Nah. My socialist grandparents informed a lot of what I protested (and protest), but I’d never have invited them to a campus march.
Conservative or no, this student just sounds like she desperately needs to grow up.
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“if they (had) put a disclaimer on this, we wouldn’t have taken the course.”
We? Who’s this ‘we’? She is the one taking the course. This fundamentalist father still appears to see everything his adult daughter does as belonging to him personally; he feels entitled to keep his bubble around her even as she gets an education away from the home. I’m sure she agrees with him, but she may have been conditioned by growing up with these people as parents.
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Oh, God, please someone get a hidden camera on her when she reads “The Miller’s Tale.”
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It’s a necessary suspension of disbelief for the whole series to work. Yeah, crazy, but what else would you do to get to the premise of just one man surviving? (and his monkey?)
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and still are, apparently: "Her father Greg Shultz said that “if they (had) put a disclaimer on this, we wouldn’t have taken the course.” Note that her dad said “WE” wouldn’t have taken the course.
Apparently this family does not understand that you can have your crazy at home all you want, but that won’t stand in the real world where everybody else lives.
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I’m already a dirty liberal, and have not read Persepolis. Now I know what my vacation novel will be next week!
I love the fact that the father is quoted as saying “we wouldn’t have taken the course” - y’know what, “we” are not taking the course, your daughter is. And she’s going to community college to broaden her horizons, be exposed to things that her parents didn’t teach her, and GTFO of that religibot mindset that she was raised under. If she’s not doing that, she’s doing college wrong. If you want her educated using only your dogma, send her to yeshiva.
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The arrogance of that hollow headed little princess is appalling. You take classes at a university to learn what you have not already experienced. This sorry ass thinks she gets to tell the professor how to teach her. Listen honey, you had your last “special” class when you were still in high school. This stuff here is for the big people, you need to find yourself a special place somewhere in life where you won’t get challenged by such rude shit as the real world. Maybe you could fold the sunday bulletins for your local church or something like that.
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The purpose of going to College is not to prepare young adults for childhood…
It sounds to me like the students should have been enrolled in kintergarden by their “parents”.
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undoubtedly this is a family that swallowed the whole propaganda thing that right wing evangelicals are being fed by viscous, nasty special interests (ie Family Research Council, etc). People like that live in a parallel universe.
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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… 
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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