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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">>Most people, and especially most librarians, will tell you that comic books
<BR>>are kids stuff. It
<BR>>is inconceivable to them that comic books are read or intended for adults.
<BR>>That is how the book >ended up in the teens section, despite the warning on
<BR>>the cover.
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Usagigoya sed:
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Hey, let's all dress up in sheets and we can round up all the librarians and
<BR>beat them silly... Your comment is so discrimatory, it makes me wonder what
<BR>some poor librarian ever did to you besides shhhshing you for being too loud
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<BR>------------------->Do I sense some animosity, perhaps an attack of some sort in your response to my earlier post? I think that I do. After your editing to take my comments out of context, you go right on ahead and by employing extremism and other unfounded jumps of logic attribute to me your very own thought process. How does my comment that IMO (one of the parts you edited out) most librarians will tell you that comics are kids stuff result in my propounding that we round up the librarians and beat them silly? Your belittlement (of the white sheets, not me) is insulting. My comments were not discriminatory. Rounding librarians up for a beat down, that would be discriminatory. If anything, what I did was engaging in prejudice. Personally, I do not believe that to be the case. My belief came born of previous discussion with numerous people, as well as librarians, where I was told specifically what I restated in my first post.
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<BR>As for "what some poor librarian did to [me]" and your wonderment, allow me to elucidate: Nothing. Getting me to read anything, real or otherwise, has never been a thing requiring prompting from anyone, although I always appreciate literary recomendations, whether I take them or not. The one time I was shushed for being to loud while in the library was due to the excitement of playing the AD&D module Le Chateau D'Amberville for the first time back in 8th grade, I believe. The librarian who requested our lowered volume was very reasonable and open-minded. After the situation was explained to her she kindly showed us to a closed room where we could play with almost unabated glee. As I have said I have nothing against librarians, and my comment remains my belief as it is based on numerous literary philosophy discussions I have had with people, as well as librarians. The "discrimination" emebbed in the structure of the previous sentence, as well as the final sentence of the first paragraph, is intentional and for purely humorous purposes.
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<BR>FTR, you are not the only left with a wonderment in their mind through this matter.
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<BR>You should be <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">thankful that libraries are willing to carry comics and also remember that a lot of the work done in libraries is performed by students and young adults
<BR>without any real training, so the mistake could easily been the fault of
<BR>some kid working after school...
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<BR>---------------------->No, I should not be thankful that they are "willing" to carry comics. I am a member and supporter of my city's public libraries. Further I pay taxes which are allocated to the libraries. I have a vested interest. I have a valid right to voice my opinion on the matter directly to the library's directors. I have a reasonable expectation for comic books to be carried. I have a reaonable right to expect that the libraries will carry diverese literature in varied forms. I should not be thankful, in the fashion your post seems to imply, that the libraries do what they are supposed to do. (Just so you know, I am thankful that comics are now coming to be carried in libraries, but it is not to the librarians or directrors to whom I am thankful in that regard. Also, I may be using the word in a different sense than you did). The truth is the libraries should be thankful that I (amongst many other) am(are) willing to allocate part of my time and money for their benefit.
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<BR>Your final comment is kinda like an appendix. Bringing the entire context of my first post by refreshing your memory as to what I said, you will recall that I spoke of library volunteers. Again, I can see where someone of that category might be responsible in improperly reshelving a book, I find it highly unlikely that such a worker would be responsible for categorizing a work. Regardless, and even with your scenario, what I said holds true. A library worker judged the comic book without taking the time to figure out what it was, and they did such because of their prejudice that graphic fiction is kids stuff.
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<BR>I apologize for this lenghty post. I hope that my tone is not mistaken. However, I felt an atact upon my integrity and character, and chose not to let it lie. Again, I apologize for taking your time with a post such as this.
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