[bksvol-discuss] Re: Adult content, please read, please?

  • From: Nimit Kaur Gmail <kaur.nimit@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 21:49:11 -0400

Hi!  OK...............   i said I'm sorry but I never meant the way u r 
understanding it.  Maybe u should hang around with kids to understand me. Just 
joking...............  I won't post anything like that.  OK?  Hope that is 
satisfying to all!!!!!!!!!!:!!  Thanks for that.  

Sent From Nimit's iPod 5th gen using voiceover!  Please forgive and excuse my 
typing, please.?!  

On Apr 3, 2013, at 9:39 PM, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> start reading a book that is distasteful to you you stop reading it and 
> delete it. That is your choice and you have made that choice. When you ask 
> other people to censor books before you can find out that you have a distaste 
> for them, though, you are asking people to make your choices for you and to 
> take your choice away from you. There are some words that I have a distaste 
> for myself. Those words are usually racist or sexist terms or are other words 
> that display bigotry. Sometimes I actually cringe when I come across such 
> words. However, if someone tried to prevent me from encountering them I would 
> be extremely resentful. If someone else decided for me what words I should be 
> allowed to be exposed to without my having an input I would be more offended 
> than I would be if I encountered the words themselves. As long as books that 
> are marked as containing adult content are prohibited from being accessed by 
> anyone I even oppose the adult designation at all and I would remove any 
> adult designation on a book that I was proofreading. If the designation was 
> there for informational purposes only, though, then that would be a different 
> matter because you could see the designation and simply decide for yourself 
> whether to download it or not. I am not sure that such a designation is 
> necessary though. Notwithstanding miscategorization, if a book is listed in 
> the children's category and not in other categories then it should be safe to 
> assume that the book is not written for adults and if a book is not in the 
> childrens category then it should be assumed that it is written with adults 
> in mind. In any case, there is never a guarantee that you will like any book 
> before you start reading it and you should not expect that other people 
> should take responsibility for deciding that you are going to like a book or 
> not. You can read reviews. You can listen to literary discussions. You can 
> look to see what category a book is listed in. There are a number of ways to 
> get a pretty good idea of whether you will like a book before you start 
> reading it, but you will never know for sure until you actually start reading 
> it. Once you do start reading and if you decide that it is not for you then 
> you can just stop reading and you have already said that is what you do. 
> Similarly, if I run into one of those words that make me cringe I can stop 
> reading myself and I have run into them on many occasions. Guess what? It has 
> never harmed me. Sometimes I might become a bit angry or disgusted or feel 
> some other unpleasant emotion, but I have never been harmed. If you have come 
> across words that you find distasteful I expect that you might feel some kind 
> of unpleasant emotion too, but I doubt very much that you have suffered any 
> lasting harm. You just stop reading. That should be enough. Furthermore, even 
> if you are personally "protected" from certain words by other people who are 
> depriving you of your right to make your own decisions about what to read it 
> so happens that other people your age or younger are deprived at the same 
> time. So even if you maintain the right to relinquish your own power of 
> personal decision making then do you really have the right to ask that it be 
> taken away from others of your age. I would say that your best move is to 
> just continue to make your own decisions about what to read and don't ask 
> that your choices nor anyone else's choices be censored.
> On 4/3/2013 4:43 PM, Nimit Kaur wrote:
>> OK.  Sorry then.  I mean, then think about the words that you hear a
>> beap in the movies or  shows when it is being said.  I hope I am not
>> forced to write some here.  I won't and I hope I am not forced.  I
>> mean, I really don't want to and I know not to.  So, yeah, think about
>> the words that won't be writen in the kids' books or like the words or
>> actions, sometimes that are not in the movies rated excluding minors
>> such as PG or R or I can't think of more yet.  Sorry if I was wrong.
>> Thank you............
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/3/13, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> #
>>> I cannot think of a single word I have ever read or heard in my whole
>>> life that I would not want a minor to hear or read.
>>> On 4/3/2013 4:24 PM, Nimit Kaur wrote:
>>>> Dear all Bookshare volunteers,
>>>> 
>>>> I am emailing to sincerely request all scanners to label the book
>>>> adult content checkbox if it is, please?  Remember, the books you are
>>>> going to add to the collection will also pop up even if the minors
>>>> search in the collection when you don't label it if it is adult
>>>> content.  i have seen many books either in the collection and in my
>>>> account preferences, the books that contain adult content has been
>>>> blocked or whatever that setting does, but because many people are not
>>>> labeling it, I have mistakenly downloaded and deleted the book because
>>>> I can't read them yet.  I sincerely ask all scanners on behalf of all
>>>> the minors to please please please please please please please to
>>>> check the box that says "adult content" if it is when you submit the
>>>> book, please?  I mean, I have downloaded many books mistakenly that
>>>> are not properly stated adult content either for proofing or reading
>>>> for bookshare.  Please understand my situation.  I am sorry if I was
>>>> too much, but I am just trying to ask everyone scanners as sincerely
>>>> and politely as I can to please please label the adult content if your
>>>> book is and if you don't know what adult content means, then, it is
>>>> like when there are words in the book that you don't want any minor in
>>>> your life to hear.  Think of it as your own children, if you have or
>>>> if you don't, think of it as minors in your lives that you care about
>>>> and think about the things you really don't want them to read and the
>>>> words you want them to avoid.  You know?  I hope that makes sense.
>>>> Think of somethings that schools won't allow the students to do or
>>>> think of things that might be rated pg or r or whatever rating movies
>>>> have to state that minors should not watch it.  Kids my age hear
>>>> everything, but I am speaking for minors that should not read it or
>>>> even children.  I hope this makes sense.  Thank you for reading and
>>>> understanding.
>>>> 
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Nimit, a bookshare student member and a future advicate for all
>>>> visually impaired students hopefully
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