Boy guys, can it get any worse. There is no regard for life anymore. Kudos to this Mom, she's got guts to stand her ground in this liberal State of Oregon.
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index ...unny_suic.html
Oregon mom won't return 'Bunny Suicide' book
by The Associated Press
Monday October 20, 2008, 5:54 AM
One way or another, a Halsey woman promises to keep a popular cartoon book out of the Central Linn High School library.
Taffey Anderson says "The Book of Bunny Suicides" is not appropriate for anyone, but especially children. She inspected the book her 13-year-old son checked out of the library, and what she saw convinced her to never return it.
The 2003 book by British author Andy Riley is a collection of cartoons showing a rabbit attempting to end his life in bizarre ways. Anderson's son told her he checked it out because his friends said it was funny.
"It is a comic book, but that's not funny. Not at all," Anderson told the Albany Democrat-Herald newspaper. "I don't care if your kid is 16, 17, 18. It's wrong."
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Ohshit, I guess I better tell my manager that we can't sell the 2009 Bunny Suicides calendar.
Screw you. It's funny to me; just because our senses of humour don't coincide doesn't mean that you have the right to try to deprive me of something harmlessly amusing.
Thou shalt not steal...unless it's something that you deem inapropriate, then it's just censorship for jeebus.
Thou shalt not kil...AW FUCK IT!
I kind of agree with her, that's not really appropriate for a school library. Still, stealing it is not the best response. Maybe talk to your children about why suicide isn't funny, or discuss your concerns with the school?
I know some people find it funny, but it doesn't seem like it's appropriate for a school. Just my opinion.
No. Suicide is serious when humans are considering it, are attempting it, or succeed.
Cartoon bunnies offing themselves IS funny.
If your child or you don't find it funny, don't open the damn book! And stop stealing from the library!!
Some other parents might find it hilarious. Decide what you want for your kid, but doing it for other peoples' kids is arrogance at its finest. Oh, yeah, and I think the book is screamingly funny. I didn't know there were calendars, and thanks to this 21st century Puritan, now I do!
Ah, people without senses of humor.
Come on, lady, you have to have at least liked the one with Darth Vader!
Because we all know that a cartoon about a bunny trying to off himself is terrible but a book, with a story of a guy willing to kill his child to make some blood god happy, is something everyone should have.
You know, it's a funny thing... if it wasn't for morons and zealots, we wouldn't need gallows humor in the first place. So really all she's doing is making sure that someone's going to have a deep desire to see bunnies off themselves.
The school can legally hold her kid's diploma if the book is not bought or paid for. I wonder if she cares enough about this comic to potentially ruin her son's life over it. If I was her son, I wouldn't take that chance. I would pay for the damn thing myself.
What would happen if I checked out the Bible from the school library and thought it was too violent for high schoolers? I think we all know the answer to that. Hypocrites piss me off.
Guess I'll go steal a copy of the Bible from my university's library then, since it's infinitely more offensive and unfunny than Bunny Suicides could ever hope to be.
Not the biggest fan of Bunny Suicides (it's not really my thing) but really now. This woman does need to cool down, since a school library does need an entertainment section and attempting to shelter teenagers from specific kinds of entertainment will never, ever work. It'll have the reverse effect if anything.
So your solution is to steal the book? Congratulations, I guess.
Seriously, I can understand why someone might think it's inappropriate for something like that to be in a school library (though, frankly, I really don't give a shit one way or another, it's just a fucking book), but somehow I don't think that refusing to give back the school's property is the best way to teach children about morality.
I would seriously like to see how the Raptards would react if I were to steal a bible from a high school library, on the grounds that it's too violent for children (seeing as it's much, much worse than any "Bunny Suicide" book, as lame as that book was).
