It is unclear how many other libraries have or may need to temporarily shut their doors in order to cull their children’s sections for gender-subversive content.
The old world power structure and “gender ideology” of: female equals feminine, and male equals masculine, is really hard to shake for some people. This ancient ideology destroys individual liberty. For how can we be free to live out our peaceful lives while abiding by a institutionalized oligarchy of sex?
My three year-old grandson wanted to be Minnie Mouse for Halloween. So his parents bought the Minnie Mouse costume and joined him as Donald and Daisy Duck. Is he a trans girl? Who knows? Am I worried about it? No.
This makes me really sad because the Linebaugh Public Library is my local library. My family has been going there for 15+ years and we’ve never had an issue with them before. My sister was actually getting ready to get a membership there, but not anymore.
Despite living in Tennessee, this is actually the first time one of Trump’s anti trans policies has impacted my family personally. We knew one probably would eventually, but it sucks that that time is now here. :(
The first personal impact of trumpfuckery for me was not being able to ship an item I left on a trip in France back to the US because of some shipping/tariff ban. This week I reserved a book at my local library that related to the lived experience of trans people and felt so grateful I could but also gut punched because I know other states and areas within states don’t have this “luxury”. To image real life people going along with this bullshit is astounding. The roll back of advancement in the understanding of humanity seems doomed to fail when I watch Alok. https://www.facebook.com/reel/835259152424862/?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&fs=e&fs=e
More time and tax money wasted on a fool's errand because an obsessive and irrational fear about a non-existent threat has entrapped a few ignorant neanderthals who are now part of a ridiculous social hysteria that has been fueled by opportunistic elected officials and fear-mongering media. What's next, torches and pitchforks?
Rather than to discard these books, a clever librarian might take a Sharpie and a razor blade to "offending" books to remove the "offending" sections, then attach a notice inside the cover of each, stating that the book has been brought into compliance with dump's unconstitutional executive order. Even if every page has to be cut out of a book, leaving only a cover scribbled with Sharpie ink, RESHELVE the "sanitized" remains of the book, sort of like a gravestone, as a reminder that we have existed and still exist.
Love this idea!! A memorial or tombstone to free speech and true education...
I'm so angry, frustrated, sad and (insert all the other negative emotions here) over what this country has become. Its sad how much I miss the “normality” of the Bush Sr/Jr years...
It’s another attempt to take away knowledge, if these zealots think that this is going to make what they believe disappear they are sadly mistaken. They preach love they neighbor as long as their neighbor is what they perceive them to be, who are they kidding. The only thing this breeds is a lack of real knowledge of the real world.
“emergency” - these religious zealots are cooked
The old world power structure and “gender ideology” of: female equals feminine, and male equals masculine, is really hard to shake for some people. This ancient ideology destroys individual liberty. For how can we be free to live out our peaceful lives while abiding by a institutionalized oligarchy of sex?
My three year-old grandson wanted to be Minnie Mouse for Halloween. So his parents bought the Minnie Mouse costume and joined him as Donald and Daisy Duck. Is he a trans girl? Who knows? Am I worried about it? No.
This makes me really sad because the Linebaugh Public Library is my local library. My family has been going there for 15+ years and we’ve never had an issue with them before. My sister was actually getting ready to get a membership there, but not anymore.
Despite living in Tennessee, this is actually the first time one of Trump’s anti trans policies has impacted my family personally. We knew one probably would eventually, but it sucks that that time is now here. :(
The first personal impact of trumpfuckery for me was not being able to ship an item I left on a trip in France back to the US because of some shipping/tariff ban. This week I reserved a book at my local library that related to the lived experience of trans people and felt so grateful I could but also gut punched because I know other states and areas within states don’t have this “luxury”. To image real life people going along with this bullshit is astounding. The roll back of advancement in the understanding of humanity seems doomed to fail when I watch Alok. https://www.facebook.com/reel/835259152424862/?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&fs=e&fs=e
EMERGENCY!! Our library is EDUCATING children! Close the doors!!
More time and tax money wasted on a fool's errand because an obsessive and irrational fear about a non-existent threat has entrapped a few ignorant neanderthals who are now part of a ridiculous social hysteria that has been fueled by opportunistic elected officials and fear-mongering media. What's next, torches and pitchforks?
I think we already saw the torches at Charlottesville, didn’t we?
Torch bearing Nazis shouting anti-Semitic, anti-black, anti-homo/trans troupes all in service to “white power.”
Horrifying, but “there’s some good people on both sides” according to our president.
That’s ok, ‘cause I’ve got a very sharp, five tine pitchfork just waiting for the right day to put it to good use.
And yet Republicans insist they care about 'free speech', but I guess it's only free if it agrees with them.
my god, conservatives are the biggest titty-babies on earth.
The modern day equivalent of book burning across an entire state.
Rather than to discard these books, a clever librarian might take a Sharpie and a razor blade to "offending" books to remove the "offending" sections, then attach a notice inside the cover of each, stating that the book has been brought into compliance with dump's unconstitutional executive order. Even if every page has to be cut out of a book, leaving only a cover scribbled with Sharpie ink, RESHELVE the "sanitized" remains of the book, sort of like a gravestone, as a reminder that we have existed and still exist.
Love this idea!! A memorial or tombstone to free speech and true education...
I'm so angry, frustrated, sad and (insert all the other negative emotions here) over what this country has become. Its sad how much I miss the “normality” of the Bush Sr/Jr years...
Yeah... Especially Bush Sr., when a Republican president at least pretended/aspired to be "kinder and gentler."
It’s another attempt to take away knowledge, if these zealots think that this is going to make what they believe disappear they are sadly mistaken. They preach love they neighbor as long as their neighbor is what they perceive them to be, who are they kidding. The only thing this breeds is a lack of real knowledge of the real world.
WTH!?
Hold strong, Librarians... you are the heroes we need right now. Don't give in to the book-burners. Hold fast.
Dumb and dumber.
So, no more romance novels, like, at all