained in the dictionary were not "age-appropriate..."
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Comments ( 8 )
No wonder teen pregnancy is on the rise for the first time in a decade. Kids are always gonna fool around - you might as well let them know what they're doing and how to do it safely.
You Yanks slay me. Why not just burn all the books? No one is going to stop it.
Yeah, you're a couple of days behind... the "committee" that was reviewing this basically determined that it had no merit and put the books back (although with a weird thing where parents had to sign a permission slip for their kids to use the grown up dictionary). Oddly enough, the parents that caused the issue in the first place didn't even show up for the hearing.
What the fuck? How can the school board do this. They should have just been like, "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME! GET OUT OF MY OFFICE" when a parent raised that complaint.
Back in the Jurassic, we always used Webster's Unabridged to find out what those words meant! They're flouting history here!
"Guido" is in the dictionary? That's so cool!
Tom Knee: I made that up... but it could be in there. Anyone with a paper dictionary wanna look it up for us?
As Mark Twain once wrote,"in the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards." I've covered a lot of school board meetings for local newspapers, the job does tend to draw... a certain type of mind.
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