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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I'm so afraid to hit the "context" button on this, but...
Is it possible that the woman's cash was tapped out? Plane travel can do that to ya.
Is it possible that the book, however innocuous to the author, was considered anathema by the mother? (Maybe she has a bee up her butt about Dr. Seuss, I dunno...) Maybe she didn't want to encourage reading of that particular type of book, and carelessly made a comment that encompassed all books?
Is it possible that the mother was just having a bad day? (Again, traveling in an airport, I can believe that...)
Okay, I got nothin' on the makeup bit...
But bottom line, without a bit more context, the author might have been reading the moment the wrong way... and considering how extreme the mother's viewpoint sounds, I would tend to think he'd missed something significant before or after that conversation.
(Or maybe I'm just feeling overly-sympathetic after watching Scrooged last night...)
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I can understand having a bad day, or disliking subject matter or especially being strapped for cash. What I can't understand is the response "books are stupid". There are a billion different things that could have been said, but the one that was used is "books are stupid". Not "No, THAT book is stupid" or "No, that is not something I want you to be reading at your age" or flat out "No". She was told outright that "books are stupid". This actually breaks my heart for that girl. Good luck kid, you're gonna need it.