Inappropriate For Children

Two years after it came out, Maia Kobabe's comic, Gender Queer, has become one the most banned books this year. It's been accused of being pornographic, pedophilic, and "too adult" for teenagers, with the presumption that (A) all these things are true, (B) that such things are harmful, and (C) such things must be removed from our libraries. You know, for the good of the children.

And I see these adults, posturing over a book they have not read and loudly proclaim they will never read, and I think of How Loathsome.

( Books that are inappropriate for children, experiences that are inappropriate for children, and childhoods that are inappropriate for children. )