Words cannot express how fucking vile this.

[Weezer]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/28/AR2010012804001.html?g=0

I can't even respond to this. This is something so stupid and immature, I just...fuck. What the fuck.

[Invincible Summer]

Well, the article doesn't make it seem vile, but it's sure ignorant.

[Weezer]

Well, the article doesn't make it seem vile, but it's sure ignorant.

Ignorance is vile.

[blake 3:17]

Insane. You heard about the school that banned the fucking dictionary because it had a definition for 'oral sex'?

[Revy]

I think that Anne Frank expresses doubts about Zionism as well. At least that was the impression I got when I read it a long time ago. She said she didn't support Zionism.

[Dr Mindbender]

i wish i could say i was surprised, but this is coming from the same country where only recently a minister refused to marry a mixed race couple because of their ethnicity.

[Dooga Aetrus Blackrazor]

I find it absolutely hilarious that the same parents who try to ban these things give their children Ipods and Iphones that can freely search the Internet whenever a connection is available. Why do people think they can shelter their kids? Show a five year old hardcore pornography for all I care. Unless there is scientific evidence to believe exposure to certain things actually harms children, I don't see what the problem is.

[btpound]

I think hardcore pornography definitely harms them.

[The Red Next Door]

The power of sense compels you, you stupid jesus freak *****:D. Seriously this is fucking stupid, Some parents don't need to have children. If they gonna censor them from the world.

[Weezer]

I think hardcore pornography definitely harms them.

Prove it.

[Dr Mindbender]

I think hardcore pornography definitely harms them.

I think that depends how you define hardcore pornography. Material that gives them unrealistic perceptions of sex, sure. Though i dont really buy this idea that they must be protected from all illustrations of penetrative sex otherwise you might as well just rip out the sex education section from their biology textbooks.

[DecDoom]

They should just ban books from school entirely.

Actually, why stop there? They should ban anything educational! Then we wouldn't have to do anything except sit in a room and recite bible verses.

[Chambered Word]

Prove it.

I for one would have thoroughly enjoyed watching porn when I was 5.

[Il Medico]

I for one would have thoroughly enjoyed watching porn when I was 5.
I watch my first porno when I was 9. I wasn't harmed by it at all. If anything, it helped me mature faster when it came to the topic.

[Devrim]

To be honest I can think of much more vile things that happen everyday that are considerably more vile than a change in a school curriculum, for example this:


Turkish girl, 16, buried alive for talking to boys

Death reopens debate over 'honour' killings in Turkey, which account for half of all the country's murders



Turkish police have recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl they say was buried alive by relatives in an "honour" killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys.
The girl, who has been identified only by the initials MM, was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre hole dug under a chicken pen outside her home in Kahta, in the south-eastern province of Adiyaman.
Police made the discovery in December after a tip-off from an informant, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on its website.
The girl had previously been reported missing.
The informant told the police she had been killed following a family "council" meeting.
Her father and grandfather are said to have been arrested and held in custody pending trial. It is unclear whether they have been charged. The girl's mother was arrested but was later released.
Media reports said the father had told relatives he was unhappy that his daughter – one of nine children – had male friends. The grandfather is said to have beaten her for having relations with the opposite sex.
A postmortem examination revealed large amounts of soil in her lungs and stomach, indicating that she had been alive and conscious while being buried. Her body showed no signs of bruising.
The discovery will reopen the emotive debate in Turkey (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/turkey) about "honour" killings, which are particularly prevalent in the impoverished south-east.
Official figures have indicated that more than 200 such killings take place each year, accounting for around half of all murders in Turkey.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/04/girl-buried-alive-turkey

Get a sense of perspective.

Devrim

[Rousedruminations]

It does seem pretty ignorant, a disparity in society and a dishonorable inequality perhaps. The article about the Turkish girl seems absolutely abhorrent - its conservatism and traditionalism at its worst :blink::(

[Ironwill]

Well it is not that supprising sadly.....

[Jazzratt]

It's ignorant and a bit fucked, but describing it as "vile" means you'll soon run out of adjectives to describe things even more abhorrent.

On the porn/age thing: the censorship of erotic works in comparison to violent works is a biazarre double standard. Guns, knives & killing become a part of children's lives much earlier than sexuality and love. Even as we get older it's easier to get away with showing more explicit violence to children than it is to expose them to any kind of sexuality, yet it is completely unquestioned that this exposure to violence is not a truly negative thing. Why, then, is sex - largely a positive thing - considered a harmful thing for children to view?

[piet11111]

I would not be surprised if kids can get guns easier then condoms in america.

[Dimentio]

This ambivalence against sex and pornography is probably a heritage from Abrahamitic religions. I also think a huge part of the fact that sex is seen as something "impure" has to do with the fact that most societies which have established themselves throughout human history have been patriarchal - i.e, the males have been routinely privileging themselves. Moreover, while a woman always could rely that her offspring is hers, a man in a pre-modern society couldn't rely on that. Hence that fixation of control on female sexuality.

In Tibet, there's an interesting case of reverse polygamy, where each female has several husbands. I have at least heard - though I cannot swear on it - that it actually was a quite harmonious society.

[Nwoye]

I would not be surprised if kids can get guns easier then condoms in america.
not quite.

[Agnapostate]

Reminds me of Tom Coburn's complaints about Schindler's List airing on NBC.

[Il Medico]

not quite.
Indeed. Anyone with 3 quarters and a BP gas station near by can get them. Though it isn't particularly hard to get a gun around here either, but you'll need more than three quarters.

[Dr Mindbender]

In Tibet, there's an interesting case of reverse polygamy, where each female has several husbands. I have at least heard - though I cannot swear on it - that it actually was a quite harmonious society.

Eh, call me old fashioned, but that wouldnt be for me.

Not that i long for conventional polygamy, either.

[Dimentio]

Eh, call me old fashioned, but that wouldnt be for me.

Not that i long for conventional polygamy, either.

Hahaha :lol:

That people should have so many problems separating descriptive anecdotes from opinions!

[Robocommie]

I don't necessarily support this, but I do want to point out in defense of poor Anne (who can't say a thing about it) that I can't personally think of a bigger nightmare for a teenager than to have all the dirty laundry she wrote in her diary aired to the world.

Like, FAMOUSLY aired to the world. ;)

[Robocommie]

I would not be surprised if kids can get guns easier then condoms in america.

Jesus man, it's not that damn bad here.

[Agnapostate]

http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/anne-franks-diary-will-remain-in-school-after-complaint-about-sexual-content/

[Wolf Larson]

I think hardcore pornography definitely harms them.

I say the real predators can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCT7h-jwCWA

[Die Rote Fahne]

Americans...*sigh*

[Across The Street]

From article: "One record dating to 1983 from an Alabama textbook committee said the book was "a real downer" and called for its rejection from schools."

Damn.

[Jazzratt]

Americans...*sigh*

HURR HURR IGNORANT YANKS! Stop contributing to the inane and demonstrably false narrative that Americans (in the sense, presumably, of those from the US lest you want to condemn yourself whilst you're painting with such a massive brush) are somehow uniquely ignorant. At the very least it's granting far too much leniency to everyone else.