The NAMBLA society is a bad thing. I shouldn’t have to say that. Having said that, time to comment on the book Gender Queer. This is just one book on the controversial ‘Unbanned for high school kids’ list of books that I find beyond-the-pale problematic.
A book about a 10-year-old boy giving a ** to a ‘real estate guy’ and the ‘real estate guy’ giving a ** to the 10-year-old boy is exactly a NAMBLA situation, esp when there are accompanying graphic depictions. Another example in this book is a boy fantasizing about an older man, and there is an ancient piece of art accompanying his ‘fantasy’ here. Defenders of the book say that it because it is an ancient artifact, it is all good. Last I checked, that kind of thing eventually became a problem for ancient civilizations such as Rome. Sort of would be like showing a painting of a slave in shackles and acting like it is a good thing because it’s ancient art.
This is the content of the book Gender Queer. If you are advocating to get this book unbanned for children, at least be willing to admit that it is pedophilic in content, which is a crime, last I checked.
The defenders say, ‘there are just a few graphic drawings of kids with dildos, kids with grown men in this book. That is an insanely weak argument, which I don’t think I should have to even take the time to dismantle.
I’m quite surprised so many activists are fighting so hard to unban access to these sorts of books for high school children. (I have to clarify here that high school age is still a child- another item to clear up. A child is a child legally until they are 18.)
How is this not porn? Being opposed to a child having access to that book is not opposition to gayness, it is opposition to child porn. The fact that they are cartoons instead of photos does not make them not porn. It is also, as of our current laws, opposition to the normalization of what is still a crime. And in this instance, silence in the face of activists attempting to distribute this to children is complicity, and I’m sure organizations such as the NAMBLA society are quite happy about the silence.
Tales from the Little Shed 