Brain Molesters Spend $40,000 to Assign Smutty Comics to College Freshmen

Posted on | August 4, 2013 | 49 Comments

Kids nowadays don’t believe an old geezer when he says, “Y’know, when I was a college freshman, we had to buy our own smutty comics!”

Faculty and administrators at the College of Charleston (CofC) have assigned all freshman students a graphic sex memoir as part of their mandatory 2013 summer reading.
The College of Charleston has come under fire after assigning a graphic memoir as part of their mandatory summer reading for all incoming freshman.
The controversial book entitled, “Fun Home,” includes an account of author Alison Bechdel’s closeted gay father’s trial over his sexual relationships with young boys, her coming out as a lesbian, and commentary on masturbation and her first sexual relationship with a woman.
The book, which was apparently selected by a committee of faculty, administrators, and students, cost the school $39k for distribution to 4k freshmen, according to a local newspaper, the Post and Courier. The school also plans to pay the book’s author $13k to make a speech in October.

For crying out loud, why not just tell the kids to Google “lesbian cartoon”? I’m sure they’d find lots of educational material that way. That’s what’s wrong with these young whippersnappers — ain’t got enough gumption to find porn by themselves, so they need to have it assigned to them as required reading in college! Oh, but it’s not about pornography, it’s about diversity and stuff:

College of Charleston Provost George Hynd said the school isn’t considering changing the book selection. The college strives to be a diverse and safe place for all students, and to teach students to listen to each other and engage in respectful conversation. The book is consistent with those goals, he said.
Associate Provost Lynne Ford said the book was selected by a committee made up of faculty members, administrators, staff and students. The group solicits recommendations for books from the campus community and the public.
She thinks the book is especially appropriate for freshmen because it deals with questions of identity, including, “Who am I and how do I fit in?”
“The book,” she said, “will help students to learn that they are not unique. Our experience is shared by millions.”

In order for a college “to be a diverse and safe place for all students,” you have to spend $40,000 to provide freshmen with a perverted comic book? Campuses that don’t do this are unsafe? Whereas the College of Charleston, where “faculty members, administrators, staff and students” think this comic book makes sense as assigned reading for freshmen, yeah, that’s perfectly safe.

I’m not sure what the official motto of the College of Charleston is. Probably the Latin phrase for “Wanna look at some dirty pictures?”

(Hat-tip: Daily Caller.)

Category: Education

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49 Responses to “Brain Molesters Spend $40,000 to Assign Smutty Comics to College Freshmen”

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August 4th, 2013 @ 7:54 pm

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August 4th, 2013 @ 7:54 pm

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rsmccain
August 4th, 2013 @ 7:56 pm

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rsmccain
August 4th, 2013 @ 7:57 pm

“Y’know, when I was a college freshman, we had to buy our own smutty comics!” http://t.co/Rs9Anile4R | @vermontaigne @instapundit
BobBelvedere
August 4th, 2013 @ 7:59 pm

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moderncomments
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:00 pm

RT @rsmccain: “Y’know, when I was a college freshman, we had to buy our own smutty comics!” http://t.co/Rs9Anile4R | @vermontaigne @instapu…
tiffanyrose116
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:00 pm

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Bob Belvedere
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:04 pm

Alison and Rachel Madcow, separated at birth???…

http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Alison-Bechdel-photo-credit-Elena-Seibert.jpg
preciseBlogs
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:04 pm

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thatMrGguy
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:04 pm

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Bob Belvedere
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:05 pm

She looka likea man.

http://fashionfailures.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/missswan.jpg
Mike G.
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:05 pm

Okay…where’s the brain bleach? You know there’s a law against stuff like this!
BobBelvedere
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:05 pm

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robertstacymccain
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:07 pm

You could hire Charles Carreon to sue him.
Charles G. Hill
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:07 pm

Since you asked: Sapientia ipsa Libertas / Ædes Mores Juraque Curat “Knowledge itself is liberty.” / “[This] shrine cares for traditions and laws.”
vermontaigne
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:09 pm

RT @rsmccain: “Y’know, when I was a college freshman, we had to buy our own smutty comics!” http://t.co/RzjeogwqlI | Smut Studies major
rsmccain
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:12 pm

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Mike G.
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:17 pm

I’d rather hire Ken White. At least I’d have a chance of winning then. 😉
robertstacymccain
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:28 pm

Kinda gone downhill, ain’t they?
Charles G. Hill
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:32 pm

Last time I set foot on campus was 1969, and then only because I was going to high school just up the street.
Steve Skubinna
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:35 pm

“…sexual relationships with young boys.”

Right. Because pedophilia is nothing more than a lifestyle choice. And who are we to judge, yada yada yada…
lonelycon
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:38 pm

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concern00
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:42 pm

…and she turned out perfectly well, didn’t she?
Evi L. Bloggerlady
August 4th, 2013 @ 8:43 pm

I am not sure which is more obscene: The reading selection or the tuition!
Evi L. Bloggerlady
August 4th, 2013 @ 9:14 pm

He has a conflict of interest: They are both Bat Shit Crazy (Defendant and Plaintiff’s Lawyer)
RS
August 4th, 2013 @ 9:17 pm

“The book,” she said, “will help students to learn that they are not unique. Our experience is shared by millions.”

