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Originally Posted by meeera
...in other words, these books had themes (and/or plots, etc) unsuitable for those individual kids at that time, and the children started reading them and found them to be unsuitable, and were no longer interested? Or were the children irretrievably harmed and their souls put at risk?
I read a whole pile of 'adult' books as a kid. Lots and lots and lots of them. I've not doubt some of the people in this thread would have tried to stop me. I'm very glad that my parents didn't.
And either way, fudgifying certain words would absolutely make no difference to any of this, apart from adding confusion and/or entertainment value, inserting a whole lot of groins into fairytales, and taking Jesus Christ out of the bible and out of religious texts.
Lastly? Where some parents are trying to censor their young adults' reading for bigoted reasons - refusing, to take one very common example, to let them read young adult books with gay storylines - I can and will say loudly and strongly that those parents are making a bad parenting choice. And I make no apologies for that.
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There were nightmares and supremely uncomfortable conversations involved. It doesn't need to be some imaginary 'irretrievable harm' to be uncomfortable and inappropriate for the kid. Unless you're using some very odd definition of 'uninterested' that doesn't fit the situation.
I'll repeat - it depends on the kid. That's why having a broad range of tools is so important, because one kid will be fine with content that will give another kid screaming nightmares. That you were fine is great (although perhaps your parents managed your reading material more than you think - memory is fickle and parents can be very sneaky), but every kid is different, and the tools to identify appropriate content are woefully inadequate to modern information systems. Why are Disney movies so popular? Because parents know they don't need to exhaustively review them before letting their 9 year olds watch the movies.
The parents who disagree with you can and do state their opinion that your choices are bad. That's ok - their kids are not your kids and vice versa. It's perfectly OK for people to make different choices in raising children.
What's NOT ok is the way people are screaming at and denigrating some very mild forms of managing reading material. Shaming parents who need or want a censoring app is entirely unacceptable, just like it would be unacceptable for very conservative parents to try to shame you for your parenting choices.
There are a lot of very angry people trying limit others' choices in this thread and elsewhere wherever this app is brought up, and the culprits are not the social conservatives.