Comments on: Assholes, actually, are all around us.

By: dew

dew — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:56:07 +0000

My southern grandma read sappy sweet romances that didn’t need hiding, but my northern grandma read murder mysteries: “the gorier the better”, heh heh. I think she hid some of her books before we visited though, so maybe mysteries weren’t all she read. I remember my northern grandma telling me a story about some guy she saw a few times a week doing her daily whatevers, and she had LUST in her eye! I was in my teens, so naturally I was squicked out, but now I think it was cool.

I was doing a visit on a really, REALLY old patient at a home, and after I was done, I told him that I’d seen a bunch of the ladies dressed up in the lobby (it was Halloween). That old man hobbled to his scooter to go check out the ladies in their costumes. He might have been old, but he was very healthy for his age, and I bet he was flirting a lot after I left, woot!

One of my favorite movie scenes is when was in Roxanne, when Steve Martin’s character told the older ladies about the horny aliens wanting to get lucky with older ladies, afterwards the ladies hurried off to the supposed alien location, just in case. I’m going to watch that again.

When I’m old, I’m going to smuggle in racy books and form an underground book club if I’m ever in a censored old folks home. I’ll give you my racy book when you take it from my cold, dead hands (with a smile on my face)!

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:11:30 +0000

When will people understand that intolerance only leads to more of the same? Whether it’s reading material, gay marriage, atheism, whatever, so long as nobody’s getting hurt, WHO CARES????

I’m a person of incredibly strong opinion, but still, who am I to tell anyone they have to think like me or believe like me? Nor do I want anyone telling me what I can or can’t read, who I can marry or what I can believe. I say live and let live.

By: Teddypig

Teddypig — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:16:21 +0000

Mark my words Kerry, You will be seeing Sarah Palin using that new PAC she just created to fund her destined presidential bid. She really is that determined and stupid.

We can only hope the Republicans actually back her again.

By: Kerry Allen

Kerry Allen — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:43:17 +0000

The smile-wink sandwich wrapped around absolutely mindboggling bullshit reminded me way too much of Sarah Palin, so I ran away screaming.

That, and I’ve been watching a lot of cheery stuff on the History Channel lately, and my initial reaction was “Oh, I guess those French peasants, slaves, Native Americans, and Jews WANTED their lot in life because they allowed it to happen,” which I thought was possibly, perhaps, maybe a little teeny bit of an overreaction, considering the topic at hand.

But, you know, PALIN. O_<

By: Jill Sorenson

Jill Sorenson — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:31:33 +0000

I agree that censorship sucks. I made a comment on that thread about how my local used book store sometimes throws out erotic romance and erotica. I hate that they’re taking my choices away. Lame!

But I don’t agree that the majority of people in the world are assholes. (insert annoying smiley here)

By: Anon76

Anon76 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:23:50 +0000

Hey, Karen

Dontcha know that is how people who know they are posting crap smooth it over. Smile Smile Smile Kiss Kiss Kiss

By: Karen Scott

Karen Scott — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:12:32 +0000

I think what irritated me the most was that her posts were splattered with fucking smileys.

People who make stupid-assed ignorant comments should never be allowed to use smileys to temper their posts. Ever.

By: Anon76

Anon76 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:03:29 +0000

You know, that whole thing just sucks.

I recieved a number of old harlequins from my husbands grandma long ago. The ladies would pass the books they bought around to their little circle, and each would include a notation in the group’s own code on the front section of the book.

If one deemed it spicey, the rest could make the decision to read it or not based on the notation. Too much cussing, same thing.

But never, ever, EVER, was the book NOT passed on, which gave the next reader the option to decide by skimming and what not.

I call elder abuse on this one. Such abuse is not only limited to the physical manisfestations, but mental as well.

By: West

West — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:11:57 +0000

Censorship just pisses me off. If you don’t like the book, then don’t read the damn book. But you don’t have the right to make that choice for anyone else. Censorship is wrong, and there are, in fact, laws against it. I don’t care if 99% of the residents there don’t like the books and don’t want them in the home. As long as there is one person who does, that person is entitled to those books.

People really are fucktards.

By: kirstensaell

kirstensaell — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:51:12 +0000

I can’t even picture my grandmother without a romance novel in her hands. She died in September at age 99 in a nursing home, and although arthritis prevented her from holding a book in her last years, she still liked to watch sexy shows on TV and she spent a lot of time in romantic daydreams.

She was unabashedly fond of heat in her books–her ratings on the inside cover always seemed to get higher the kinkier the sex was. She was a career woman, a mother, a wife and a romance reader. And my parents would have kicked and screamed and eventually moved her somewhere else if the nursing home had ever dared to dictate what she could and could not read or watch.