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greenygalSometimes I miss lettercols. They reminded us how many loons there are out there. :)
Reading through old SUICIDE SQUAD issues (about which I can only say "Yum!"), I encounter a letter from a fellow who was concerned that the content in SS was not child-friendly. We might reasonably inquire as to why he had expected it to be, given that the premise of the book is a bunch of supervillains doing black ops work for the government (all right, they weren't all supervillains, but the good guys weren't always very nice either), and the issue he was responding to was quite far enough into the book to have firmly established the tone. But it did carry a Comics Code seal, and this was years ago when kids probably did read comic books, so okay, granting that for a minute.
So what's his problem? The whole idea of the book? The presence of a sociopathic assassin on the roster? The body count among both the main characters and the people they went up against? The presence of drugs, racism, and terrorists? The bad language, even?
Nope. His complaint is that an issue (an issue that starts off with several murders, I might add) features a character drooling over attractive women and has mentions of bras, underwire bras, and a gynecological exam. He feels this is bad. How would the writer like to be the one having to explain to a young boy what an underwire bra is?! "Shame! Shame!" he cries. No, really, he says that.
Personally, I feel up to explaining to children of all ages what an underwire bra is, and am equally secure in my belief that they wouldn't particularly care. If that's the worst question a parent ever has to answer, they're clearly being watched over by some particularly overprotective deity. And if that's the most traumatizing thing that a kid ever encounters, they're being kept in a plastic bubble, and probably wouldn't be allowed to read SUICIDE SQUAD anyway.
God. Underwire bras. Oh, the horror. *snickering helplessly*
Reading through old SUICIDE SQUAD issues (about which I can only say "Yum!"), I encounter a letter from a fellow who was concerned that the content in SS was not child-friendly. We might reasonably inquire as to why he had expected it to be, given that the premise of the book is a bunch of supervillains doing black ops work for the government (all right, they weren't all supervillains, but the good guys weren't always very nice either), and the issue he was responding to was quite far enough into the book to have firmly established the tone. But it did carry a Comics Code seal, and this was years ago when kids probably did read comic books, so okay, granting that for a minute.
So what's his problem? The whole idea of the book? The presence of a sociopathic assassin on the roster? The body count among both the main characters and the people they went up against? The presence of drugs, racism, and terrorists? The bad language, even?
Nope. His complaint is that an issue (an issue that starts off with several murders, I might add) features a character drooling over attractive women and has mentions of bras, underwire bras, and a gynecological exam. He feels this is bad. How would the writer like to be the one having to explain to a young boy what an underwire bra is?! "Shame! Shame!" he cries. No, really, he says that.
Personally, I feel up to explaining to children of all ages what an underwire bra is, and am equally secure in my belief that they wouldn't particularly care. If that's the worst question a parent ever has to answer, they're clearly being watched over by some particularly overprotective deity. And if that's the most traumatizing thing that a kid ever encounters, they're being kept in a plastic bubble, and probably wouldn't be allowed to read SUICIDE SQUAD anyway.
God. Underwire bras. Oh, the horror. *snickering helplessly*
