There are four hundred and fifty-one reasons that this is a bad idea.

[theotherjay]

According to the Guardian and the Press-Enterprise, the Menifee Union School District in southern California has pulled all copies of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary off class shelves, and is considering banning the book entirely. Because it provides a definition of "oral sex" that a parent considered "age-inappropriate." (For those who don't want

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[littlelamb]

socal! yaaaay.

[theotherjay]

See, that's what I don't get. Aren't they supposed to be the wild, out of control liberals, San Francisco, Hollywood, all that? I wouldn't be so surprised if this happened in, like, Kansas. Still outraged, but not quite as astonished.

[littlelamb]

It depends where. Orange County is notoriously conservative (Trinity Broadcasting Network stationed there).

[je5s]

Also pretty sure there are some conservative religious areas in true Northern California (the Bay Area is mid-CA). Not so different from southern Oregon in that sense.

[ashfae]

*head desk*

[theotherjay]

If I were living down there, I would be like, oh hai, see dis injunction? But up here, all I can do is rant on the internet.

[ashfae]

Actually it's happened before, to my dismay. Pretty much every book has been challenged at least, for one reason or another in one place or another. You'd think that alone would clue people in that *nothing* exists that *someone* won't find offensive somewhere. *sigh*

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[mathnerd]

Oh jesus CHRIST. That is so ridiculous, I don't have words. *froths at the mouth*

[theotherjay]

You don't have words BECAUSE THEY TOOK AWAY THE DICTIONARY !!1

[vajrabot]

When I was a little kid I thought I was so cool because I found the word sex in the dictionary and showed it to the teacher.

I also wore a headband that I had written the word "burp" on because it was the worst swear-word I thought I could get away with wearing on my person.

[theotherjay]

I think you need to bring it back, like, in protest.

[broknashleydoll]

and they wonder why kids cant spell these days...

[theotherjay]

I NO RITE

[leensterama]

Come on now, you know that following the rules is more important than knowledge.