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Fucking Calvin & Hobbes?!
Are you fucking kidding me right now?!
Can't have cartoons about questioning authority,those 8y olds might get ideas!
These people are going after anything that might imply nudity at all. I seem to remember Calvin had an immense hatred of baths. So once his mom finally got him in, poof, that now has to go, because he's naked under all that water.
I'm surprised they don't just ban all visual art that depicts humans, since everyone is naked under their clothes.
A small kid asking for a porn movie??? BAN THAT SHIT!!!!
Calling satanic powers?? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST BAN THIS HERETICAL SHIT!!!!!!
I always loved Calvin's snowman hijinks. And Spaceman Spiff. And all the "I'M HOOoooOOOOooome!"
I don't think that's it. It's named after philosophers, the people banning aren't always stupid. I bet Calvin seems like a left wing propagandist to them too.
You're not wrong, in general. But in this specific case, in Tennessee, it's specifically about the nudity.
It's "nudity" of any type, which puts the Venus de Milo in the same category as Brazzers.
So the Bible is inappropriate for all students and there's several parents I need to report...
Why are Christians so afraid of their God given bodies
They were raised to be terrified of it, and so they raise their kids to be terrified of it, and the cycle perpetuates. It's hard to break. The reasoning is usually that seeing nudity will tempt them to sin. As someone who abandoned his puritanical upbringing nearly 20 years ago, I still have a hard time just being ok with human bodies - even after being a nurse for some years, I'm still not entirely desensitized to nudity.
Thanks for clarifying. I was giving them more credit than was due.
I was about to jump in and defend the heck out of Shel Silverstein but it's based on a broad sweeping nudity ban?
That's fair. That man was an accidental children's book author and the best kind of weirdo.
The ban is dumb but his inclusion less so.
I said before but my guess is that with Shel they saw the title "A Boy Named Sue" and automatically banned him.
Geez... God forbid there's a copious amount of bubbles or something covering anything if Calvin ever does jump back out of the bath
There are strips where he's running around naked and you see his butt
I have the "Complete Collection" box set, and I broke my 10 year-old son's heart when, after he finished the whole thing, I had to tell him that there were no more. I think they made him a better kid.
No, the right wing are just that sensitive.
An inquisitive young kid with a strong imagination and who asks lots if questions is rarely seen by adults in power as a positive influence.
Also, Eric Carle? Really?
Promotes the radical environmentalism ideology and the war on cars biking!
And building character!