{"id":4271,"date":"2008-04-01T00:58:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T08:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/01\/anti-porn-activists-probably-the-christian-kind-protest-alison-bechdels-fun-home\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T00:58:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T08:18:28","slug":"anti-porn-activists-probably-the-christian-kind-protest-alison-bechdels-fun-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4271","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Porn Activists (Probably The Christian Kind) Protest Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home""},"content":{"rendered":"

(Links NSFW. Depending on your workplace, I guess.)<\/p>\n

Bechdel doesn’t seem too torn up about it<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n

From KSL channel 5 in Utah:<\/p>\n

Time Magazine<\/em> voted it the book of the year, but some students are calling it pornographic and asking it be removed from their curriculum.<\/p>\n

Thomas Alvord, with the group “No More Pornography,” says, “The issue is exposing people to pornography.”<\/p>\n

The issue is with “Fun Home,” a book assigned for reading in a mid-level English class at the University of Utah. The class introduces students to different literary genres. In the case of “Fun Home,” it’s told in the style of a comic book. The story centers around the author as she comes to terms with her own and her father’s homosexuality.<\/p>\n

Drawings depicting sex acts are included in the 230 page novel. A student in the class was offended and approached the group “No More Pornography,” which made headlines earlier this year when it staged a successful protest of music videos shown a gym in Provo. The group has started an online petition in protest of the book. […]<\/p>\n

The student in question accepted an alternate assignment but would like to see further changes. The university has no plans make any. It says while a student has the right not to read the book, other students in the class have the right to judge for themselves.<\/p>\n

“No More Pornography” hopes to continue talking with the University of Utah and will continue the online petition. The group is also asking that filters be installed on campus computers to prevent students from accessing explicit images.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m pretty sure these are Christian anti-porn activists, not Feminist anti-porn activists. But this still reminds me of one of my primary arguments against the MacKinnnon\/Dworkin anti-pornography legislation, back when that argument hadn’t yet been made moot by court rulings that the M\/D ordinance was unconstitutional: Any anti-porn legislation that isn’t extremely narrowly defined will be used by right-wing Christians to harass queer and feminist cartoonists. ((And other sorts of artists, as well, I suppose. But it’s only cartoonists who are really important, needless to say.))<\/p>\n

Fun Home<\/em> is, for those of you who haven’t read it, one of the best American comics of the last decade. I posted about Fun Home<\/em> previously here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Curtsy: Dykestowatchoutfor.com<\/a> and Journalista<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Illustration beyond the fold is NSFW.<\/p>\n


\nScene from \u201cFun Home\u201d by Alison Bechdel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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