| Monday, July 12, 2004 |
 | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank. Modern Library. Challenged in Wise County, Va. (1982) due to "sexually offensive" passages. Four members of the Alabama State Textbook Committee (1983) called for the rejection of this book because it is a "real downer."
Oh my sweet lord. This is so very. very bad. How on Earth can they possibly live with themselves? I want to smack every single one of those people. I mean, four people. Four people. Not four people even wanted to ban the Diary of Anne Frank, but four people actually complained that it was "a real downer".
I want to squeeze them. Squeeze them in the head.
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A Doll's House. Henrik Ibsen. Penguin. Four members of the Alabama State Textbook Committe (1983)--presumably the same who objected to The Diary of Anne Frank --called for the rejection of this work because it propagates feminist views.
If there were any doubt in your mind of the due fate of those four.
I have dreams that the Alabama State Textbook Committee is eight thousand strong, a great phalanx of concerned parents, and that these four are a quailing bunch who cower as the rest chorus "More coming-out stories! More Toni Morrison! More feminism!"
But I fear I may be tripping.
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