Duke Freshmen Refuse to Read Graphic Novel on Sexual Identity
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Duke Chronicle
Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, a "family tragicomic," is a graphic memoir about the cartoonist's relationship with her distant father growing up and her coming of age as she grappled with her sexual identity. But although the committee tasked with giving incoming freshmen at Duke University a summer reading assignment knew the Bechdel book would be a "contentious" choice, some students have refused to read it altogether, the Duke Chronicle reports. "Because of the graphic visual depictions of sexuality … I feel as if I would have to compromise my personal Christian moral beliefs to read it," student Brian Grasso wrote in a July 26 post on the Class of 2019 Facebook page. Others say they may have consented to read about the topics in the novel if they weren't presented in a graphic format.
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Tuesday 25 August 2015 - 13:51:04