SPEAK UP about SPEAK! {And an unnoficial welcome to you all.}

So.

There are many wrong, inappropriate things going on in our world.  Censorship is one of them.  A VERY wrong thing.

And in this case, very innapropriate.

Wesley Scroggins (who is an associate professor somewhere in Missouri), recently wrote an article on Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, calling it "soft pornography" on account of the rape scenes.  Which really scares me.  That fact ALONE scares me. 


The Article.

There is NO WAY IN HELL that RAPE, of all things rape, is PORN.  NO.  Just NO. 

This is what I have to say to Mr. Scroggins:  Shut your mouth, twisted asshole.  PORN is completely different than RAPE.  COMPLETELY and TOTALLY different.  Rape is a violent act, porn is something that is not.  So stop saying rape is porn.

I'm a student, and I'm in a health class where we are working with Vera House in their MVP program.  In fact, I brought this up to the woman who taught my class.  I made a point to bring it up.  Vera House works to end sexual and domestic violence, so it fit right in with what we are talking about.

Speak was quite honestly, and still is, a book I enjoy.  It brought me to tears, similar to Laurie Halse Andersons Wintergirls.  It is one of the most important novels anyone, male or female, can ever read.  It's non-gender discrimanatory.  Not in the least.  The protagonist, Melinda Sorino, is a freshman in High School who is silent (hence the title SPEAK) about her being raped during the summer.  She (and all her friends) are effected, her friends more in an indirect manner.  There are so many things that are touching about the book (which I highly recomend over the movie....) that it was one I ate up in one night.  I read it in seventh grade, and it still has stuck with me.





And now comes the fun part.

Welcome to my blog.  More about books than nighttime, though frequently (and part of the reason my signature name is what it is, and maybe the blog name too....) my name on the internet is Midnight Melody.  Or something with the word "midnight" or "Melody".

This is my first blog, so there are things I'll have to learn how to do, along with securing readers and such.  Really annoying stuff like that.  :)  So just be patient with me.  I'll learn.

Love ya, Hope you enjoyed getting into my head a bit.

<3 Melody.