[bksvol-discuss] Re: Adult rating or not?
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:57:51 -0800 (PST)
Sure--but try to imagine, if such words really
offended you and you started to read a book that from
the title and maybe synopsis sounded like something
you'd really enjoy, you suddenly encountered such
words. It would probably or possibly spoil your
day--or hour. Whereas if you were warned that the book
contained words offensive to you you'd be spared that
unpleasantness. It takes less than a minute to add
that information to the long synopsis.
Cindy
--- Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't see how anyone, child or adult, could avoid
> those words in the
> course of everyday life because they are everyday
> words and one hardly
> ever gets a warning that an everyday word is coming
> up. That is why I
> consider hang-ups over such words to be ridiculous,
> but ridiculous or
> not I suppose everyone has a right to their own
> hang-ups,. I just
> don't see why I or anyone else should worry about
> keeping track of
> those hang-ups and issuing warnings or restrictions.
> It is the
> responsibility of the hung-up person to deal with
> her or his own
> hang-ups.
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Cindy Rosenthal
> <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There are a few words, I think, e.g.,words that
> begin
> > with f, and sh come to mind, that most people
> would
> > consider obscene. I wouldn't consider "pissed off"
> to
> > be obscene, nor, "bloody" in an exclamation,
> though in
> > 19th-century England apparently it was
> unacceptable.
> > As to profanity, I'm assuming swearing using the
> word
> > "God" and "Hell" would be considered profanity by
> > some. Anyway, I put the warnings in the long
> synopsis
> > for anyone who doesn't want to read books
> containing
> > those words rather than marking them adult. As you
> > say, people can decide for themselves what they
> want
> > to read if they have enough knowledge about what's
> in
> > the book. smile.
> >
> > Cindy Ro
> > --- Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >> How can you tell what is obscene though? A couple
> of
> >> years ago I had
> >> someone start ranting at me for being obscene
> >> because I had said that
> >> someone was pissed off. It had never even
> occurred
> >> to me that anyone
> >> might consider that to be obscene. It seems to me
> >> that it is better to
> >> let others deal with their own hang-ups rather
> than
> >> try to police
> >> their reading materials for them.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Cindy Rosenthal
> >> <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Bearing in mind that some members might not
> want
> >> to
> >> > read books with profanity or obscenity, torture
> or
> >> a
> >> > lot of sex, explicit or suggested, although I
> >> don't
> >> > rate them Adult I do put in the long synopsis
> that
> >> the
> >> > book contains whatever it is that I think such
> >> readers
> >> > might want to know about. I do rate some things
> >> adult,
> >> > usually books that have graphic descriptions of
> >> sexual
> >> > acts that to me are coarse or unpleasant.
> Parents
> >> of
> >> > children and young adults who think their
> children
> >> are
> >> > mature enough to read anything they want can
> give
> >> > their permission--there is a form for this I
> >> > understand--and then they can download whatever
> >> they
> >> > want.
> >> >
> >> > Cindy
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