U.S. publisher relents on eensy-weensy penis in German kids book
From EarthTimes.org:
A German children’s book can be published in the United States after a publisher there dropped its demand for the genitals on a picture of a statue in it be air-brushed out, it was revealed Thursday. The German illustrator of the book had angrily complained of censorship and withdrew it from the US market last summer after being told that shoppers might object to the nudity.
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The offending male organ is a tiny squiggle in the picture: the male statue itself is only 7.5 millimetres high on the page.
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All we can say is, whoever got upset about this in the first place is a bit of a tool.
The right description isn’t “a bit of a tool”. It’s a dirty-minded, sex-obsessed busybody.
Because its a good thing to show pee pees to kids. right?
Thanks to the seventies we now a society where every moron thinks his opinion is worth protesting about. Sure am glad all those candlelight vigils, prayer fests and noisy (and stinky) hippie protests led us to this great moment.
The statue of David must really perturb those small minded twerps.
Jo Jo:
A penis (as we adults call them - I believe you stop using the term peepee at the age of 5) is a natural part of the human body. Half of kids have them. The other half will eventually see them anyway. There’s nothing wrong with showing an accurate depiction of the human body.
I’ve seen stuff more “offensive” on the Discovery Channel. Get over it
Thanks JR, you’ve really changed the way I think about my dingy
Stupid yanks
But it is ok to go to war and kil lots of brown people
Adrian:
I think that’s the basic idea of this entire newsclip…. yeah. Thanks for summing it up for the rest of us.
To Adrian Rowe
Just as long as they are brown its OK , your safe we never beat up on the Canadians we just protect them as most are back word and afraid and couldn’t put up a good fight anyway.
small peepees rock
Hey Caseclosed!
You protect us? From who, rampaging Danes? We have more to worry about from our neighbours in the south than we do from anyone else.
As for the two world wars, don’t worry about showing up 2 years late to the first and four years late to the second, no one minded. Going further back, sorry about Canadian troops burning the white house and subsequently giving it its new name, we’re sorry you lost that war as well, but no hard feelings eh?
We are ‘back word’, hey that’s a nice new phrase you invented there Cleetus Inbreedus, do you mean ‘backwards’
umm
maybe ‘yew shud trah tu git yer spellin rite afore yeh comment on uthuh peeple’
To help I spelled the last sentence the way you probably do to make it easier on what is obviously a tired and small mind
since when has it been NOT okay to show the human body to kids? what exactly made the human body into something detestible? like the kid isn’t gonna stand on a chair in the bathroom and check out his own junk one day. COME ON.
you people are farkin ridiculous.
Next up: forbidding boys from looking down.
Adrian Rowe,
Good thin you are educated enough not to generalize and stereotype Americans. I disagree with the idiots (Jo Jo is one of them) that want to turn this place into a Nanny State like the UK. I also disagree with the war in Iraq. I also am an American. Also, Iraqis are not all brown, you ignorant tool.
No picture?
I blame Canada. It’s obviously all their fault. They have plenty of time to plot evil plots while snowed in all year.
If it’s just a squiggle, what child will really be impacted by that? PENIS.
Quick reminder - arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you’re still retarded. (political correctness back on)
“we just protect them as most are back word”
Do you know the definition of “irony”?
Never argue with an idiot, they will drag to their level and beat you with their experiance!
Give it a rest people!
If it’s good enough for Bart Simpson….
This is going to leave a lot of little boys profoundly confused about why they don’t have a squiggle too.
I have decided to airbrush out my own penis…I find it offensive!
1) Don’t try to teach a pig to dance. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
2) Canadians and Americans have one GREAT shared attribute. They find the stupidest people in their respective nations, and put them in charge of the government which then airbrushes out (as best it can) the fact that they are dicks and hopes that the Ministry of Bread and Circuses is distracting the plebeians by getting them to fight over little things on the internet.
3) The second stupidest people in each of our great nations then join in chats like this and wonder. “Why?” They whine and moan and squawk and carry on endlessly until finally…OH MY GOD!! You’ve made me one of you! Damn you, invisible internet people!!
OK.. so.. i have a son.. and im totaly okay wiht him seeing a lil penis in a book.. not like he dosent play with his every day of the week as it is! OHH and if i ever do have a girl, i totaly am okay with her seeing apenis too! And my boys seeing a vagina… its the human body, what is so bad about htat? It is a beautiful thing, and should be treated so. Im not saying go out and dance naked, just learn to teach your kids about the human body.
As for the whole canada-america thing, im leaving it mostly alone. I worked for a call center here in America, and i found out just how DUMB americans are… and its not pretty. We need to stop fighting wars that are meaning less (no i didnt forget 9/11, yes i support our troops, not the war though) and focus on our health care and our school systems! There.. i just solved half the problems in america… and im only 19…
Here’s a thought… stop stressing over a drawing of a penis in a book and start worrying about that big d*ck sitting in the White House. We have Mexican troops crossing our southern borders at least once a month.. engaging in stand offs with Texas law enforcement… and HELPING DRUG SMUGGLERS BRING DRUGS INTO OUR COUNTRY!!! Am I the only one in the whole entire world who thinks we have far bigger problems that we need to address than a squiggle that represents a penis on a statue in a book???
“Stupid yanks…But it is ok to go to war and kill lots of brown people”
Man I wish I could argue with that. I believe in equal opportunity for Americans. We should be able to kill foreigners and see works of art.
More earnestly, the obsession with hiding nudity is ridiculous. We split from Europe AFTER the renaissance , right? Argh.
Remember all those fountain statues of naked kids peeing, that were so popular and in all the parks? Same guy got rid of all of those too.
Americans are just uptight sissies that can’t see a penis without getting fired up into some angry, homophobic, rant against naturism. Why don’t we stop Catholic Priests from ejaculating into small boys in USA before we go on a crusade against a cartoon penis? It’s not like the penis in the picture had perfect anatomy either, it’s just a CARTOON SHAFT WITH ZERO DETAIL. Get over it, USA. Unless that tiny cartoon penis was larger than your’s, you shouldn’t put so much time into hating it. Ooohh, yeah I went there!
Many times i’m ashamed of my own country.