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Originally Posted by Whitley
Can we stick to the topic. The book I saw was Damsel, with descriptive rape, pedophilia, bestiality, animal rape (?) etc.. Are you against having that available in grade school libraries?
I notice in your responses there tends to be a certain degree of anger, nastiness, name calling. Are you familiar with the facial recognition program that can predict if a person is right or left wing. It seems the more relaxed, smiling, happy faces are right wing. This was in the Danish Journal Science Reports.
Another study that I read in Psychology Today showed that Conservative Politicians were "more beautiful". That would be in 2018 or 2019. We should all relax and enjoy that we are fortunate enough to live in TV. Name calling does not really serve a purpose.
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It's classified as a YA book. I think it shouldn't be. I think if I saw that in an elementary school library I'd have a word with the librarian just on that one aspect alone, because YA books don't belong in elementary schools in the first place.
I read an actual librarian's review, and it sounds like it shouldn't even be a YA book, though it might be an interesting type of book for 12th graders or college students who are studying feminist literature.
Rather than demand that the school SYSTEM remove the book from all libraries, I'd probably just have a talk with the librarian and point it out to them. Since that's their job - to determine what should or shouldn't be in their library.
I did exactly that when a similar book (based on the same theme in fact) showed up in the kids' section. It was a series, a 3 or 4 book series of the Sleeping Beauty story - by A.N. Roquelaure, also known as Ann Rice. It's a BDSM series that shouldn't be anywhere near minor children. But the librarian had no idea that it was NOT the Sleeping Beauty story she thought it was - until I pointed it out to her. She immediately removed it from the kids' section and stuck it in the office where I'm sure she spent some time deciding what to do about it.