Call me a radical iconoclast, but I think this is ridiculous and that the people involved have serious control and sexual issues.
It’s rare to hear the word “scrotum,” in polite conversation. Seeing it on the first page of a children’s book has some parents and teachers up in arms.
On the first page of The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, this year’s recipient of the Newbery Medal, Lucky Trimble, a scrappy ten-year-old orphan, hears the word through a hole in the wall. This happens when another character s explaining that a rattlesnake bit his dog on the scrotum.
Some school librarians, after hearing about the word being in The Higher Power of Lucky,” have vowed to ban the book from their libraries. This has reopened the debate over what is acceptable for children to read.
Are they serious? Are we truly reduced to debating the use of the word “scrotum” in a children’s book?
Maybe they should all get the ‘sack’ over there … what an odd bunch of people.
Sorry if I offend..
But, I do believe in the idea, IF they ask, ANSWER…
If they dont get the answer, they will look other places for it..
And its easier to tell them when they are young, and MAY(probably not) put some pieces together, and KNOW…then to leave them in the wind, wondering..
Maybe if she used “balls” instead of scrotum there wouldn’t be such uproar. That’s how twisted the minds of these people are.
I just did a test with my 4 year old boy. I asked him if he knew what a scrotum was, and of course, he didn’t. I then explained it to him, and you know what happened?
Not a god damn thing. He continued playing with his game. His head didn’t explode, he hasn’t expressed a desire to become a porn star nor a serial killer, and he didn’t even get a giggle out of it.
People are morons.
Grief
After reading the passage it was clear to me that it was the snakes fault. In the next book it is rumored that the snake convinces the protagonist to bite into an apple. The subsequent act causes all hell to break loose.
maybe since they don’t like to talk about it they need theirs cut off. /rant
Tim Allen says any woman who ever saw her husband or boyfriend bend over before getting into the tub has probably noticed the resemblance to elbow skin. He says elbow skin is made out of leftover scrotum.
That’s what to tell the kids. Not all those nasty facts.
In one of Roald Dahl’s books, “schnozberries” is used to refer to the same part of the anatomy.
Roald Dahl is considered one of the best children’s writers of the 20th century.
So is this hypocritical? You decide.
Dont call them Mor On’s…they are Mor Off, then most.
Much ado about correct terminology for body parts. Oh, what shall we do??? I rather think that the complainers (or rather 99% of them) have not even read the book. Why can’t we figure out a way to keep these idiots from breeding, and if not that, keep them from running libraries?
Maybe someone wishes to explain to the complainers the dual meaning of “assholes”.
The book also contained references to witchcraft and condoms, but I don’t think it should be banned. I wasn’t offended by the use of the word “scrotum” and feel that it was used correctly.
Maybe he should have said Tea Bag
Good Grief!!! There are far less polite words for the word “scrotum” most of which children know already. If anything, they have no idea what a “scrotum” is because they have been desensitized by everything else.
PEOPLE THIS ISN’T THE FIFTIES, ANYMORE. Did anyone not learn anything from Ulysess??? You’re supposed to read the whole damn book, and not just the first page.