And another amazon review... review.
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conulyThis time, it was purely accidental. I was strolling through the amazon picture book section to find new names to add to the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
book_icons interests (focusing on popular authors/illustrators) and noticed the book King and King. Well, I can't resist a silly attack, so I switched from authors and illustrators to gay picture books and decided to cull the silliest of the silly quotes for easy reference. I won't list what book they're reviewing, but at least one person took the book "King and King" home knowing that it's a fairy tale, and then was stunned at the ending (when our prince falls in love with another prince). I tell you, stupidity is all over the place.
I would press abuse charges if I discovered my day care provider reading this tripe to my child.
If you don't bother to check out the school's library/philosophies before registering, that's nobody's fault but your own.
When we finished my child said: "Well, isn't it sick for a little kid to be in that kinda family? I mean, it IS abnormal and perverted isn't it?" (Our child is very precocious)
Ma'am, your child is very brainwashed.
I don't want to have to explain about gay parents before my kids even understand about sex!
Who said you have to explain about sex? *blinkblinkblink*
A family is a man married to a woman, with children.
So, my grandmother isn't a part of my family? Now that I'm grown up, I'm not a member of any family until I reproduce? WTF? He goes on... Marriage is psychological state that can only happen between a man and a woman, who are commited to each other for a lifetime. No, sir, marriage is a legal arrangement. Theoretically, it requires love, but that isn't the case either. *smitesmitesmite*
If your tolerance for bad poetry is greater than mine, by all means get this book for your kids. For me, though, that's not exactly the kind of tolerance I'd hoped to focus upon :-)
*giggles* Yeah, that's a problem for a lot of books with a Message, instead of focusing on the book they focus on the Message. Now, books should have messages, even picture books, but not to unreadability. Hence the small m. This isn't a silly, sorry.
Straight parents - do you think your child doesn't need a book like this because YOU are straight? Think again, your toddler may turn out to be gay.
Also not a silly. STOP RUINING MY FUN! The person's right, though. Books about "issues" are fun reading for everyone. Especially if you read really quickly and there are never enough books in the house and you really want a book right now please mommy can we go to the bookstore... Um. Sorry.
I encourage all homosexuals to seek out "reparative therapy" and the possibility of finding HEALING for their homosexual condition rather than push another generation into a bitter, angry (and life-threatening) future.
Can we send HIM to reparative therapy? Nice how he put that in quotes, actually... *giggles* Pity that he doesn't grasp why gays tend to have, say, a higher suicide rate.
When two men fall in love and want to live happily ever after, why do you always assume they're gay??? This book has nothing to with sex, and everything to do with love.
Because he's getting married? I know it's a fairy tale, but let's put a little realism here. In the real world, when you fall in love and get married, it involves sex. Usually. Just because little kids don't know it doesn't mean we can't assume they characters here are gay.
There is nothing wrong with gay and lesbian people-however this book forces homosexuality on to young children.
Hm. Does this mean we're now banning all books that show any sort of chosen adult relationships? No more parents, no more fairy tale endings. Otherwise, I could just as easily say you're forcing heterosexuality on young children. But I wouldn't, because I'm not stupid.
There is no need to have this subject available to children 4-8 years old. I think this is just another forum to attack the family as it should be, one father, one mother, and child/children. As a early childhood professional, I do not recommend this book.
1. Because, y'know, if it isn't there, it doesn't exist.
2. Dear god, that's restrictive. Notice, again, no grandparents, no aunts/uncles, not even any stepparents. What do they do if one of the parents dies, all commit mass suicide?
3. Yeah, but the people interested in this book don't care what you think. Even if you are an early childhood professional, they obviously disagree with your view of the Family or they wouldn't be looking at this book in the first place!
Seriously, when dealing with a book about an "issue", don't criticise the "issue". Nobody is going to listen.
That's all. Bored now. *wanders off to look at other reviews*
book_icons interests (focusing on popular authors/illustrators) and noticed the book King and King. Well, I can't resist a silly attack, so I switched from authors and illustrators to gay picture books and decided to cull the silliest of the silly quotes for easy reference. I won't list what book they're reviewing, but at least one person took the book "King and King" home knowing that it's a fairy tale, and then was stunned at the ending (when our prince falls in love with another prince). I tell you, stupidity is all over the place. I would press abuse charges if I discovered my day care provider reading this tripe to my child.
If you don't bother to check out the school's library/philosophies before registering, that's nobody's fault but your own.
When we finished my child said: "Well, isn't it sick for a little kid to be in that kinda family? I mean, it IS abnormal and perverted isn't it?" (Our child is very precocious)
Ma'am, your child is very brainwashed.
I don't want to have to explain about gay parents before my kids even understand about sex!
Who said you have to explain about sex? *blinkblinkblink*
A family is a man married to a woman, with children.
So, my grandmother isn't a part of my family? Now that I'm grown up, I'm not a member of any family until I reproduce? WTF? He goes on... Marriage is psychological state that can only happen between a man and a woman, who are commited to each other for a lifetime. No, sir, marriage is a legal arrangement. Theoretically, it requires love, but that isn't the case either. *smitesmitesmite*
If your tolerance for bad poetry is greater than mine, by all means get this book for your kids. For me, though, that's not exactly the kind of tolerance I'd hoped to focus upon :-)
*giggles* Yeah, that's a problem for a lot of books with a Message, instead of focusing on the book they focus on the Message. Now, books should have messages, even picture books, but not to unreadability. Hence the small m. This isn't a silly, sorry.
Straight parents - do you think your child doesn't need a book like this because YOU are straight? Think again, your toddler may turn out to be gay.
Also not a silly. STOP RUINING MY FUN! The person's right, though. Books about "issues" are fun reading for everyone. Especially if you read really quickly and there are never enough books in the house and you really want a book right now please mommy can we go to the bookstore... Um. Sorry.
I encourage all homosexuals to seek out "reparative therapy" and the possibility of finding HEALING for their homosexual condition rather than push another generation into a bitter, angry (and life-threatening) future.
Can we send HIM to reparative therapy? Nice how he put that in quotes, actually... *giggles* Pity that he doesn't grasp why gays tend to have, say, a higher suicide rate.
When two men fall in love and want to live happily ever after, why do you always assume they're gay??? This book has nothing to with sex, and everything to do with love.
Because he's getting married? I know it's a fairy tale, but let's put a little realism here. In the real world, when you fall in love and get married, it involves sex. Usually. Just because little kids don't know it doesn't mean we can't assume they characters here are gay.
There is nothing wrong with gay and lesbian people-however this book forces homosexuality on to young children.
Hm. Does this mean we're now banning all books that show any sort of chosen adult relationships? No more parents, no more fairy tale endings. Otherwise, I could just as easily say you're forcing heterosexuality on young children. But I wouldn't, because I'm not stupid.
There is no need to have this subject available to children 4-8 years old. I think this is just another forum to attack the family as it should be, one father, one mother, and child/children. As a early childhood professional, I do not recommend this book.
1. Because, y'know, if it isn't there, it doesn't exist.
2. Dear god, that's restrictive. Notice, again, no grandparents, no aunts/uncles, not even any stepparents. What do they do if one of the parents dies, all commit mass suicide?
3. Yeah, but the people interested in this book don't care what you think. Even if you are an early childhood professional, they obviously disagree with your view of the Family or they wouldn't be looking at this book in the first place!
Seriously, when dealing with a book about an "issue", don't criticise the "issue". Nobody is going to listen.
That's all. Bored now. *wanders off to look at other reviews*
