Baloo's Book Club
Baloo decides its time to have a book club that is inclusive and anti-racist. For his first book, he chooses The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. The book is her sexual empowerment. Children are welcome
In our community, our Libraries are using public spaces to discuss books which are sexual in ideology or in content, either to children or while children are present.
Friday, our library youth services (please note that it is youth services putting this on) is encouraging parents to bring children to a sexualized book club where they will read books that demean and objectify women. This isn’t liberal. It’s illiberal. The Soviet Union did something similar in the 1920’s where they had book clubs and then forced the women in attendance to have sex with any man who was there. This was so destructive to society, through disease and decreased birth rates, they actually had to stop the Free Love movement started there.1
They recommend that the Book Club members be 18 and older. The reason for this is both books they chose are graphically sexual. The discussions from the books would be sexualized and are an unavoidable portion of the book’s content and materials. However, they offer toys for the kids to play with while they sit around listening to their parents read what is essentially porn for housewives.
“Rated: High. Profanity includes 50 uses of strong language, around 100 instances of moderate profanity, around 75 uses of mild language, and 100 instances of the name of Deity in vain. There are also a number of instances of moderate profanity and the name of Deity in Spanish. Sexual content includes several detailed sex scenes. One is quite lengthy and incredibly detailed. I thought I’d gotten into a bodice-ripper novel.”2
While Rated Reads doesn’t have this book reviewed for content, it’s starts off sexualizing a woman who was an actress for decades and all her love affairs. It talks about the rape she experienced as a child and how she used her body to gain favors. It also describes her sexual experiences with her seven husbands. The book is also a bisexual and lesbian story, but doesn’t share that information with the reader before they start reading.
Parents as Teachers is hijacked in the Springfield Public Schools by a LBGT activist. Kyler Sherman leads this Story Time for 0-5 year olds. We may not be having Drag Queen Story Hours yet, but they have gotten into the system and will be advocating for that next.
Our communities are hijacked, from organizations which teach our children to our public libraries. We have allowed these people in because our Baptist and AG community members don’t want to upset the radical democrats in their own congregations. To help bring home the point of what we are facing in our community, I have wrote a satiric article about Baloo the Bear and his adventures in Inclusivity and Anti-Racism.
Baloo’s Book Club
Baloo looks at the cookies he has chosen for today’s book club. He wanted to be inclusive so he made cookies which look like female genitals. The gentle rain outside of his Library Cave is soothing. He can hear the rain drops falling down from leaf to leaf. The musical nature of the rain reminds him that he wanted to play his favorite song for the club to listen to while they discuss. He tunes his radio to play WAP by Cardi B. Realizing that he’s created the perfect balance of inclusivity and anti-racism, he waits patiently for the book club members to arrive.
After another twenty minutes, everyone has arrived. There are lots of wolves and lions at the meeting. He invited everyone to come, but those birds usually want nothing to do with fine literature and intellectual conversation. The young cubs are moving around the cave—he’s invited them along with the promises of toys. However, because of those stupid birds, he did put on the invitation that he recommended only 18+ come along and he promised no childcare. He wanted the kids to be close by when they heard from today’s book.
One of the wolves, a young woman, with six pups talked about how empowering it was when Monique described Evelyn. “No ass, no hips–just huge boobs on a slim frame. I have basically been working my entire adult life for a body like that.”3 Her young daughters looked up and asked the wolf mother if they should grow up to be slim like Evelyn. She tells them it's good to use your body to get men to do what you want.
A lioness speaks up and says how she enjoyed the description of Evelyn using her naked body to gain fame in movies. “...in which she writhes, reverse-cowboy style, on top of Don Adler, you see her full breasts for less than three seconds.”4 When her cubs ask about it, she just hands them a cookie and tells them, “When you grow up, you can do OnlyFans and get men to pay you anything you want.” Her daughter eats the cookie.
Baloo leads the discussion to talk about the rape scene in chapter six and how it started Evelyn on the path towards realizing she could trade her body for material things. The other book club members speak up and comment how they wish they were so brave. Baloo encourages them to remember they are in charge of their destiny and that it is empowering to use sexuality to control those around them—especially men.
The kids sit playing with their toys during the discussion, but you can tell some are listening. This makes Baloo happy because he realizes he can help them grow up to be fully realized people–they will know that sex exists to gain possessions and that it is okay if someone uses their body as long as there is a trade for it. The book club closes for the day with a promise to speak about the steamier parts of the novel next time. As they all leave his Library Cave, Baloo eats the rest of the cookies greedily.
Secret History of Sex in the USSR-Search for Truth.
Accessed on 1/9/23.
The Spanish Love Deception Romance Novel Book Review. https://ratedreads.com/the-spanish-love-deception-romance-novel-book-review/#:~:text=Sexual%20content%20includes%20several%20detailed,Spanish%20Love%20Deception%20on%20Amazon. Accessed on 1/9/23.
Reid, Taylor Jenkins. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel. Simon and Schuster, 2017. Page 10.
Reid, Taylor Jenkins. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel. Simon and Schuster, 2017. Page 16.
I'm trying to understand here. Are you upset because someone (who happens to be a member of the lgbtq community) wants to read to children?