I once came home unexpectedly to find my 16-year old son at the computer, deeply engrossed in watching...
... women's downhill skiing at the Winter Paralympics. But if it'd been porn we'd have talked about it. I'd have made sure he understood it's natural to think about sex, but that porn shouldn't be taken as an instruction manual or a realistic portrayal of what real people are into. There would also have been instructions on computer safety.
Of course, I could take that view because I don't see sex as inherently bad and sinful. And my greatest fear around LGBTQIA+ issues was, that he might be some flavour of GBT and be scared to tell me.
When I was a kid in the 1950s, my mother never monitored anything I read, much to the horror of our conservative relatives. Her philosophy was, if it was too ‘sophisticated’, or too ‘sexy’, or too whatever, I wouldn’t have a clue what they were talking about anyway, which was true.
One thing that people miss about The Music Man is that Winthrop is Marian's son, not her brother and that this is the cause of the falling out between her father and Old Miser Madison.
A librarian I know was telling me about efforts by parents to put parental controls on the library computers. The library refused, because they don't censor what information is available to patrons. The best they would do was to move the magazines to next to the computers so the parents could sit and read while they monitored their children's internet access, which the library insisted was the parent's responsibility not the library's.
If you remember "It's A Wonderful Life," when Donna Reed didn't get any of that good Jimmy Stewart cock, she became a librarian. Librarian and teacher seemed to be the only respectable positions for women who didn't get schtupped on a regular basis by a manly man.
I once came home unexpectedly to find my 16-year old son at the computer, deeply engrossed in watching...
... women's downhill skiing at the Winter Paralympics. But if it'd been porn we'd have talked about it. I'd have made sure he understood it's natural to think about sex, but that porn shouldn't be taken as an instruction manual or a realistic portrayal of what real people are into. There would also have been instructions on computer safety.
Of course, I could take that view because I don't see sex as inherently bad and sinful. And my greatest fear around LGBTQIA+ issues was, that he might be some flavour of GBT and be scared to tell me.
Fuck all these sexphobes in the ear.
Let me guess, it from that same church that did the Christianized version of Hamilton, isn’t it? 😉
So long as we keep making them 😛 We may have a small book-hoarding problem….
No argument there, though they were surprisingly quiet.
When I was a kid in the 1950s, my mother never monitored anything I read, much to the horror of our conservative relatives. Her philosophy was, if it was too ‘sophisticated’, or too ‘sexy’, or too whatever, I wouldn’t have a clue what they were talking about anyway, which was true.
One thing that people miss about The Music Man is that Winthrop is Marian's son, not her brother and that this is the cause of the falling out between her father and Old Miser Madison.
It's the bi-ble, not the straight-ble😵
In the movie at least, the mother specifically refers to Winthrop as Marian's brother.
She's lying. Such deceptions are common and were even more common back then. The was the family situation of both Ted Bundy and Karl Rove.
wait, the librarian is a serial killer? /s
It's like cultural street cred among a certain set.
In reponse, we should have the Michigan landfill where the Republicans put all of Detroit's books when they shut down the library.
I never knew that in the play, the townspeople read the books! That's worth a $25 donation right there! Wish it could be more.
A librarian I know was telling me about efforts by parents to put parental controls on the library computers. The library refused, because they don't censor what information is available to patrons. The best they would do was to move the magazines to next to the computers so the parents could sit and read while they monitored their children's internet access, which the library insisted was the parent's responsibility not the library's.
If you remember "It's A Wonderful Life," when Donna Reed didn't get any of that good Jimmy Stewart cock, she became a librarian. Librarian and teacher seemed to be the only respectable positions for women who didn't get schtupped on a regular basis by a manly man.
Stephen Colbert once danced with the Rockettes, and he kicked as high as they did.