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<p>The New York Observer</p>
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<p>The Real Reason We Need to Stop Trying to Protect Everyone’s Feelings</p>
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<p>There is a trend afoot to conveniently remember the works of authors like Ray Bradbury and Aldous Huxley as warnings against distant totalitarianism and control. But this only scratches the surface of what these books are about.</p>
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<p>Earlier this year a community college student in San Bernardino protested being required to read a Neil Gaiman graphic novel in one of her classes. It was too graphic, apparently. Her father—who does not seem to understand that his daughter is a separate
human being (an adult one no less)—told The Los Angeles Times, “If they [had] put a disclaimer on this, we wouldn’t have taken the course.” A mom in Tennessee has complained that the gynecological information in the book in the bestselling nonfiction science
book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is too pornographic for her 10th grade son.</p>
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<p>Full story:<br>
<a href="http://observer.com/2015/09/the-real-reason-we-need-to-stop-trying-to-protect-everyones-feelings/">http://observer.com/2015/09/the-real-reason-we-need-to-stop-trying-to-protect-everyones-feelings/</a></p>
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