Since its initial publication in 1970, millions of children have read In The Night Kitchen, the classic picture book by celebrated author Maurice Sendak. The book is about a young boy who has a surreal dream about baking a cake that needs to be finished by morning. It was named a
These people are sick. And what hypocrites. Mom's for Liberty cofounder and her husband are embroiled in a real sex scandal. And as for student reading skills, aren't these unbalanced moms diverting from the real issues like building young readers phonics skills and phonemic awareness? We as a nation should be focussing on improving early elementary teacher training in the science of reading, not focussing on unbalanced hysteria over illustrations in picture book classics that have been in school libraries for decades. Mom's for Liberty is a fraud and part of a bigger far-right agenda out to pressure, weaken and ultimately destroy our public schools with the goal of replacing them primarily with unaccountable fundamentalist Christian schools and for-profit academies, many online, owned by conservative interests.
How puerile of Moms for Liberty. Their name is an oxymoron.
Why are they objecting to a depiction of male genitalia? Is it because they don’t want it properly identified when uncles, fathers and other male “friends” assault young girls?
Time to get out those fig leaves! What kind of minds and lives do these people have? How unnatural and unwholesome living in their psyche's must be. We can imagine that everyone in their households are fully dressed, no sibling ever to see that a brother or sister has different genitalia, and maybe they all avoid bathing! Chasing after pornography wherever they can imagine it certainly exposes another part of our American history that still needs addressing--Puritanism.
Please continue to address what may seem like a silly issue, but these people want to impose their neurosis on all of us, and our freedoms are too precious to endanger.
So I assume there is no education about classical art in this county either. No David, no Sistine Chapel, no Venus or heroic nudes, no Manet or Gauguin. What small boring lives these people lead! Obsessed with sex to the point that cartoon goblins must be clothed, they are constantly fetishizing things that the rest of us don’t even consider sexual much less pornographic.
How do they handle the primates at the zoo, with their human-like genitalia on display? Should we close down the zoo until they all get little uniforms? Or farm animals who actually do the deed at inopportune moments? Or people’s PDA when they are out and about? None of these situations are under their control, so how do they handle it?
Instead of just using these situations as opportunities to discuss the world with their kids, they are choosing to weaponize their own mental weaknesses and moral failings against every normal person in the county. They are sick, sexually obsessed perverts who are continually thinking about children and porn—and the authorities are allowing them to manipulate the entire school district.
The regular citizens need to band together and demand that the districts use a reasonable and sane interpretation of these stupid laws to allow these books to remain UNALTERED on the shelves. They have got to fight back against these lunatics before they start shutting down museums and trying to restrict adult access to “questionable” books.
OMG - all I can say is (being a retired school librarian) I would not want to be living the nightmare that exists in Florida! Unfortunately, it will not end there, but this mentality will spread to other states and become part of the legislative fabric if not stopped. As a young child, in a family of 7, living in a small house, it was not unheard of to see my brothers and realize that their anatomy was different from mine. Did I see my father's anatomy? No of course not. Did I see my brothers' when they reached puberty? No of course not. But c'mon! We're talking about small children. To call attention to these books and attempt to remove them or change their content is nothing less than shameful!
This reminds me of the Republican outrage when Murphy Brown, a television character and not a real person, became a single mother on television. Dan Quayle, the United States Vice President at the time, criticized her character for "mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone".
So, who wants to take bets on Ms. Pippin's particular kink? Or is she so repressed she herself has never seen a penis or a naked male butt? Or perhaps little Mickey's little penis is the largest one she has ever seen? These people are ridiculous...and dangerous. And serial book banners like Pippin should have their complaints throw out or simply ignored, especially when she admits that she hasn't read the books.
Private colleges should make it clear that the high school diplomas from these Moms for Liberty run school districts are not valid for admission. Clearly the kids in these districts are being denied the opportunity for a decent education.
Lord love a duck... Now they're defacing public property!! That's exactly what those books, purchased with school district funds, are - public property. That they feel so free to deface items purchased with EVERYONE'S tax dollars should enrage the non-MomsForStupidity parents in the district where this is occurring. Is there no end to this insanity?
These people are absolutely ridiculous, and it's clear they have never seen or appreciated any classical art. The worst part of this is that my mom, a retired Pinellas County FL career teacher, says there is no way she would be a teacher today. This is a woman who, as a 55-year-old widow, went back to school to get her Master's degree in Special Education and finished out her career teaching special ed in an inner-city school. Imagine what young future teachers must be thinking.
Moms for Liberty my foot. There is no liberty in their intentions. I wonder how they teach their children about "the facts of life", or even if they do. Do they actually let their kids learn about sex "on the streets"? And then, shamefully, take their teenage daughters somewhere in secret to have the abortion they rail against in public? I know this happens because I've taken care of some of those unfortunate young ladies.
Those women are a disgrace to their own families. It's heartbreaking when you consider what can be gained by education. They should use these wonderful books to open up a dialogue between them and their own kids instead of taking that opportunity away from others. Not to mention a little thing like freedom of speech.
These Moms for Liberty are repressed and messed up if they see nudity as “stimulating prurient interests”. We were born naked. What is more beautiful than a naked newborn child? It seems that museums with statues and paintings of naked people might be next. Where does this end?
