College student wants graphic novels banned "I expected Batman and Robin, not pornography"

I’ve seen the same. I’ve heard of parents wanting to do their college student’s coursework until the kid gets out of jail four weeks into the semester after their DUI conviction. I’ve heard parents acting as proxies for their college student on the phone where they just ask the kid in the background every question the tech asks the parent.

“Hi, my son won’t call you, but he said the wifi in his dorm room isn’t working well and I’m not paying x amount of dollars a year for my son to not be able to watch Netflix in his dorm!”

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More likely, she had no objections until her father caught her with “obscene books”. Then she needed a quick cover.

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I immediately thought of this pair of panels in Fun Home. (NSFW, obviously.) It’s beautiful and touching and memorable and certainly does fit the silly “any depiction whatsoever of sex acts or genitals” definition of pornography.

I bet that’s the #1 thing she’s flipping her shit over.

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Oh no, there’s porno in my cartoono!

(Agreed, one of the most beautiful moments in a most beautiful book.)

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Y’know, some schools even list the course’s books in the course schedule, so one can find out which books are required before even signing up for the damn class. That’s how I avoided having to read Twilight for my freshman year writing course. It pays to keep oneself informed.

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It’s a shame, if she stuck with it then next semester she would have been studying Alan Moore’s Lost Girls:cop:

But in the spirit of goodwill, let her have the good, wholesome cleanliness of Batman:

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I read that in Mark Hamill’s voice. You owe me some whiskey, and some screen cleaner.

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Can please someone remove these stupid people? When I signed up for this country nobody told me I had to deal on a daily basis with such an amount of moronic attitudes and easy to offend hypocritical retards.

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I agree with them. All college courses should come with disclaimers warning people about potentially objectionable material.

Did you know most basic computer courses involve male and female connectors mating with each other? FILTHY INTERFACES!

And my nephew was SHOCKED when he was once forced to say the word “penis” while pointing at a picture of a human penis in his introductory anatomy class.

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And don’t forget that offensive master and slave thing…

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I live in a certain amount of fear of this type of student. But fortunately, most of my students understand that college is a place where we look at the full range of literature, not just stuff written for emotionally stunted jackasses.

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I dunno, some parts of Sandman: The Doll’s House, are, well, not pornographic, but definitely more adult in nature. I think my brain was permanently turned a bit against the Maus Haus after that bit about “Fun Land” and Disney covering up murders. Not to mention this guy:

Don’t forget, the bible thumping type usually use “pornography” not just for sexually explicit material, but for anything that makes them uncomfortable (which is a pretty damn extensive list).

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That reminds me:

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Kids these days would never be able to handle “porn day” in my Contemporary Art History class.

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Absolute pornography!

And on a related note, instead of seeing Hulkception, does anyone else see Captain Kangaroo under the hulk-stache?

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She can look forward to a great future in drumming up controversies with mindless moral outrage.

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Not parallel. Skewed.

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No further comment necessary.

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