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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:31 PM Original message |
San Antonio-area schools consider banning "Handmaid's Tale" |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. Of course they want it banned |
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Zenlitened (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. They want to ban it, because it's coming true. |
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Nikki Stone 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:37 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Exactly |
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Kazak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. But, San Antonio went to Kerry!?! |
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Zenlitened (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:41 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Fundie nutbar bush-lovin' wanna-be fascists can be found... |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. This isn't San Antonio proper |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. Judson ISD is a suburban district. |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:52 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Isn't Judson the ISD for alot of air force kids? |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:58 PM Response to Reply #2 |
23. Yes, it is. I have thought often in the recent past about this book. |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
3. I never thought of it as particularly explicit... |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. explicit in what the GOP is up to |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:42 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. You gotta laugh! All the stuff that teenagers do in back seats of cars |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
19. You haven't studied it sufficiently! |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 03:04 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. Sexual innuendos...LOL |
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lapislzi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 03:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
30. There are a couple of depictions of sex |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 03:52 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. I probably skipped through those parts...n/t |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-22-06 01:47 AM Response to Reply #3 |
43. iirc there's about a paragraph and a half |
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suffragette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
7. "Freedom from" in action. |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
8. "You can't read our strategic plan!" |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. "give me that playbook!" |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
9. Bwahaha. Then the kids go home and watch MTV - |
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QuettaKid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:40 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I have never read the book but heard plenty about it. |
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im10ashus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:45 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Here is a link: |
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Flirtus (500 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:46 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. and a cliff notes link |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
14. Way to go, "some parents!!!!" |
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Nutmegger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
21. Blessed be the womb |
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maveric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
22. First they'll ban the books, then they'll burn them. |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
24. "About A Lower Class Woman Serving As A Birthmother For The Upperclass" |
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Fleshdancer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
25. Good. Maybe the students will now be curious enough to read it |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 06:55 PM Response to Reply #25 |
36. it is time to donate copies to local libraries in that area... |
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Fleshdancer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 07:52 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. oooh, great idea! n/t |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
27. Ah the good ol' American Taliban at it again! |
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Coastie for Truth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
28. Prediction of the Bush Theocracy |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-22-06 01:41 AM Response to Reply #28 |
40. there was -- Robert Duvall was in it. |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
29. It is REQUIRED READING for any progressive. |
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ptolle (423 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
31. fine, but |
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Vektor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
33. The Bible has very sexual references in it too. Do the fundies want to ban |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
34. Aw, crap. It's still happening. |
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Nikki Stone 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 07:57 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. So, we should give the kids "My Pet Goat"? |
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Finder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
35. "The Handmaid's Tale "could become reality. |
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womanofthehills (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-21-06 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
39. Margaret Atwood's books |
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Nutmegger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-22-06 01:46 AM Response to Reply #39 |
41. It's definitely apropos now in this political climate |
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farmboxer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-22-06 01:47 AM Response to Original message |
42. Outlawing books, is something fascists do....... |
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CornField (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-22-06 01:51 AM Response to Original message |
44. 11th graders wouldn't know a damn thing about "sexually graphic" material |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-22-06 03:09 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. well, God approves of violence. "Bodies" -- and touching -- |
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