From: Maia Cheli-Colando <maia>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:35:28 -0700

Today's Sierra Club currents included this quote:/

/ /**"Since the election of Ronald Reagan, the nation has approached energy policy in the same ambivalent way it has approached sex education: some people think it is indispensable; others think it is none of the government's business."

 L. Wald in the New York Times
/ It seems to me that writing about teens as politically-personally empowered beings is seen as going too far. There appears to be a prevalent idea that teens can't (or shouldn't) do anything about "it"
(social/economic/environmental/racist/misogynist problems) until they are grown up... and I wonder, would a publisher who showed teens breaking /these/ rules be seen as going much too far?

It seems to me that adherence to law and "order" regardless of the rightness of that law and order is much more strongly observed than the more social taboos such as "underage" drinking, sex, etc. The which makes sense, I suppose -- sex and drinking are legal and encouraged for adults, while thinking for oneself and taking action against local/national/global "powers" are not.

Opinions? Or books that prove me wrong? (I would love to read them if they are out there!)

Maia
Received on Tue 28 Jun 2005 09:35:28 PM CDT