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Well, if you are concerned that this series of books might be inappropriate for the target audience you could perhaps read one? The first book is 144 pages that

by dwater 4y ago

Well, if you are concerned that this series of books might be inappropriate for the target audience you could perhaps read one? The first book is 144 pages that are 8x5.5", you could probably finish it in an afternoon and then you would know for yourself if is as bad as you have decided it must be. You can start by reading an excerpt here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/537720/the-friendship-code-1-by-stacia-deutsch/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/537720/the-friendsh...

bjt2n3904 4y ago
Pardon me, I haven't decided anything. My question was explicitly if there is anyone here who has -- and acknowledging that any prejudice I have against it is strictly because of how I'm treated by people who aren't arguing in good faith. Am I not allowed to be human? EDIT: FWIW, many of the replies here are already par for the course. I'm fairly open to a discussion about this book in particular -- but I know several other parents who are not. They're burnt out from this nonsense. How do you expect them to react, when the first response to their concerns is "Bigot! Strawman! Not your business! Figment of your imagination!"
- vore 4y ago
  How do you expect commenters to react to your post when you haven't read the book and start soapboxing with your preconceived notions of the book without even engaging with what is actually in the book? It's hard to take you in good faith when 90% of your post is starting a fight with people.
  - bjt2n3904 4y ago
    Have you read the book?
    - vore 4y ago
      Yes, I literally posted an excerpt of it in response to your first comment!
      - bjt2n3904 4y ago
        I saw the excerpt. I'll take a look later for sure, but I don't expect I'll find anything objectionable in the first chapter. In any case, I'm quite serious: if you want to be able to reach across the aisle and effectively advocate for this book, take a look at this thread, and imagine you are on the receiving end of it. The concerns parents have about activist and inappropriate content in their children's libraries isn't assuaged by hostility, denial, and deligitimizing their concerns. An open and disarmed response will easily win them over. Thank you for sharing the excerpt, I'll look forward to reading it later.
        NotSammyHagar 4y ago
        Your comment comes across the same as the people who say they don't want schools to discuss the existinence of different views than their own. Maybe they are rabid capitalists, so they don't want their kids to hear about the existence of communism or something. The world exists, there are gay people. Some of them started thinking about these things when they were teenagers. They were not "tricked" or convinced to be something else.

by dwater 4y ago

bjt2n3904 4y ago

Pardon me, I haven't decided anything. My question was explicitly if there is anyone here who has -- and acknowledging that any prejudice I have against it is strictly because of how I'm treated by people who aren't arguing in good faith. Am I not allowed to be human? EDIT: FWIW, many of the replies here are already par for the course. I'm fairly open to a discussion about this book in particular -- but I know several other parents who are not. They're burnt out from this nonsense. How do you expect them to react, when the first response to their concerns is "Bigot! Strawman! Not your business! Figment of your imagination!"

vore 4y ago
How do you expect commenters to react to your post when you haven't read the book and start soapboxing with your preconceived notions of the book without even engaging with what is actually in the book? It's hard to take you in good faith when 90% of your post is starting a fight with people.
- bjt2n3904 4y ago
  Have you read the book?
  - vore 4y ago
    Yes, I literally posted an excerpt of it in response to your first comment!
    - bjt2n3904 4y ago
      I saw the excerpt. I'll take a look later for sure, but I don't expect I'll find anything objectionable in the first chapter. In any case, I'm quite serious: if you want to be able to reach across the aisle and effectively advocate for this book, take a look at this thread, and imagine you are on the receiving end of it. The concerns parents have about activist and inappropriate content in their children's libraries isn't assuaged by hostility, denial, and deligitimizing their concerns. An open and disarmed response will easily win them over. Thank you for sharing the excerpt, I'll look forward to reading it later.
      - NotSammyHagar 4y ago
        Your comment comes across the same as the people who say they don't want schools to discuss the existinence of different views than their own. Maybe they are rabid capitalists, so they don't want their kids to hear about the existence of communism or something. The world exists, there are gay people. Some of them started thinking about these things when they were teenagers. They were not "tricked" or convinced to be something else.