Comments on: In Which We Take The Other Side https://booksquare.com/in-which-we-take-the-other-side/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=in-which-we-take-the-other-side Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Tue, 14 Dec 2004 05:52:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: booksquare https://booksquare.com/in-which-we-take-the-other-side/#comment-8532 Tue, 14 Dec 2004 05:52:50 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2004/12/13/848/#comment-8532 Back in the day, when Tipper Gore was upset about her daughters hearing racy songs on a Prince album, I wondered, how could she not know what Prince is about? It wasn’t like he was Mr. Family Friendly. I realize it’s impossible to police every input into your kid’s brain, but there’s no excuse for not doing your homework. At least Tipper had the excuse of not having the Internet (yes, because her husband hadn’t invented it yet…).

I’ve been reading books with strong language longer than the mother realizes. I like to think I turned out okay. Weird, but okay. Personally, I think it would be cool if the parent had a frank talk with the kid about the language being used and why. This may be why I have cats…they pretend to be interested in everything I say!

]]> By: Susan Gable https://booksquare.com/in-which-we-take-the-other-side/#comment-8449 Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:03:06 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2004/12/13/848/#comment-8449 Okay, this is just nuts. I’m with you, Booksquare. I don’t like when WalMart has so much power over books that they can sort of decide how books get edited, but this is ridiculous. WalMart happens to be the one place where you can buy “cleaned up” CD’s for your preteens. I know. My kid has taste for some of the bands that do more swearing than is necessary – and WalMart offers cleaned up versions of their stuff – and I happen to appreciate that as a parent. So this mother is a nutcase. Give me a break. Just because WalMart SOLD IT doesn’t mean she had to buy it.

I sure hope this doesn’t lead to even stronger censuring by WalMart, because this is NOT their fault at all.

Some people (in fact, our society as a whole) are just lawsuit happy. These kinds of stupid, frivilous lawsuits need to be just tossed out of court.

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