So, instead of pursuing virtue, our universities see fit to celebrate the most f-ed up family imaginable and make paying students join the party. The use of the first perso plural possessive tells us all we need to know about the faculty and administration of the CofC.
instapundit
August 4th, 2013 @ 9:33 pm

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herddog505
August 4th, 2013 @ 9:43 pm

I realize that just about any book is going to have SOMEBODY shrieking, but would it kill these intellectual ivory-tower pinheads to at least assign some classics if they want to make a splash? What does this “graphic novel” have to say that, oh, Huckleberry Finn or Catcher in the Rye or some other actual classic – hell, actual BOOK – doesn’t???

Or are the college freshmen these days so damned dumb that they have to be given comic books to read because anything without pictures is incomprehensible to them?

And I must say that the bit about the book “help[ing] students to learn that they are not unique”, it seems to me, will cause more trouble than it will solve: “HOLY SH*T!!! You mean to say that there are people like this on this campus??? How can I get another lock installed on my dorm room door?”
CattyPatriot
August 4th, 2013 @ 9:46 pm

“@lonelycon: http://t.co/Mu6oMoF3u4” “The book,” she said, “will help students to learn that they are not unique.” Just part of the masses..
robertstacymccain
August 4th, 2013 @ 10:16 pm

Elvis Costello, with a vagina.
Finrod Felagund
August 5th, 2013 @ 1:31 am

Did anyone else notice the biased ‘poll’ the Post & Courier was running with that article?

Should private groups be able to influence college required reading lists?

Why didn’t they just go all the way and poll ‘Do you support bookburning?’, I wonder.
Finrod Felagund
August 5th, 2013 @ 1:35 am

My freshman year of college, I took a course on CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien– which meant I got to buy Lord of the Rings as a college textbook. Win!
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August 5th, 2013 @ 3:23 am

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rsmccain
August 5th, 2013 @ 6:33 am

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Dandapani
August 5th, 2013 @ 6:36 am

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Bob Belvedere
August 5th, 2013 @ 8:40 am

As an admirer of Jeff Goldstein, you understand that I’m an OUTLAW.
Bob Belvedere
August 5th, 2013 @ 8:40 am

Neurotic with a fear of men, more like.
Silent Cal
August 5th, 2013 @ 8:42 am

FUN HOME is a really brilliant book, and has a lot of ambiguity about gay issues that are surprising. It’s well worth reading, whatever your views on homosexuality, because it incorporates some issues that social cons talk about only to be dismissed by the gay community. Bechdel hasn’t written a rah-rah book. She does a lot of questioning of her and her father’s identity, and her reactions to what she learns about him. She finds a picture that her father kept of one of his young possible lovers, for example, and questions why she doesn’t feel the outrage she would feel if he’d been attracted to teenage girls. Pedophilia comes up when her little brother goes for a walk on what are then notorious cruising grounds, and Bechdel’s father (himself predatory to teen boys) goes to a frantic rescue.

It gives an inside perspective on gay issues, to be sure, but it’s a deeply personal and human story. Hard-core social cons should read it. It’s good and damned interesting.
Bob Belvedere
August 5th, 2013 @ 8:44 am

This whole ‘they are not unique’ angle is interesting because the incoming kids all have been told their whole lives that they’re ‘special’ [self-esteem and all that jazz].

Our American freshmen are, indeed, special – in the old sense of ‘don’t make fun of Stevie, son, he’s “special”‘.
Bob Belvedere
August 5th, 2013 @ 8:48 am

It has no place in a college setting, first of all.

Second, her Father is a criminal of the worst kind. That she has any sympathy for him is perverse.

Frankly I don’t give a good Goddamn if she gives socons a fair hearing, she is a deviant.
rmnixondeceased
August 5th, 2013 @ 9:00 am

A symbol of all that is just flat wrong with our educational system and society. Mala Fides indeed.
RMNixonDeceased
August 5th, 2013 @ 9:00 am

“It has no place in a college setting, first of all…” — Bob Belvedere http://t.co/o1IuURGrFm
rmnixondeceased
August 5th, 2013 @ 9:05 am

The vagina is in question … it may never have existed or been surgically altered. Whatever the case may be, I will not volunteer to find out …
RMNixonDeceased
August 5th, 2013 @ 9:05 am

“The vagina is in question … it may never have existed or been surgically altered. Whatever the…” — rmnixondeceased http://t.co/fEKxzmVA27
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Patrick Carroll
August 5th, 2013 @ 4:32 pm

I pass an ad for the CoC every day. It’s on I-85 south, just inside the perimeter.

It reads something along the lines of “Study in Paradise.”
Alessandra
August 8th, 2013 @ 12:33 pm

An increasing number of Americans have an insatiable appetite for deformed sexualities – which they must normalize by all means possible. At the same time, anyone promoting a wholesome approach to sexuality gets vilified and censored, especially in academic circles (aside from the media, and any space controlled by liberals or blogs that are “Christian” but have swallowed the lie that homosexuals are just nice people who are persecuted and marginalized by the evil conservatives). I have been banned from commenting in a few of these “christian” or “conservative” blogs.