Children’s picture book flagged at Alabama library because author’s last name is ‘Gay’
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Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the children's and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author's last name is Gay.
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Reminds me of that time when some Christian website had put an RSS news feed on their home page, but of course the owner had insisted on putting a word filter on it.
So the website had a headline about "Tyson Homosexual" winning gold.
People immediately started wondering what kind of headlines the website would have on the anniversary of the historic flight of Enola Homosexual and the Hiroshima bombing.
Ah, nice! This is a glorious example of the genre.
Honestly, my favorite use of this is Guild Wars 2 turning everything censored into 'kitten'.
Skittenhorpe, Lincolnshire.
Also gloriously resulting in sporting news stories being auto-censored to be about “rugby prostitutes” in the US.
To be fair, "ball-tickler" is a weird name for a field position so I see why they edited it.
Is the "tight end" in American football any better?
You haven't heard someone toeing the line of decency until you have listened to ex-Tight End Greg Olsen. I swear to god he talks in double entendre on purpose
Reminds me of the good old days when AOL was king of the dial-up “internet”. They unilaterally rolled out a filter that suddenly completely broke a forum devoted to survivors of breast cancer. Only after a ton of backlash and negative press about “survivors of hooter cancer” did they relent…
This one seems apocryphal to my ear, but it's possible.
Edit: I stand corrected!
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-12-02-1995336086-story.html
All it took was a google search for “aol hooter cancer”…
Thanks! My Google Fu must be getting weak, I foolishly left AOL out of my search. 🤦🏻♂️
This is the guy the feed was talking about. A good athlete who probably got a lot of shit in school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyson_Gay
To be fair, he could have always used his father's last name instead...
Why should he? Maybe he was proud of his name. Just because people gave him shit doesn't mean he didn't want it to be his name.
That's fair. But that just means you'll have to except that you'll endure a lot of shit in school. And likely some after that as well.