Are you really equating reading about trauma with trauma? They are not the same. *NM*
lord-of-shadow Send a noteboard - 09/06/2011 07:10:34 PM
This WSJ article has kicked up a huge fuss on the internet - YA is "too dark".
05/06/2011 03:46:50 PM
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There's only one thing about this literature that disturbs me
05/06/2011 05:39:35 PM
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This is a thought out, finely articulated response.
05/06/2011 06:47:13 PM
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If it were just vampires that would be just fine
05/06/2011 08:03:02 PM
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People have been complaining about this since the novel was invented
05/06/2011 11:02:58 PM
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Apparently the article did paint far too bleak a picture,
06/06/2011 12:39:46 PM
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Why waste time with "YA literature" at all?
06/06/2011 02:14:03 PM
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Re: Why waste time with "YA literature" at all?
06/06/2011 02:28:42 PM
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I think that's a post factum justification, not a reason.
06/06/2011 05:08:09 PM
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Maybe. It's hard to separate, I think.
07/06/2011 01:06:29 PM
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One certainly has to choose the real literature to present, certainly.
07/06/2011 02:27:00 PM
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Very good post.
06/06/2011 08:52:22 PM
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You seem to be the only one who thinks so.
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07/06/2011 01:17:18 AM
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I don't think it's a bad post... I just think that the "despair" is a teen fad, and not as bad as
07/06/2011 03:19:03 AM
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Suicide rates have gone up significantly
07/06/2011 02:42:55 PM
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Heh.
08/06/2011 07:24:44 PM
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you are having trouble finding cultural ideas that turned bad?
08/06/2011 11:56:23 PM
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The classic problem of the overprotective parent- underestimating your kids
09/06/2011 05:33:54 AM
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the classic problem of people who have no idea what they are talking about
09/06/2011 04:16:25 PM
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Are you really equating reading about trauma with trauma? They are not the same. *NM*
09/06/2011 07:10:34 PM
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I'm sure the percentage of good books must be higher than they make it sound,
05/06/2011 05:53:21 PM
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I'd say books offer a fundamentally different experience than movies
05/06/2011 06:53:55 PM
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I'm not sure that makes a difference here.
06/06/2011 04:47:05 AM
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Because thinking makes you LESS susceptible to these things you're afraid of
06/06/2011 05:27:26 PM
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I don't completely agree with that.
06/06/2011 07:26:21 PM
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I feel like I just can't relate to parents determined to shelter their kids from everything
06/06/2011 10:21:44 PM
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To think the content described is acceptable, when they ban "Huck Finn" for using 'nigger'.
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05/06/2011 09:45:15 PM
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CNN: "On a website, a person named 'Macharius' used the 'N-word'".
06/06/2011 01:58:35 AM
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Parents have the right and resonsibility to know what their children are reading
06/06/2011 03:41:22 AM
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Re: Parents have the right and resonsibility to know what their children are reading
06/06/2011 12:40:24 PM
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I'd argue if you're old enough to be interested in the subject matter, you're old enough to read it
06/06/2011 05:32:33 PM
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Depends on the subject matter.
07/06/2011 01:07:57 PM
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Basically? Yes.
07/06/2011 06:42:04 PM
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why do think there is value in letting them read whatever they want?
07/06/2011 06:52:20 PM
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Don't be an idiot.
09/06/2011 05:25:26 AM
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Well, I wrote a long piece related to this
06/06/2011 05:21:06 AM
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Great post. She really tries to muddy the waters relating to censorship and parenting.
06/06/2011 08:05:21 AM
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She kind of conflates some issues that are quite different, if you ask me.
06/06/2011 08:47:33 PM
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Wait wait wait wait wait... NYT reviewed Game of Thrones? I must read this
07/06/2011 03:20:08 AM
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Having now read one of the books mentioned, Cheryl Rainfield's Scars...
08/06/2011 02:18:23 AM
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