Post by galactapuss on Jul 8, 2010 14:03:33 GMT -8
www.nwfdailynews.com/news/crestview-30688-manga-mom.html
The mother claims her son lost his mind and needed extensive therapy at a home after reading manga at their local library.
Having read the article...
The library has one section of manga in the children/young adult area and one section of manga in the general/adult area. The boy stole (did not check out) manga from the general area. The boy is now in a home for extensive therapy. The mother has kept the book as evidence.
Galactapuss Reacts
So...The mother is upset because her son stole a book with naughty material, but it turns out her son is a thief and, since she refuses to return the book, she's a thief too.
Having had somewhat...extensive experience residing with severely emotionally disturbed people, I can say that It's very unlikely that the boy was otherwise normal and problem-free, then institutionalized based solely on reading manga. It could be that the mother over-reacted (saw your uncle's Playboy?, time to have you committed) or a more likely scenario is that the boy has other problems and this is the particular incident that gave the mother an excuse to have him institutionalized, in a way that would give her someone to blame other than her son, herself, or random chance.
In the pre-internet era (yeah, yeah, ARPANET, etc. aside) kids would sometimes catch their parents...engaged...or stumble across their uncle's Playboy or something. It wasn't a big deal, certainly not something that would require in-patient psychological care, at least not for kids that didn't already have a host of other problems.
The article does not cite the particular manga issue...
Called the library, spoke to their director...It was Gantz Volume 1. Director says there's only 3 scenes of that sort in that issue, so it doesn't sound like we're talking about slashfic.
Hm...Does anyone have Gantz Volume 1? I'd like to have a look at it. Nestor05?
Another thought...Would anyone be interested in putting together a box of our surplus/unused/donate-able manga? I'd be happy to mail it to the library.
The mother claims her son lost his mind and needed extensive therapy at a home after reading manga at their local library.
Having read the article...
The library has one section of manga in the children/young adult area and one section of manga in the general/adult area. The boy stole (did not check out) manga from the general area. The boy is now in a home for extensive therapy. The mother has kept the book as evidence.
Galactapuss Reacts
So...The mother is upset because her son stole a book with naughty material, but it turns out her son is a thief and, since she refuses to return the book, she's a thief too.
Having had somewhat...extensive experience residing with severely emotionally disturbed people, I can say that It's very unlikely that the boy was otherwise normal and problem-free, then institutionalized based solely on reading manga. It could be that the mother over-reacted (saw your uncle's Playboy?, time to have you committed) or a more likely scenario is that the boy has other problems and this is the particular incident that gave the mother an excuse to have him institutionalized, in a way that would give her someone to blame other than her son, herself, or random chance.
In the pre-internet era (yeah, yeah, ARPANET, etc. aside) kids would sometimes catch their parents...engaged...or stumble across their uncle's Playboy or something. It wasn't a big deal, certainly not something that would require in-patient psychological care, at least not for kids that didn't already have a host of other problems.
The article does not cite the particular manga issue...
Called the library, spoke to their director...It was Gantz Volume 1. Director says there's only 3 scenes of that sort in that issue, so it doesn't sound like we're talking about slashfic.
Hm...Does anyone have Gantz Volume 1? I'd like to have a look at it. Nestor05?
Another thought...Would anyone be interested in putting together a box of our surplus/unused/donate-able manga? I'd be happy to mail it to the library.
