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hangingfire ([info]hangingfire) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-02-05 13:12:00


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Current music:They Might Be Giants, "The End of the Tour"

Won't someone think of the CHILDREN?!
I come bearing more Lede wank. Today, the Lede posts about how the kids of today are getting an eyeful of pr0n online:

It will probably come as no surprise to most Internet users that a new survey, published in the February issue of the journal Pediatrics (an abstract is available here), found that nearly half of all young people reported exposure, intentional or otherwise, to online pornography.

Forty-two percent of the 1,500 youngsters (ages 10 to 17) who were surveyed by telephone between March and June 2006 reported such exposure. Two-thirds of those who were exposed said the exposure was “unwanted,” according to the study; the exposure occurred most often when using file-sharing programs to download images.
The very first poster in the comment thread brings the wank:
This problem would be easy to solve if mom’s behaved like moms by taking proper care of their children. Children need close parental supervision, particularly maternal, all the way through high school. They don’t get it when mom’s off working full time and returning home so tired she just wants to chill out.
And they're off!
Wow Mark- You sure feel threatened by working women… “Beats me why women think having a career is such a big deal”… How stupid are you? Your question is the same a women asking men why we need to have a career? Why don’t you stay at home and take care of kids?
And that's just the beginning.


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[info]hangingfire
2007-02-06 04:24 am UTC (link)
Heh. I was fourteen when I read that, and so completely did not understand what was going on in that scene. My naivete until I was about 17 was staggering, frankly.

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[info]evilsqueakers
2007-02-06 06:59 am UTC (link)
I read "Wild Nights" by Emily Dickinson in 7th grade out loud...and had no idea what it was about until I started reciting. Damn thing only being 12 lines (required link) and only like 6 words a line.

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[info]serai
2007-02-06 04:41 pm UTC (link)
Funniest Poetry Fact Ever: Almost all of Emily Dickinson's poetry can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas".

Really puts a new spin on "I felt a funeral in my brain..."

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[info]evilsqueakers
2007-02-06 08:08 pm UTC (link)
Damn, I could have used that. It would have been nice to be able to read the song better than haltingly remembering. *grins*

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[info]akairis
2007-02-08 07:13 am UTC (link)
My Intro to Poetry prof used the Gilligan's Island theme for that instead.

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[info]dragonfangirl
2007-02-06 02:03 pm UTC (link)
Panicking Adults really need to calm the heck down: repeated experience shows that if kids aren't ready for it, they just won't understand it. This has been the case with everyone I know who was exposed to GOSH, SEX before puberty...

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-06 10:11 pm UTC (link)
When I was a kid and they'd make some inappropriate joke on a kids' show, I thought it was a reference to an old movie because they'd make references to old movies all the time.

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[info]lyppy
2007-02-06 03:38 pm UTC (link)
I reread it a couple times. My first reaction was, "Wait...what?" Then, "This can't be serious!" and then, "What?" again.

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