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Personally, and this is just me, I stopped reading this article the second the author said that the comic was too inappropriate for their child and that it coul
by aerovistae 6y ago
Personally, and this is just me, I stopped reading this article the second the author said that the comic was too inappropriate for their child and that it could deserve an R-rating for how snowmen are treated. That might be the single most ridiculous thing I've ever read in my life.
I don't know what they were going to go on to say, and the fact that they were writing an article about this in the paper implies that they're clearly a big fan of the comic, but I just couldn't read past that sentence.
- sp332 6y agoI mean, I get it. Blood and guts and (in another strip) shrunken heads with the mouths sown shut...
- 70rd 6y agoIt was clearly tongue-in-cheek...
- aerovistae 6y agoSorry, but it clearly wasn't: he goes on to say that his kid had to steal the books back from the author's bedroom. Not sure why the kid would need to do that if the author hadn't quite seriously taken the books away.
- Jtsummers 6y ago"she", not "he". The author is a woman.
- craftinator 6y agoAh, the pedantic bait and switch, one of my favorite rhetorical foibles!
- Jtsummers 6y agoIt's not a bait and switch, it was my only comment here. But it's reasonable to expect people to get the genders correct for the subjects of their sentences. Use a neutral term like "they" if you don't know and don't want to or can't find out.
- qznc 6y agoThe great thing about threaded discussions is that you can ignore the branches you don't consider worth a discussion.
- selcuka 6y agoTrue, but the rest of the story says that it was a mistake: > I’ve read my fair share of parenting books, but I’d put “Calvin & Hobbes” at the top of the list of required reading. It reminds me to change my point of view.
- surround 6y ago"The violence Calvin inflicts on snowmen could alone earn it an R rating" sounds toungue-in-cheek to me. Regardless, the author immediately it was a "classic parenting mistake" in the next sentence, and lets their kid read the books.
- bpodgursky 6y agoBut don't worry — as a journalist, she definitely knows who Facebook and Twitter should deplatform next.
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- macintux 6y agoYou missed a heart-warming, thoughtful piece because you couldn't take a half-serious, half-humorous comment on the fact that some C&H comics do indeed have adult sensibilities.
- watwut 6y agoSpeaking about oversensitivity ...