I love public libraries, especially in the summer. Air conditioning, free books, story hour, and perverts looking at online porn. What more do you want?
Meanest Mom Jana Mathews: I've visited community libraries all over the country and the one attribute that they all seem to share is men viewing hard-core porn on the public access computers in the middle of the afternoon. The first time I noticed the behavior I had my four young kids in tow. Horrified and furious, I complained to the librarian, who told me very matter-of-factly that there was nothing she could do about it. It was a public library and its patrons had the right to view whatever they wanted to on the Internet (as long as the sound was turned off), even if it was a graphic sex scene on a computer within eyeshot of the children's section.
Think that is bad? Last month, I took my kids on a cross-country plane ride. An hour into the flight, the man sitting next to my five-year-old son began watching an anime movie (Japanese cartoons) on his laptop. I was fine with my son looking over the guy's shoulder ... until the cartoon characters started taking off their clothes. This time, I didn't bother calling in the reinforcements. I demanded that the man turn the movie off ...which he did ... very slowly ... and with a loud exasperated sigh of annoyance.
The guy's reaction highlighted the ridiculous absurdity of my request. Going two hours without looking at porn is just too much to ask.
Call me a traditionalist, but since when do the rights of perverts (for that is the proper term for people who view porn in public places) come before and above social decency, common sense, and consideration of our country's youngest and most innocent group of citizens -- namely, our children?
If you want to look at porn -- go for it! Just not around me or my kids ... or anyone else's!!!
 | Jana Mathews is the mother of "four under five" and the author of The Meanest Mom blog. |
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