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02 Jul 2006 06:49:36 PM |
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Mommy, What's A Rainbow Party? |
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MOMMY, WHAT'S A RAINBOW PARTY?
By Michelle Malkin =B7 May 25, 2005 04:50 PM
My new column on a just-published children's book called "Rainbow
Party" is up. USA Today's coverage of the book--aimed at
14-year-olds--is here.
So, what's a rainbow party? Here's the column intro:
Here's a rich irony: I'm writing today about a new children's book, but
I can't describe the plot in a family newspaper without warning you
first that it is entirely inappropriate for children.
The book is "Rainbow Party" by juvenile fiction author Paul Ruditis.
The publisher is Simon Pulse, a kiddie lit division of the esteemed
Simon & Schuster. The cover of the book features the title spelled out
in fun, Crayola-bright font. Beneath the title is an illustrated array
of lipsticks in bold colors.
The main characters in the book are high school sophomores supposedly
typical 14- and 15-year-olds with names such as "Gin" and "Sandy." The
book opens with these two girls shopping for lipstick at the mall in
advance of a special party. The girls banter as they hunt for lipsticks
in every color of the rainbow:
"Okay, we've got red, orange, and purple," Gin said. "Now we just need
yellow, green, and blue."
"Don't forget indigo," Sandy said as she scanned the row of lipstick
tubes.
"What are you talking about?"
"Indigo," Sandy repeated as if that explained everything. "You know.
ROY G. BIV. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet."
"That's seven lipsticks. Only six girls are coming. We don't need it."
What kind of party do you imagine they might be organizing? Perhaps a
makeover party? With moms and daughters sharing their best beauty
secrets and bonding in the process?
Alas, no. No parents are invited to this get-together. A "rainbow
party," you see, is a gathering of boys and girls for the purpose of
engaging in group oral sex. Each girl wears a different colored
lipstick and leaves a mark on each boy. At night's end, the boys
proudly sport their own cosmetically-sealed rainbow you-know-where
bringing a whole new meaning to the concept of "party favors."
Why on earth would a publisher market such smut to kids? Says author
Ruditis:
Ruditis says the book was never meant to sensationalize sex parties.
"We just wanted to present an issue kids are dealing with," he says.
Moreover, Ruditis told Publisher's Weekly:
"Part of me doesn't understand why people don't want to talk about
[oral sex]," he said. "Kids are having sex and they are actively
engaged in oral sex and think it's not really sex. I raised questions
in my book and I hope that parents and children or teachers and
students can open a topic of conversation through it. Rainbow parties
are such an interesting topic. It's such a childlike way to look at
such an adult subject with rainbow colors."
You can't make this stuff up. Or can you? Some have downplayed the
phenomenon as apocryphal, but that didn't stop Oprah Winfrey from
having one of her magazine editors blabbing and giggling about it in
explicit language on a show ostensibly teaching parents about their
children's "code language." A transcript of the exchange is up at
Howard Stern's website.
For once, I agree with Stern, who points out a glaring regulatory
double standard. Oprah's broadcast (on daytime network TV, accessible
to children) was as indecent and titillating as anything Stern puts on
the air. Why should she be allowed to hide behind the disingenuous
guise of "education" while Stern faces a crackdown for vulgar
entertainment?
But back to the book. The author and publisher pay lip service to the
informational value of the book to families, teachers, and students. In
the end, the main characters abandon plans for the event and news of an
epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases rocks their school. But as I
point out, the front cover and book marketing (not to mention the
inclusion of frequent profanities and other graphic sex scenes that I
couldn't include in the column) emphasize titillation over education,
overpowering any redeeming value the book might have. Indeed, according
to Publisher's Weekly, the bound galleys sent to booksellers carried
the provocative tagline, "don't you want to know what really goes
down?"
As Ruditis suggests, this book will end up on public school library
shelves in the very near future, along with other "educational" crap
like this. Those who raise even the least objection are cast as
out-of-touch theocrats who need to "deal with reality." Small wonder an
increasing number of families are homeschooling.
If "proper socialization" means teaching 14-year-olds about group oral
sex, we can only pray that more parents choose to raise social misfits.
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| User: "raven1" |
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| Title: Re: Mommy, What's A Rainbow Party? |
02 Jul 2006 08:43:06 PM |
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On 2 Jul 2006 16:49:36 -0700, "Sound of Trumpet"
<sound_of_trumpet@lycos.com> wrote:
By Michelle Malkin
Please note that this psychotic ***** is *not* aa's Michelle Malkin!
--
"O Sybilli, si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O Nobili! Themis trux
Sivat sinem? Causen Dux"
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| User: "Gospel Bretts" |
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| Title: Re: Mommy, What's A Rainbow Party? |
02 Jul 2006 08:13:28 PM |
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On 2 Jul 2006 16:49:36 -0700, "Sound of Trumpet"
<sound_of_trumpet@lycos.com> wrote:
Hey Trumpet. If you know where I can sign up for a party like this for
middle aged adults, will you tell me, man? Thanks.
--
Gospel Bretts
aa Atheist #2262
Fundy Xian Atheist
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whosoever would believe in Him would believe all sorts of
other ridiculous nonsense as well.
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