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Raising Pg Kids in X-Rated Society

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This book is, in a word, ludicrous. Attacking everything from Dungeons and Dragons to the "vile music of our society", good old Tipper manages to paint a picture of misinformation in the guise of "preserving family values". Avoid at ALL costs.

This is just an over protective mom with no creditials writing what she feels. It goes to link a man falling off bleachers and dying to violent lyrics in music? Sorry lady, people slip and fall sometimes. She continually condemns bands such as Def Leppard and Motely Crue for all of societal evils. The books seems to make the assumption that violence would not even exist if rock and roll were not around. This book is only good for research purposes to prove how wrong it is.

First of all, I cackle at the reader who gave this five stars and heralded Tipper Gore as a "brave woman" who wrote this book as an "act of love towards today's youth". Tipper Gore went to a Greateful Dead concert and hung out photo-op style with Jerry Garcia while drug agents busted many people for acid at the same concert. Hillary Rodham Clinton called this book "good information" for parents. In the back of the book there is a plug for the Back In Control Center in LA. Back In Control advocate that black clothing and high top tennis shoes are signs of devil worship. Other signs of devil worship included the peace sign and the JEWISH STAR OF DAVID. Tipper called Back In Control "a family center...who helps people who are deeply involved with punk rock and heavy metal." This is a book of ignorance which brainwashes parents into thinking that music that makes any kind of political statement is a sign of devil worship and should certainly be avoided. As an advocate for the Censorship Movement, this book is a fine piece of anti-intellectualism and anti-individualism which promotes not thinking about anything...at all. After all, happiness IS the enemy of thought.

For more information on this book, check out "President McMuffin Tightens The Screws" by Jello Biafra (of which I credit with most of this review)

If there's one thing that makes a southern belle like Tipper Gore nervous, it's the endless throbbing of the drums from the slave quarters on a hot, still southern night.

That pretty much sums up the real source of Tipper's discomfort with so-called "obscene" rap music.

The irony is, this southern politician's wife is so completely obtuse, so tone-deaf, so just plain cotton-pickin' stupid that she still has NO IDEA why ghetto blacks would resent a patrician white woman (with a cornpone accent a yard long) lecturing them on "justice" and "decency." Tipper Gore really, really doesn't understand that when she tells Ice T to clean up his act she sounds just like her grandmother complaining about those low-down, shiftless darkies -- and those drums. Always those drums, from the slave quarters late at night.

Notice that Tipper's ideas about how art corrupts could be applied to books and poetry as well as to popular music. For example, one could argue that a beloved southern novel like GONE WITH THE WIND, with its images of sub-human darkies and benign slave owners, does at least as much harm as the worst of gangsta rap. One set of lies begets another set of lies. Hate makes hate. But this kind of insight is far beyond Tipper Gore, who finds no need to examine her own conscience or the dark side of her own heritage. All she wants to do is silence those drums -- those awful, throbbing drums.

Dear Mrs.Gore, I feel that you and the other ladies of congress were wrong to impose labels on music because of content! If you have not noticed we live in a secular society full of all kinds of awful things! I feel it should be up to the individual/parent as to what we listen too! I don't advocate the use of pornographic material or the bad use of jesus or God's name,but I don't have a problem with lesser curse words! How many movies have you watched that have sex scenes,nudity or profanity against our lord? What makes you so righteous to judge content for other people? Granted there is some bad music/movies/games out there,but you used your husbands position to further your agenda favoring parental labels on all music that doesn't meet your so called standard miss goody-to-shoes. You violated our constitutional right to freedom of speech! Lets step on another constitutional right while were at it! America is not we the people anymore it's we the government! I don't suspect you will ever read this,but I spoke my peace!

Hillery T. Watkins

I agree that this book was well written and that Ms. "OMG! OUR KIDS ARE GOING TO DIE" Gore (coincidence on the last name?) found a lot of research, but she made so many stupid assumptions that I can't begin to understand why a parent would even start to believe this! I am a teenager and I do know the difference between right and wrong. Just because Mrs. Gore doesn't belive that we have commone sense doesn't mean she's right!!!
Parents, if you really don't trust your child's judgement (being that they're going to listen to a sad song about suicide and look up the words and find that the artist is telling them to kill themselves and you believe they'll do it) you need to look at yourselves. We learn most of our habits and beliefs from you. So, if we screw up, so did you. Don't assume that just because we are adolecent we're idiots.