As funny as the book might be, I kind of have to admit that putting a book that makes fun of suicide in a high school library crosses over the tastelessness line a bit much for my liking. But stealing the book isn't the proper way to deal with such things. Complain to the principal. Talk to your kids about it. Hell, talk to other people's kids about it. But just taking the book away is imposing your own morals on other people, and that's no good. Not to mention it's, you know, illegal.
Isn't it illegal to refuse to return a book to the library?
Yup, apart from theft, it might even be "embezzlement of state property" ;)
Uh, lady, if the school is like mine, they are going to withhold your kid's diploma. At least pay up for it or your child is not going to graduate.
Oh come on guys, you should at least be able to understand that some people who have dealt personally with suicide could find it very distressing. I put it on about the same ranking as a book with racist and sexist jokes, being that while censorship of it should not be allowed, I can understand people who want to.
It is incredibly patronising for this mombie to assume that 16-18 year-olds cannot make their own minds up about what they want to read, and suggesting they don't have a sense of humor.
This attitude: "I am justified in [X illegal activity] because I'm doing it for the CHYLDRUN!" is really fucking annoying, not just because it's whiny and patronising, but because it's the height of narcissism and entitlement. She thinks her precious little snowflakes can't think for themselves, she finds the book offensive, so everyone else must conform to her standards, because she's obviously right.
Blech. Just admit it, woman. It's not about the children, it's about YOU.
Geeze. Back in my day (damn, I'm starting to sound old !) it was 101 Uses for a Dead Cat . There's always going to be a market for dark/gallows humour.
What I'd like to see is a Happy Bunny/Bunny Suicides cross-over.
"It is a comic book, but that's not funny. Not at all,"
Watchmen and V for Vendetta (for example) are also "comic books" and they aren't funny, either. Bone can be pretty funny at times ("Stupid, stupid rat creatures!"), and I'm waiting for the Beanworld collections to arrive. Maybe not so funny, but quite surreal!
I have both Bunny Suicide books, and they're hilarious! As someone who has been suicidal, I got a kick out of 'em, and a much-needed laugh. This cunt needs to get her head out of her ass and grow a sense of humor!
I bought it for my little sister after I found out she was depressed and suicidal. She laughed so much she said her sides hurt (a joy she said she hadn't had in a very long time). She took some meds and has been fine for quite a while now. She still loves flipping through the suicidal bunnies.
I too was suicdal once and I loved the book. A friend of mine says suicide is just tacky and I've grown to agree with him. This book shows the utter stupidity of it and proves what George Carlin was right, "Anything can be funny."
I remember when I first found that book. Coincidentally enough, it happened to be when I was going through my RABID, meat-is-murder, put-animals-before-humans phase. Just so you know, I'm STILL pretty insanely animal-rights, still a vegetarian, still against cosmetic testing....just not as "loud" and militant as I was then about it.
Even then, though, I ALWAYS found the book hilarious and fun, because even then I saw it as nothing more than silly little doodles showing ridiculous situations. When people would be like "I thought you loved animals!" I'd just be like "It's just a cartoon."
While the book isn't my personal thing, who am I to judge that no one else should be reading it. Censorship of unpleasant literature gives way to censorship of seditious literature, or worse. We've seen it echo throughout history; The destruction of libraries and entire arms of human knowledge often follows.
At the risk of a Godwin, or other overblown comparisons, Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia, North Korea, and similar regimes thrive on the suppression of literature contrary to their position. It is a very dangerous, very slippery slope to be on.
No regard for life. Ironic hearing that on, of all things, Rapture Ready. And you have no right preventing others from reading it or living as they see fit even if they do things you do not approve of
Fine, but you owe them the price of a new book. You have the right to not read it, but other people have rights too. I know, that's hard for a fundie to understand, but take it one word at a time.
Other
People
Have
Rights
Too.
And one of their rights is the right to disagree with you.
Bet anything this mom has, at least once, e8ther complained about 'activist judges' trying to legislate a progressive agenda from the bench, or nodded her head when someone made that claim.
And here, she doesn't even have that much authority to abypuse....
Confused?
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