MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 1883

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Re: Thank you/Reading
	by Lynne Walker <ladystarlight_98-+AT+-yahoo.com>
  2) Re: hey i'm a newbie
	by Lisa Holcomb <awamiba-+AT+-yahoo.com>
  3) Re: hey i'm a newbie
	by SachiAiko-+AT+-aol.com

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 08:44:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Lynne Walker <ladystarlight_98-+AT+-yahoo.com>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: Thank you/Reading
Message-ID: <19990221164420.25002.rocketmail-+AT+-send202.yahoomail.com>

Hello all,

More of my $.02 on the Great Reading Debate <g>.

---Li'nia Stormdancer <lstormdancer-+AT+-hotmail.com> wrote:
> Second, I know I wrote something a few days ago about youngsters
reading 
> Misty's books.  The problem that I think a lot of people have is that 
> they don't understand that kids nowadays are learning things at a
much 
> younger age than we did.  I didn't hear about AIDS and stuff until I
was 
> in high school; kids now learn about it in elementary.  These days, 
> homosexuality, AIDS, drugs, bloodshed, and other subject that we
think 
> aren't suitable for young kids have already been taught to them by a 
> very hard teacher: life.  So, I think that Misty's books can be read
by 
> anyone who has an interest in them. 

IMNSHO, and also speaking as a parent, there is a difference between
age-appropriate teachings about "dicey" subjects (AIDS, homosexuality,
& child abuse <PLEASE NOTE:  I am NOT lumping all these topics
together to imply homosexuality is on the same level as child abuse or
that AIDS is a punishment.  Simply that younger children can SOMETIMES
be very confused about that world view.  End of explanation>) and
graphic depictions of violence, sex & abuse.  While some kids can
handle that stuff early on, some can't.  Granted, Misty's stuff is
probably not as bad as some stuff out there (both in RL & fiction),
why would we want to give it to young children?  There is a difference
between censorship & guidance.  Would you let a 10-year old watch an
NC-17 movie? or even a PG-13 movie?  or give him/her a copy of Hustler
magazine?  It's all a matter of degrees. 
Gets off soapbox.

WTTW,
Lady Starlight
(soon to be hopefully) Goddess of Masques
==
I'm a bitch/I'm a lover
I'm a child/I'm a mother
I'm a sinner/I'm a saint
I do not feel ashamed
"Bitch" - Merideth Brooks


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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 12:17:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Lisa Holcomb <awamiba-+AT+-yahoo.com>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: hey i'm a newbie
Message-ID: <19990221201741.5848.rocketmail-+AT+-web512.mail.yahoo.com>

Ok, I'm another newbie...

name's lisa...been reading these lovely books since 1992, two years
after i had a dream featuring the front cover of "arrows of the queen"
which i had never seen before....

what's an "obmisty?"


==
Lisa Holcomb
awamiba-+AT+-yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Arc/5894

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:28:56 EST
From: SachiAiko-+AT+-aol.com
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: hey i'm a newbie
Message-ID: <47ea96c3.36d0c0e8-+AT+-aol.com>

:delurks to greet Lisa...walking very quietly up behind her (quietly for a
dragon) and tapping her gently on the shoulder::
Hello. I'm Snow. Welcome to the list ::hands you a fluffy white sheep shaped
towel:: We nice peoples. jes have to get used to us :)

::morphs into a human and gives Lisa a hug then turns back into the white
dragon slinking quietly back into lurkdom::

Fozen marshmallow sheep to all! 
Snow
Daughter of everything unbelievably cold.
"Lead. Follow. Or get outa my flight-path!" -- Keman (Or maybe it was the old
shaman dragon who said it... Anyone know? i fergot)

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