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- From: gds@ficus.cs.ucla.EDU (Greg Skinner)
- Subject: Re: Those damned magazines (was: clearing something up)
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- Organization: in your face!
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:47:32 GMT
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- In article <1gq754INNcnq@agate.berkeley.edu> Bonita Kale writes:
- >But, in my experience, it's too late for the boys. By the time
- >they're old enough to be interested in mature (or any!) sexual
- >expression in reading, they aren't reading fiction, or at least, not
- >much. There's a whole bunch of boys (of the ones who read at all)
- >who go from kid's sports stories to Playboy or nothing.
-
- It's too bad that all the boys you know are like this, because not all
- boys are like this.
-
- >In literature, both boys missed a lot of good stuff that my daughter
- >read and enjoyed. They never read about Narnia, or the Black
- >Stallion, or Jo March or Heidi, to mention a few books I actually own
- >and tried to interest them in. They seemed to go from picture books
- >to nonfiction to Sherlock Holmes and Tolkien--the sexless wonders.
- >Now they're adults and read adult books (still, by the way, missing a
- >lot of good kid's books that I bring home).
-
- Well, with regards to Tolkien, at least, no one's having sex in the
- books, but that's not the point of the books. However, IMHO they show
- women in positions of high regard and respect, and value them for
- characteristics that I understand women value in themselves (wisdom,
- courage, healing, etc.).
-
- --gregbo
-
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