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Mom: Son in 'extensive therapy' after viewing library book
Florida Freedom Newspapers ^ | 7/5/10 | Brian Hughes

Posted on 07/07/2010 1:38:38 PM PDT by MissTed

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I'll admit to being clueless about "Manga" novels, but "extensive therapy" really??????
1 posted on 07/07/2010 1:38:40 PM PDT by MissTed
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>> “extensive therapy” really??????

My guess is, Barbaree is somewhat of a drama queen.


2 posted on 07/07/2010 1:40:37 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: MissTed

Beware of groups called “ Protect Our Children”.

Also, how old is her son?


3 posted on 07/07/2010 1:41:16 PM PDT by Borges
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To: MissTed

It doesn’t mention the title but I suspect the kid already had mental health issues and mom is just looking for a scapegoat.


4 posted on 07/07/2010 1:41:59 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (DeMint 2012)
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To: MissTed

I wonder what the title was? Sounds like something a bit more powerful than Catcher in the Rye.


5 posted on 07/07/2010 1:42:34 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: MissTed

Yeah, dunno about therapy, but some of the Graphic Adult Novels, are not “mere” comic books. From what I understand, it is not unusual for adults to read Manga in Japan, and some of the themes are disturbing and not intended for children.

Someone goofed in purchasing and classification.


6 posted on 07/07/2010 1:43:31 PM PDT by correctthought (Hippies, want to change the world, but all they ever do is smoke pot and smell bad)
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She said her son had removed the book unsupervised from the library’s general stacks last summer and put it in his backpack. She has kept it ever since.

“Now he’s in a home for extensive therapy,” she said.

Just spends all day, every day, flouncing about that little padded room in his homemade Sailor Moon costume. Tragic, really.

7 posted on 07/07/2010 1:44:14 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: Borges

All the article states is “teenage son”. I’m guessing she wigged out more than the boy did.


8 posted on 07/07/2010 1:44:25 PM PDT by MissTed (Never buy products from ACME.)
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The word should be “Hentai” for the pornographic stuff.

I am pretty jaded, and lived some rough stuff as a child but these things shocked the h3ll out of me when I was stationed in Japan (It isn’t even separated from other stuff in bookstores there). I can see it having that effect on some people


9 posted on 07/07/2010 1:45:57 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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>> Just spends all day, every day, flouncing about that little padded room in his homemade Sailor Moon costume.

ROFL! Now that there’s a funny visual.


10 posted on 07/07/2010 1:46:10 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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“My son lost his mind when he found this,” Barbaree said

I'm trying to figure out if the son or Mom lost their mind. One of them is very delicate. They never give the son's age. Mind you, I am against pornography but he looked at it ONCE, STOLE it and went nuts? Ummmmmmm.

11 posted on 07/07/2010 1:46:31 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: MissTed

What kind of library has pronographic comic books?


12 posted on 07/07/2010 1:46:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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My local library has a graphic novels section sandwiched between the children’s section and the teenagers section. The librarian got quite huffy when I suggested that the volume graphically depicting a man being raped to death ought to be placed with the adult books and not six inches from the Pokemon comics.

I haven’t taken my kids back since.


13 posted on 07/07/2010 1:46:57 PM PDT by Eepsy (www.pioacademy.org)
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To: MissTed

They can be extra ordinarily sexually graphic or violent, and usually both, because manga isn’t regulated like other forms of entertainment are in Japan, thus there are virtually no limits on what is printed.

Anyway, I’ll bet that comic cured the kid of any desire to be a weeaboo. He should stick with Spiderman.


14 posted on 07/07/2010 1:47:38 PM PDT by Hexenhammer (sic semper tyrannis)
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To: MissTed

If your son “lost his mind” over this then you are a very poor parent. You have not prepared him to distinguish between acceptable and not acceptable and how on earth does he get through a day with out “vapors” and “severe mental illness” just from every day life? What a whack job of a mother! Ban this mother from having any more children!


15 posted on 07/07/2010 1:48:48 PM PDT by Pilated
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To: MissTed

I don’t believe censorship has any place in the library. If someone doesn’t want to see a book then they don’t have to take it out. They can leave it on the shelf for the next person.

This cupcake was probably already hopped up on Ritilin and probably classified as some sort of autism.


16 posted on 07/07/2010 1:49:04 PM PDT by Dayman
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To: MissTed

How old is this kid?


17 posted on 07/07/2010 1:49:31 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Mother do you think they’ll drop the bomb?
Mother to you think they’ll like this song?
Mother do you think they’ll try to break,my balls?


18 posted on 07/07/2010 1:50:07 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: MissTed

and how do you feel about that?


19 posted on 07/07/2010 1:50:25 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: MissTed
I think that those who want to can buy their own porn. Just in general I have no clue about this book and I am not a prude I occasionally see PG movies.
20 posted on 07/07/2010 1:51:14 PM PDT by Mark was here (It's either Obama or America. There cannot be both.)
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