And, on asking more deeply, it comes about that it isn't The Word that's offensive, but the fact that The Word appears on the front page of Baen, thereby sullying its honor forever, and endangering countless numbers of innocents, who are in no way used to "sexually explicit" content in their web browsing experiences. (1: In what way is "blowjob" sexually explicit to someone who doesn't know what the word means? 2: Where are the CNoI getting this danger-free browsing experience?)
It would be fine, if The Word appeared on Some Other Page; mine correspondent liked the story, or at least didn't find anything offensive, except the placement of The Word, of course, and that there was a hint of pedophilia, which wasn't something they would expect the children to have to read about either, or at least not on front pages of websites, and certainly not on the Baen site, which was a place previously considered safe for children, but now it's a hotbed of Bad Words and will have to be monitored and innocence, O! Innocence! is dead.
. . .or something.
It's kind of ironical that this tempest forms above a story about the rescue of a child in terrible circumstances.
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Date: 2014-12-22 01:11 pm (UTC)It would be fine, if The Word appeared on Some Other Page; mine correspondent liked the story, or at least didn't find anything offensive, except the placement of The Word, of course, and that there was a hint of pedophilia, which wasn't something they would expect the children to have to read about either, or at least not on front pages of websites, and certainly not on the Baen site, which was a place previously considered safe for children, but now it's a hotbed of Bad Words and will have to be monitored and innocence, O! Innocence! is dead.
. . .or something.
It's kind of ironical that this tempest forms above a story about the rescue of a child in terrible circumstances.