Dang-it, my plan to post a photo description of my state of mind has already failed. I don’t have an in-betweener pic to use. Oh sure, I could probably find or Photoshop one, but I’m too lazy. Maybe I should look for a pic of me with my eyes half open, drool collecting in my chin dent, watching a Law & Order marathon. That could be my “too lazy” indicator. It’d have to be a good pic, though, because I think I’d be using it a LOT.
Reading descriptions of these banned books, I can certainly see why some parents find them unsuitable for children. I mean, the parents who want to raise their kids in an environment of racism and prejudice are certainly going to find pa-lenty to disagree with in a book like To Kill a Mockingbird. Powells’ introduction to the list mentions some of the complaints people have had about banned books over the years:
- “references to stuffing and snapping bras”
- “being ‘happily nonphallocentric’”
- “presenting homosexuality in a non-judgmental context”
Like many people who object to censorship, I don’t want decisions made for me about what books I should or should not be able to read. Join me this week in reading one of these naughty, naughty books, won’t you? Just promise me you won’t learn anything from it. That’d be silly. 
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