The more random than that other thread thread

[Cornflower MM]

Barnes and Noble is a bookstore, not a library.

[Chipster of Noonvale]

Julian Wants to be a Mermaid, I really don't see what bad thing there is with that.  Sure, mermaids don't exist, but that's one great thing about fiction, you can do things there that would be impossible in real life.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if some libraries only had political books supporting a specific ideology.

[The Witessss]

it is a bit disturbing b/c it is a boy wanting and 'becoming' a girl.

@Corn if theyhave it at a bookstore, would they refrain from having it at a library?

[Chipster of Noonvale]

it is a bit disturbing...

That's subjective, but I would rather not say more because that would result in a Hearth-style argument.

Either way, mer-creatures can be of any gender.

[The Witessss]

mer-maids are the girls, mer-men are the boys.. yeah, sorry. didn't mean it to get like this. i'm usually not the one that ends the arguements. 

[Matthias720]

As someone who works in a library, I feel reasonably certain that the placement of materials has little to do with the content in the materials (outside of a logical progression to maintain order, ie: Dewey decimal). At my library, I have seen materials I disagree with, but others support, and I have seen materials that I agree with that others would scoff at. I even know the book in question you are referring to. The thing I have to remind myself every time I go to work is that the library is for everyone and not just me. I have a responsibility to not take someone else's voice, and they have no right to take mine. For good or for ill, that's the price of freedom.

[The Witessss]

i guess. First Amendment, right. freedom of the press and speech (etc.). *sigh*

[The Skarzs]

Life isn't easy when you have ideals you uphold. Because by up holding them, the world almost volunteers ways of challenging them.

[Jetthebinturong]

Indeed. Goes both ways.

[The Skarzs]

Mhm.

[Captain Tammo]

Let's swing this back to randomness. Sometimes conversarions like these get into a spiral at no single person's fault and everyone walks away feeling a bit upset. That being said....


*LOUD BURP*

.... thank you

[The Skarzs]

*Waggles a finger at Tammo.* What do you say?

[Captain Tammo]

Um.... I should use my inside burp next time?

[The Shadow of Korriban]

Didn't your mother ever teach you manners boy?

[The Witessss]

*Waggles a finger at Tammo.* What do you say?

tasted better goin' down than up?