A Newberry Medal-winning children's book, "The Higher Power of Lucky", has come under fire by child-coddling parents and stodgy, smock-wearing librarians because the book about a fortunate canine contains the word "scrotum". In the context of the story, the term is used correctly but in this time of political correctness, anything remotely offensive has come under scrutiny.
For librarians, whose duty is to provide knowledge of the written word to children and adults alike, to demand that the book be removed from their sacred little libraries is simply balls out crazy. While there are limits to what will and will not be found in a school library (you probably wouldn't find Madonna's infamous sex book) they have a duty to provide our nation's children with the CHOICE to read an obviously well-written book. To deprive children of this right is nuts.
I, for one, would rather have children aware of the appropriate term for the sack of skin which holds the family jewels because some of the slang terms make me feel so dirty. Scrotum. See, it isn't such a dirty word.
So, librarians of the world, pull the word "scrotum" out of your sack of dirty words and allow children to know just what the proper term for that soon-to-be-hairy sack of skin holding your testicles is and, hell, sing it from a rooftop. "SCROTUM!"
3 comments:
Thanks for leaving me a comment, As for this book thing I have seen ignorant people try to ban childrens books going back 15 years when my first started school. It's ridiculous when the word scrotum is the proper term, I wonder if they called the dog bitch. That might really cause an uproar. It's nice to see someone young taking a stance
Scrotum. Bwahaha, i love that word!
Nut sack, ball bag,twin pak, etc. The only objection to the word "scrotum" is most people don't know what you're talking about when you call it by its' proper name...
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