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Proponents of book banning would crack me up if it weren't so tragic. Everyone's hopping around on their tiptoes like their rear end is one fire because of a technical term for a perfectly normal body part that's present on approximately 50% of our population. These things don't go well when people make decisions on gut feeling rather than logic. There are worse ways for kids to be educated than through books. The worst is when they aren't armed with the information at all. At what point are kids encouraged to learn about the wide spectrum of ideologies and ideas that exist so they can figure out their own? Ah wait, I guess they often never are.
Alicat is right about kids being sexualized at younger ages, but who's doing that to who? I see girls who are too young to even pick out their own clothes running around in sweatpants with "princess" written on the butt. I see moms putting makeup on their kids on the commuter train in the morning. I could go on and on. I would bet a shiny nickel that some of those same parents (there are so many) would be up in arms about "scrotum". Where are our priorities here? And what about that pesky First Amendment?
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