Slog - Comments on No Fun Home http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home Here's a news story about a group trying to get Alison Bechdel's comic book memoir Fun Home banned from their school: The issue is with Fun Home, a book assigned for reading in a mid-level English class at the University of Utah. The class introduces students to different literary genres. In the case of Fun Home, it's told in the style of a comic book. The story centers around the author as she comes to terms with her own and her father's homosexuality. Drawings depicting sex acts are included in the 230 page novel. A student in the class was... Copyright 2008 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:14:49 -0800 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:03:00 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Justin Just more evidence that Mormons are completely out of touch.
Who watches Playboy anymore?

]]> Justin http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984435 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984435 Books Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:37:11 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo That comment is hateful to hermits.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984443 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984443 Books Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:41:01 -0800 Comment by Spoogie Given the rather liberal jack/non-Mormon temperament of the faculty in the English department at my alma mater (from whom I learned a great deal), these pencil-dicked, dust-cunted homophobic protesters will not drum up enough interest to dislodge even one weenie wagger from the bathrooms at Orson Spencer Hall. Send them 40 miles south to BYU, where the girls are girls and the boys are, too.

]]> Spoogie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984518 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984518 Books Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:13:37 -0800 Comment by question Seriously, isn't Utah the nation's largest consumer of porn?

]]> question http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984525 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984525 Books Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:16:10 -0800 Comment by orangekrush I suspect those in Utah secretly get off getting so upset about gay sex.Why else would they spend all that time thinking about it, making websites in protest of it, etc.
Nuts indeed.

]]> orangekrush http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984596 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984596 Books Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:33:49 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways dear douche bags,

if you don't like the book, don't take the class...

thank you

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984671 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984671 Books Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:51:37 -0800 Comment by Westside forever The "homo sex violates God's law of procreation" argument just slays me. If homosexuality really could lead to a reduction in human population, wouldn't the Chinese have "all homos, all the time" policies to go along with their "one child" law?

This is the most ridiculous deflection and a transparent attempt to justify bigotry.

]]> Westside forever http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984738 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984738 Books Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:12:08 -0800 Comment by Jay #4: Yes. Provo, Utah is a major producer of porn and sex entertaiment in the US.

]]> Jay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984834 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c984834 Books Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:27:56 -0800 Comment by douglas if you apply a cartoon voice to this rant as you read it, maybe something along the lines of south park or the simpsons, it makes way more sense.

]]> douglas http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c985049 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c985049 Books Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:28:07 -0800 Comment by robot2501 Watching porn is the first step on a 12-step process of becoming a rapist. Step 2 is denouncing God in all forms....

]]> robot2501 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c985089 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c985089 Books Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:58:26 -0800 Comment by CP China? Uh, thanks to their one-child policy (hooray!) and then then parents preferring boys (in no uncertain terms, if you know what I mean) they've got a generation coming of age with a lot of excess young men with lots of, you know, man juice & energy. So, guesstimates are that this will lead to possible:

a) civil unrest/rebellion

b) mlitarism and foreign adventurism (hey, that's OUR dept!), an army is a great place to put/control/dispose of lots of young males

c) something else? emigration? colonialism? Lots of the gay?

I'm hoping for that last one. Not that I have a dog in this hunt, I just wish people would make love, not war.

Ooh, here's an idea:
d) More video games! It sure seems to keep the Koreans entertained, and us, too.

e) Or more porno. If not more porno for Chinese hermits, then polyandray, and fuck what the Mormons think of it all!

]]> CP http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c985221 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c985221 Books Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:12:59 -0800 Comment by Sarah Oh....so now gays are completely incapable of helping to "perpetuate the cycle of human life"? Last I checked, they're still equipped. They just choose a lifestyle where procreation is less likely.

So are those of us who choose not to make babies just as evil?

]]> Sarah http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c985226 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c985226 Books Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:22:55 -0800 Comment by Calpete #12 - Gays are evil ~ EVIL ~ because they so often choose not to contribute to the overpopulation of the planet. After all, didn't G-d tell the first two non-gays to go forth and multiply? The thing is, I don't remember that sort of command happening later on, when the Earth was pretty well all populated up -- as if, perhaps, there was some sort of cut-off point where the resources couldn't keep up with the multipying? Hm. Must think about this. Maybe get some help from Papa Ratzi while I'm at it.

]]> Calpete http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c985286 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c985286 Books Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:47:33 -0800 Comment by cb What about those of us who DO have an Alison Bechdel fetish...?

]]> cb http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c985747 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/no_fun_home#c985747 Books Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:03:00 -0800