Because even if you know intellectually that kids aren't necessarily going to be sucked into the maw of evil wrongthinking simply by reading a book, it's hard to let go of the desire to protect your spawn from even knowing about things you think are evil wrongthinking.
Heh. I would be more on board with this explanation if more of the internet fuss were about One's Own Spawn. Instead, it seems to be about Everyone Else's Spawn.
There are quite a many young women these days who are from mainstream (read: not crazy religious kooks) households who obsess about getting married and having babies, to the point where they don't think critically about the traits of a suitable male partner.
This was always so. And it was normative and encouraged until about thirty-forty years ago. And, hell, if you look at people's dating habits during high school and for many, through the rest of their lives, still is so.
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Heh. I would be more on board with this explanation if more of the internet fuss were about One's Own Spawn. Instead, it seems to be about Everyone Else's Spawn.
There are quite a many young women these days who are from mainstream (read: not crazy religious kooks) households who obsess about getting married and having babies, to the point where they don't think critically about the traits of a suitable male partner.
This was always so. And it was normative and encouraged until about thirty-forty years ago. And, hell, if you look at people's dating habits during high school and for many, through the rest of their lives, still is so.