The Four Color Media Monitor

One of IGN's worst writers sugarcoated the subject of the LGBT comic titled Gender Queer being "banned" from school libraries, which the worthless CBDLF is making the subject of a campaign allegedly against censorship:

Cartoonist Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer is widely regarded as one of the best and most influential graphic novel memoirs of the 21st Century. It's also among the most commonly banned books in the US, with the Los Angeles Times labeling it “the most banned book in American schools.” Fittingly, Kobabe is teaming with Oni Press for a new fundraising campaign dubbed "Fight Censorship, Read Comics." [...]

A portion of the proceeds from Fight Censorship, Read Comics will be donated to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) and the Florida Freedom to Read Project (FFTRP). The campaign features 15 different items, including T-shirts, art prints, enamel pins, keychains, and even signed and numbered editions of the Gender Queer hardcover. Preorders are open from now until August 20, with fulfillment slated to begin in September.

“The freedom to read, the freedom to access information, and the freedom to learn are some of the most vital rights in this country,” said Kobabe in a statement. “Removing books from schools and public libraries cuts off people's access to knowledge about the wider world and about their own lives within it. This is especially true when the books being removed are about minority identities, or topics less commonly portrayed in popular culture. A book that might seem pointless to one reader might be life-saving to another. Removing a book because its themes offend one reader is censorship, and must be combated at every turn. Please stand up for the freedom to read and the freedom to write!”

Just one reader? This is a whole bunch of parents who're rightfully offended something crude and smutty is being marketed to their children, often behind their backs. If it's inappropriate to be putting common pornography on school book shelves, why is LGBT propaganda like this considered okay? The way this Kobabe resorts to complaints about censorship when the same book could doubtless be bought at bookstores, both cement-based and online, is sickening. If the GN can be bought to read at home, that's not censorship. It's just a recognition that certain subjects and how they're written/filmed are inappropriate for children. There's a reason the MPAA was founded in 1968, and one of their suitability rankings for movies was the R-rating. If this GN depicts graphic sex scenes, then it's not suitable for children. We could also wonder what the author thinks is so wrong with heterosexuality, since that's what seems to be the case here too.

If Frank Miller for one is still associating with the CBDLF - tarnished as it's been for years now - despite where they're going with this latest "campaign", I'm very disappointed with him. And the CBDLF refused to represent Mike Baron in a legal suit of his of recent. So what good is it to have a legal outfit specially for comicdom if the people involved base their business entirely on their politics? Nobody with common sense should donate any money to the CBDLF, nor should they ask them to serve as representatives in legal issues if this is what they're going to represent. But IGN should also be looked upon in huge disappointment for backing their platforms hurtful to children. If there's any site about pop culture, video games or otherwise, that we don't need, it's IGN. A pure embarrassment.

Labels: censorship issues, golden calf of LGBT, libraries, moonbat artists, msm propaganda, politics