HOLY SHIT! Teens read books! With curse words in them!
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[QUOTE=meppers;36008758]actually i always wondered why books never had a rating system[/QUOTE]
simple: while movies and video games are developed by large teams that do not all individually stand by their product as a piece of art to defend against all odds, books (particularly fiction) are often written by one person who could have themself and their work stigmatized by its assigned rating.
[quote]“If they were made into movies, they would easily be rated R, and parents have no clue.”[/quote]
No, they'd be rated PG-13. Looks like movies are another thing she's ignorant about and needs to look into. There are plenty of PG-13 movies that say "fuck".
I think the most surprising thing is that teens are actually reading. Just remove the "With curse words in them!" from the title and it will be REAL news.
I just finished reading "The Things they carried", and It has a shit ton of curse words in it. :v:
Found books in my school library that graphically described multiple BDSM scenes that were multiple pages long each. I have never laughed so hard in my life.
better blame curse words for your children's horrible behavior!
good thing i don't read books
One book i had read had multiple soft core sex scenes in it with cursing and killing ect. And it was in the high school library.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;36009680]No, they'd be rated PG-13. Looks like movies are another thing she's ignorant about and needs to look into. There are plenty of PG-13 movies that say "fuck".[/QUOTE]
Too be honest, I've very rarely seen many movies, R or otherwise, where "fuck" was used often.
I'll always remember X-Men: First Class, though
"Hello, my name is Charles Exavi-"
Wolverine: "Fuck off."
Think these people have forgotten the explosive popularity of the internet in the last year..
Swearing in anything else is irrelevant
I used the fact that the word "fuck" came up a bunch in [I]The Catcher in the Rye[/I] as an excuse to swear in English class.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;36010146]I used the fact that the word "fuck" came up a bunch in [I]The Catcher in the Rye[/I] as an excuse to swear in English class.[/QUOTE]
I just read that book, it really doesn't come up very much at all. If anything, the protagonist is sad to see the word written on the school's wall.
Brigham Young University lol.
Mormons.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;36010146]I used the fact that the word "fuck" came up a bunch in [I]The Catcher in the Rye[/I] as an excuse to swear in English class.[/QUOTE]
You are a problem child.
[quote]the trash their kids are reading.[/quote]
That's fucking bullshit. Profanity=trash all of a sudden? It's called developing characters through real dialogue; news flash: people fucking curse in real life, it's not the most profound thing in our society. I'm surprised no one has ever touched on the amount of sexual themes or violent themes in literature. Profanity, if considered trash, has to be grouped with violence and sex. If we all followed this narrow-minded logic, then The Hunger Games books would never be as popular as they are now.
[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;36008743]All the more reason to not read books.
Their obviosly a tereble inflewince on our childrn and have no edyewkashunel valyew.[/QUOTE]
This logic, (I know it's a joke) is where dumbasses/Christians are born.
Some of the books we have to read in school has scenes like where a girl just had sex and she's saying she can feel the cum running down the inside of her thigh. Just out of nowhere.
Aw man, until now books seem to be more or less off the crazy people radar. They better not fuck with my ability to read interesting books with realistic characters that cuss and have sex.
I remember doing a book report on Neuromancer in middle school. I still can't believe they let me read that.
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[QUOTE=DaysBefore;36010536]Aw man, until now books seem to be more or less off the crazy people radar. They better not fuck with my ability to read interesting books with realistic characters that cuss and have sex.[/QUOTE]Books have always been attacked by crazy people, that is why there have been "Banned Reading" lists for so long.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;36010637]I remember doing a book report on Neuromancer in middle school. I still can't believe they let me read that.
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Great book, but i agree in wondering
Last year in my 6th grade class we read My Brother Sam is Dead and the book alone had so many curse words. whoop dee fucking doo we're reading books with curse words we need to do something about this!!!
[I]Mockingbird[/I] has about 100 uses of nigger in it and it isn't banned.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;36010797][I]Mockingbird[/I] has about 100 uses of nigger in it and it isn't banned.[/QUOTE]Not for lack of trying. People constantly push for Huckleberry Finn to be banned because "nigger" is used so much.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;36010807]Not for lack of trying. People constantly push for Huckleberry Finn to be banned because "nigger" is used so much.[/QUOTE]
And missing the point while doing so
[QUOTE=meppers;36008758]actually i always wondered why books never had a rating system[/QUOTE]
In my local bookstore they had American Psycho with an "R18+" sticker on it.
Also this article is stupid.
I can only imagine what these people would think about [i]A Song of Fire and Ice[/i] (the series of which [i]A Game of Thrones[/i] is the first book of, for those who don't know).
Where's the not much English swearing (if any at all, really... They swear using their own terms), there's so much sex, rape, and incest that these peoples' eyes would probably melt right out of their skulls.
:v:
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[QUOTE=Tinter;36010518]Some of the books we have to read in school has scenes like where a girl just had sex and she's saying she can feel the cum running down the inside of her thigh. [b]Just out of nowhere.[/b][/QUOTE]
Well, I hope it's not "just out of nowhere." I would imagine this most often occurs right at the end of a sex scene. I mean, I would be really disturbed if such a thing occurred "just out of nowhere."
"Jessica was distraught that the grocery store didn't have the brand of tea that she enjoys drinking the most. Sighing in discontent and barely-contained frustration, she grabbed the first tea that sounded even mildly interesting, and, as she made her way to the register, she could feel the cum running down the inside of her thigh. When she saw the length of the line of the closest register, she sighed in disbelief. She was absolutely exasperated when she saw that every register had a line of similar size."
[QUOTE=Tinter;36010518]Some of the books we have to read in school has scenes like where a girl just had sex and she's saying she can feel the cum running down the inside of her thigh. Just out of nowhere.[/QUOTE]
best class ever
[QUOTE=stewe231;36009755]I just finished reading "The Things they carried", and It has a shit ton of curse words in it. :v:[/QUOTE]
I read that in high school, my thought:
They hate the whole cursing, and they have this book as one of the required books you need to read?
This is nothing compared to what Southpark has done in the way of making us all potty mouthed.
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