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[zana16]

Wiscon claims to be "the World's Only Feminist Science Fiction Convention."

Uh. Right.

And The American Library Association reports that last year Harry Potter topped its list of the most challenged books (meaning, the books that people complain shouldn't be freely available) in U.S. libraries. Within a few years, it even topped books such as "The New Joy of Gay Sex" on the ALA's ire-provocation meter. It has been burned, banned and derided, mostly by fundamentalist Christian groups who express two concerns about it: that it encourages a favorable view of magic and witchcraft and, more significantly, that it gets the basic theology of good and evil all wrong. Link here.

Have these people bothered to read the books?

Oh, wait. They'd be "corrupted" if they did.

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[sylvanstargazer.livejournal.com]

I wrote to them last year telling Wiscon they were wrong. I never heard back. Ugh. :)

Oh, and some of them did. They're the ones claming it distroys traditional values by encouraging children to think for themselves instead of blindly following all rules. Go figure.