Um. I realize this is somewhat off topic, but why does Amanda still have a cropped image of her original (racist, offensive) book cover as part of the banner for her blog? Unbelievable.

Love may be fleeting, but pure crap lasts forever.

I actually collect cooking and other "Women's" books from back in the dark ages. I generally find them funny, but they're kind of freakish when printed in the present. Some of those housekeeping type magazines do it too, but I don't think they are quite able to match the nauseating Abstinence rag that's being referenced here!

This is me being biased, so feel free to ignore it...

...but as a fiction writer and aspiring professional author, I am extremely offended by the second excerpt from the 1951 manual.

If I were the sort of douche who believed that abstinence-only education was best, I would probably write off the handbook and magazine in question just for that bit of super-douchebaggery.

Shadowen, I agree.

You could argue in theory that fiction writers are putting their daydreams down on paper, but the way they say is just so fucking condescending.

I mean, yeah, most of the fiction I've written - also, ideas I've had, started, and later neglected - have been born from various forms of daydreaming.

But it takes talent to turn a 30-second daydream into a 300-page novel (or 2-hour script, or whatever). It takes more than a "knack of writing out his daydreams in an interesting style so as to hold the attention of the reader." My response is sort of, fuck you, fiction writing is hard.

Besides, wtf is wrong with daydreaming?

Not to mention the hypocrisy of this particular book expounding against fiction. Since that's pretty much what it is.

So!

I made the mistake on clicking on the link for the magazine, and then looking inside the magazine and read this on the first page:

"After hearing a camp counselor share how wonderful it was to give herself as a wedding gift to her husband, I was positive I wanted my wedding night to be as
amazing as hers."

GAH! There are no words for how creepy that is.

So women are gifts?! I mean, *gah* just... *gah*

*strangling sound as attempts to articulate extreme disgust*

I think many of you, and the writers who wrote this crap, don't give teenagers enough credit. Most teenagers have a good bullshit radar. Read their "date suggestions". This includes things like "go to the arcade"...do arcades even exist anymore ? Maybe in the lobby's of large cineplexes...but why anyone would want to spend time in that kind of noisy environment is beyond me...and I think most teenagers as well.