Inappropriate

Im am very angry about this idea of appropriateness. IT MAKES ME REALLY REALLY REALLY MAD!!!!!! The whole idea that something that we are reading for a class isn't appropriate for school. I AM EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD. I am legally an adult. These things are out there anyway, why cant we read about them in the safe environment of school?? I feel as though it is inappropriate not to let us read them. Teachers aren't showing us these books or whatever it may be and saying go do this be just like that. We are reading for educational value and to be taught life lessons and ideas. In English a little while ago we read Sula. In that book there were plenty of scenes that I wouldn't even call suggestive. They were so blatantly out there that it was almost reading soft-core porn. It is a little ridiculous to me that we are seen as so impressionable that reading a book will somehow damage us in unforeseeable ways and ultimately destroy our live. THIS IS RIDICULOUS. I AM FURIOUS. That is just my opinion.



An exerpt from Sula that had been deemed appropriate for school, to have students read ,and be taught..

"He liked for her to mount him so he could see her towering above him and call soft obscenities up into her face.. As she was rocking, swaying, she focused her thoughts to bar the creeping disorder that was flooding her hips. She looked down, down from what seemed an awful height at the head of a man whose lemon yellow gabardines had been the first sexual excitement she'd ever known... The height and the swaying dizzied her, so she bent down and let her breasts grave his chest... She slipped her hands under his armpits, for it seemed as though she would not be able to dam the spread of weakness she felt under her skin without holding onto something.. He swallowed her mouth just as her thighs had swallowed his genitals." - Sula p. 129-130

How's that for suggestive?