Templating censorship stories November 22, 2006
Posted by Evil Bender in language and lit, wingnuts.trackback
The always-insightful Pat Hayes points out that the most recent incident of book-burning includes a phrase that could be used in any such story.
I know many of my readers care about such things, so I’ll ask you: what other stupid comments do we always hear in censorship stories?
How about a truthful censor: “I don’t want children exposed to reading about sex in any form. It might give them ideas, or incite their lust. They should grow up pure, marry as virgins, and only have sex to procreate, the way nature and God and the Bible intended.”
Well, first you’ve gotta channel your inner Helen Lovejoy: “Won’t somebody think of the children??” Then you must display a lack of understanding of the subject at hand: “There are lots of books about women out there; can’t they read something nice instead of The Awakening? How about Little Women?”