So.... Parents who read this book and agreed with it completely, I wish you luck in making your arguments to your children about how they can't go to Ozzy Osbourne concerts because are bad because Johnny fell off the bleachers and died.

But, Kids who are looking for a really good persuasive essay and really like rock music, read the book. It's good information to argue with and if you're like me, you might even end up yelling at Tipper Gore for being such an idiot.

The most notable feature of this book was a chapter concerning Dungeons and Dragons. It states that there are more than 50 suicides per year because of it (????), and that it is satanic. I have experience with D&D and it is nothing of the sort

The content of this book makes no sense. I could hardly finish it. The droll opinions make absolutely no sense. Parents, watch out for the star of david. A jewish religious symbol is your ticket to heck. I censored that one just for you Tipper. Tipper Gore is an off her nut radical and needs to simply be quiet and sit down. ROCK OUT CENSORSHIP!!

Im never suprised by what right wing fundamentalists will come up with next...There's often a string of ideas that are put together to form a belief system, but with this you dont even get that. It's a confusing read that seems to contradict itself...concerned with a way to raise your kids "the good way"... this is more of a list of how to find "every nasty thing society has ever produced" viewed by an artistically devoid and philosophically empty mind set. To me this seems like the sort of thing the SPANISH INQUISITION would be proud of touting about than a genuinely open minded aproach to parenting. Living in Europe Im removed from the blinkered media that exists in the US so can understand how someone could be allowed to release this as a viable parenting guide. Bordering on the edge of racism and blatant bigotist philosophy I feel that this book is a warning sign that shows that the people in power in the US are as removed from society as you could possibly get. This is more than out of touch. If you need this as a guide to parenting then you have failed in life due to the fact you have been sitting in a glass container for too many years.

I should specify. I read this book four years ago after I heard about it from Jello Biafra, perhaps the most knowledgable source and victim of Tipper Gore's autocracy. I often feal that I have trouble finding new points to talk about as a political activist and speaker but his are just so shocking and therefore to my taste. If he has tried to point anything out through his spoken word albums and countless speaches (which belive me he has), his highlight would have to have been the energy he put into exposing Tipper's connections with the Religious Right. Phyliph Schalfly of the Eagle Forrum has stated being inspired by Tipper when Tipper spoke at one of the Eagle Forrum's functions ,these functions promoting that woman's place is the home, and tipper has worked with Joe Lieberman who has held six senate commities against rock and rap vs. Tipper's husband Gore's petty two. It is also widely acknowledged that the PMRC (Tipper's action group) sends its information out to people through mail-order christian and televangelist packages. Another reviewer has spoken about the Back in Control center so I don't think I need to continue with that but to sum this up, it is obvious that 'Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society' (gee what a creative title) is not the radical ideology and protection based book it claims to be, but works as a soap box for the Religious Right of America. I cannot tell you, furthermore how shocked I was to find that it may have caused complications to print this review four years ago when I read the book (I'm 16 now) makes me skeptical of the book's influence on major corporations like Amazone and whether they my be taking some of what Tipper says about out of control children to heart. To any concerned parent who would question my sanity after exposure unfiltered sex and violence, I would encourage them to come to my house, let me cook them dinner, discuss the issues Tipper fails to address properly in her book with me, and then invite them to hang out with my racialy and sexualy diverse friends while we engage in one of my favourite activities of the day: Discussing philosophy, poetry (often musical), religion, and American foreign policy over the low hum of music by the Dead Kennedies, Anti-Flag, Rammstein, Alexisonfire, Death by Stereo, Led Zeplin, and Pink Floyd. I would then challenge my guests to portray me and my friends as deranged psychopathic killers as opposed to modern day thinkers of truth and wisdom. Personnaly, I think Hobbes would have been proud.