These people are sick. And what hypocrites. Mom's for Liberty cofounder and her husband are embroiled in a real sex scandal. And as for student reading skills, aren't these unbalanced moms diverting from the real issues like building young readers phonics skills and phonemic awareness? We as a nation should be focussing on improving early elementary teacher training in the science of reading, not focussing on unbalanced hysteria over illustrations in picture book classics that have been in school libraries for decades. Mom's for Liberty is a fraud and part of a bigger far-right agenda out to pressure, weaken and ultimately destroy our public schools with the goal of replacing them primarily with unaccountable fundamentalist Christian schools and for-profit academies, many online, owned by conservative interests.
How puerile of Moms for Liberty. Their name is an oxymoron.
Why are they objecting to a depiction of male genitalia? Is it because they don’t want it properly identified when uncles, fathers and other male “friends” assault young girls?
Ignorance is not bliss.
VALERIE MELUSKEY
Time to get out those fig leaves! What kind of minds and lives do these people have? How unnatural and unwholesome living in their psyche's must be. We can imagine that everyone in their households are fully dressed, no sibling ever to see that a brother or sister has different genitalia, and maybe they all avoid bathing! Chasing after pornography wherever they can imagine it certainly exposes another part of our American history that still needs addressing--Puritanism.
Please continue to address what may seem like a silly issue, but these people want to impose their neurosis on all of us, and our freedoms are too precious to endanger.
So I assume there is no education about classical art in this county either. No David, no Sistine Chapel, no Venus or heroic nudes, no Manet or Gauguin. What small boring lives these people lead! Obsessed with sex to the point that cartoon goblins must be clothed, they are constantly fetishizing things that the rest of us don’t even consider sexual much less pornographic.
How do they handle the primates at the zoo, with their human-like genitalia on display? Should we close down the zoo until they all get little uniforms? Or farm animals who actually do the deed at inopportune moments? Or people’s PDA when they are out and about? None of these situations are under their control, so how do they handle it?
Instead of just using these situations as opportunities to discuss the world with their kids, they are choosing to weaponize their own mental weaknesses and moral failings against every normal person in the county. They are sick, sexually obsessed perverts who are continually thinking about children and porn—and the authorities are allowing them to manipulate the entire school district.
The regular citizens need to band together and demand that the districts use a reasonable and sane interpretation of these stupid laws to allow these books to remain UNALTERED on the shelves. They have got to fight back against these lunatics before they start shutting down museums and trying to restrict adult access to “questionable” books.
I guess pippin is also censoring the Bible with all its nudity and sexual content...
OMG - all I can say is (being a retired school librarian) I would not want to be living the nightmare that exists in Florida! Unfortunately, it will not end there, but this mentality will spread to other states and become part of the legislative fabric if not stopped. As a young child, in a family of 7, living in a small house, it was not unheard of to see my brothers and realize that their anatomy was different from mine. Did I see my father's anatomy? No of course not. Did I see my brothers' when they reached puberty? No of course not. But c'mon! We're talking about small children. To call attention to these books and attempt to remove them or change their content is nothing less than shameful!
This reminds me of the Republican outrage when Murphy Brown, a television character and not a real person, became a single mother on television. Dan Quayle, the United States Vice President at the time, criticized her character for "mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone".
So, who wants to take bets on Ms. Pippin's particular kink? Or is she so repressed she herself has never seen a penis or a naked male butt? Or perhaps little Mickey's little penis is the largest one she has ever seen? These people are ridiculous...and dangerous. And serial book banners like Pippin should have their complaints throw out or simply ignored, especially when she admits that she hasn't read the books.
Private colleges should make it clear that the high school diplomas from these Moms for Liberty run school districts are not valid for admission. Clearly the kids in these districts are being denied the opportunity for a decent education.
Lord love a duck... Now they're defacing public property!! That's exactly what those books, purchased with school district funds, are - public property. That they feel so free to deface items purchased with EVERYONE'S tax dollars should enrage the non-MomsForStupidity parents in the district where this is occurring. Is there no end to this insanity?
These people are absolutely ridiculous, and it's clear they have never seen or appreciated any classical art. The worst part of this is that my mom, a retired Pinellas County FL career teacher, says there is no way she would be a teacher today. This is a woman who, as a 55-year-old widow, went back to school to get her Master's degree in Special Education and finished out her career teaching special ed in an inner-city school. Imagine what young future teachers must be thinking.
Moms for Liberty my foot. There is no liberty in their intentions. I wonder how they teach their children about "the facts of life", or even if they do. Do they actually let their kids learn about sex "on the streets"? And then, shamefully, take their teenage daughters somewhere in secret to have the abortion they rail against in public? I know this happens because I've taken care of some of those unfortunate young ladies.
Those women are a disgrace to their own families. It's heartbreaking when you consider what can be gained by education. They should use these wonderful books to open up a dialogue between them and their own kids instead of taking that opportunity away from others. Not to mention a little thing like freedom of speech.
What a bunch of snowflakes. 🙄
These Moms for Liberty are repressed and messed up if they see nudity as “stimulating prurient interests”. We were born naked. What is more beautiful than a naked newborn child? It seems that museums with statues and paintings of naked people might be next. Where does this end?
censoring mere nudity perverts mere nudity
I wonder if the "moms" of "liberty" have actually read a book instead of just looking at the pictures.
Claims of porno are just a start. Next on the list will be books depicting minorities as heroes.