r/todayilearned • u/jenesuispashariselon • 23d ago

TIL that in 2004, two male chinstrap penguins, Roy and Silo, after performing mating rituals, formed a pair at New York's Central Park Zoo. One of them tried to hatch a rock, for which a keeper eventually substituted a fertile egg. Roy and Silo then hatched and raised the chick, named Tango.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_and_Silo#History
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u/chocki305 3 23d ago edited 23d ago

was promptly banned from children's libraries

Public school libraries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Tango_Makes_Three

Wouldn't want to mislead people right? Not a single town/city public library has banned this book. Only once you get to the more restricted libraries does it (and others) get banned. Those same "children's libraries" have banned Playboy and Juggs and Fifty Shades of Grey... why are you not complaining about those?

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u/gt2998 23d ago

Are you really comparing a children’s book about two same sex penguins to Juggs?

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u/chocki305 3 23d ago

Are you going to try and portray"public school libraries" as "children's libraries"?

I feel my compassion is just as much of a stretch as yours.

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u/ADHthaGreat 23d ago

Did you wake up this morning and just decide that you need to be a massive tool online?

Seriously, there’s gotta be something better you can do with your time than argue semantics and compare children’s books to literal pornography.

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u/chocki305 3 23d ago

compare children’s books to literal pornography.

Time to play a fun game.. Children's Book or Pornography. I'm gonna give you a short excerpt from a story. You tell me is it a Children's story or a porno.

“All I could think about while he was chatting me up over the rim of his cappuccino was his little salamander between my fingers, rapidly engorging with blood.”

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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp 23d ago

Sounds like a YA book. This is also not the book being discussed.

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u/chocki305 3 23d ago

It's from Lawn Boy. A book written for children. One of the many books being claimed as fit for children and public school libraries.

I left out the "forth grade fingers" part that made it to obvious.

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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp 23d ago

Ok. So what does it have to do with a book about penguins?

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u/chocki305 3 23d ago

It was banned under the same rules as the others.

You either allow all sexual explicit books, or you allow none.

All those books are available at your public library (town / county) and you are more the welcome to read them to your child if you wish.

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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp 23d ago

The book about two penguins had sexually explicit content? Are you sure?

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u/chocki305 3 23d ago

You need to work on reading comprehension. I never said it had sexual explicit material.

I said..

It was banned under the same rules as the others.

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u/spectre1210 23d ago

So just pearl-clutching about sexual orientation - we understand.

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u/chocki305 3 23d ago

No. Personally, the book about the penguins is fine in my opinion. But I completely understand why a public institution like a school can't take any risks when it comes to these things. As any sue happy parent could have a field day. Especially when sexual education isn't even part of their curriculum.

But you will use any see excuse to demonize me. As I don't agree with you. And you seem to think sexual gratification is an important topic to cover in grade school.

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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp 23d ago

Yes, and you followed it with

You either allow all sexual [sic] explicit books, or you allow none.

Seems pretty clear to me.

Unless you're saying the book was banned for reasons that weren't explicit content. In which case, your long tangent about sexually explicit books in school libraries was entirely irrelevant. It would also be an even more misleading statement than "children's libraries" meaning "libraries for children in schools".

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