Texas Mom Interrupts COVID-Related School Board Meeting To Rant About Anal Sex In Books

[dalton99a]

Her name is Kara Bell, Christian woman of God
https://nypost.com/2021/04/20/maskless-texas-woman-arrested-at-nordstrom-rack-viral-videokaren-on-steroids-maskless-texas-woman-arrested-at-nordstrom-rack/

[LiberalFighter]

1. Those that complain the most....

[NickB79]

19. Something about a squeaky wheel and lots of grease, as I recall

Ya know, for lube and such.......

[vercetti2021]

2. What lol

Hey anal won't get you pregnant at least honey

[IzzaNuDay]

3. If she thinks banning books is gonna protect her kids

does she also have a muzzle on the home internet and those of her kids' friends? If she doesn't, then she does not have enough fingers to dam up the information dike!

[Initech]

7. Yeah it might be worth checking junior's search engine history...

[Initech]

4. It is seriously time to stop allowing the public into these meetings.

[Hortensis]

27. ? These tend to be the only meetings that are open.

Nothing new about assholes attending, or personal passions for them. Anyway, our government entities (are supposed to) operate to serve us -- of, by and for.

[Takket]

5. I don't think such a book belongs in the library of a middle school either

and Yet I find this woman to be completely obnoxious.

[Phoenix61]

14. Have you read the book?nt

[Takket]

21. No. Why?

[Thtwudbeme]

22. I am a middle school librarian-

Librarians generally read professional reviews before they purchase books. However, some can slip through if one has bought a subscription to a book service by an organization such as Jr. Library Guild.

I personally have pulled several books, and sent them to my friends that are HS librarians. In my county, all the media coordinators know each other, and we are known to "trade books around" if the material is not age appropriate.

I checked our county-wide catalog- the book in question here is only held in High Schools.

This woman's diatribe was unnecessary- all she had to do was take the book back to the media center with a note on it. It's not that hard. She just wanted to rant and show off her religious beliefs in public.

I had a parent once contact school board members, and god help me, the area superintendent before I heard a word about it. It was beyond silly. The book had the words "lesbian" and "Ouija board" in it. I was so damned glad that it was the word "lesbian" than set her off. Why? Because if I had to worry about Ouija boards- then I would have to look at the Harry Potter books also.

[sarisataka]

6. Out of Darkness

became the most requested book at the libraries of Hudson Bend Middle School and Bee Cave Middle School starting September 18, 2021.

[RockRaven]

8. Uh, what book was that again?

I'm, uh... asking for a friend... Yeah, asking for a friend.

[underpants]

9. Red dress ✅ blonde ✅ viral performance✅

Sandals and pretending she never knew the cornhole joke 👎

[dmr]

33. Yea, that was quite a performance, wasn't it?

My first impression was that she enjoyed reading it, and telling us about her sex life ("I've never had anal sex ..." and she doesn't plan on doing it either! I don't need to know that)

The best part of that video was when they turned off her mike -- and, she still wouldn't shut up! Quite the performer, indeed.

[msongs]

10. get rid of bibles. full of perversions and crimes nt

[marble falls]

11. Woman's got a simple rule. No anal sex at school or at home.

[msongs]

12. and btw did she vote for trump, mister grab em by the p**** nt

[Deuxcents]

13. Good grief

[tulipsandroses]

15. I wasn't familiar with this book, had to look it up

It sounds like a good book. I hope that nutjob is against the overall themes of the book in real life.

I thought this was insightful

Ashley Hope Pérez’s Out of Darkness is a book that is both beautiful and brutal. I’ve come to refer to these kinds of books as brutiful. The first time I started it, I put it down. I got to page 40 and thought, I can’t do this right now. I was hooked, but I also had a pretty strong feeling about where it was going, and I didn’t want to go there. Admittedly, that’s evidence of my own privilege. I get to choose when, where, and how I engage with a story such as Out of Darkness because it’s not reflective of my own life experience. It’s not a mirror for me; instead it’s more of a window, or perhaps a door.

Despite the significant number of honors and award it’s received (see the end of the post for a list), some continue to question the book’s appropriateness for high school students because it deals with racism, racial violence, and sexual abuse. I understand this. There is the idea that we must protect the innocence of our students for as long as possible. But I think we need to stop and unpack this idea of protection and childhood innocence.
When we look more critically at this notion, we must address a number of questions: Who gets to remain innocent? Whom or what are we protecting when we refuse to give voice to the trauma many of our students experience? As Malinda Lo notes, “It is natural to want to protect young people from horrible truths, but all too often we forget to question whom exactly are these young people we want to protect? Typically, they’re white. Young people of color have already experienced racism; they are beyond this kind of protection.” Bringing to light the stories of those who have been silenced or marginalized can be painful, but that doesn’t mean that those stories shouldn’t be told.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/teachinglatinamericathroughliterature.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/book-review-out-of-darkness/amp/

[Leith]

16. I'm reading reviews about the book on Amazon

This woman in the video is outraged about anal sex. She had to read the word "cornhole" (and apparently she has a game by that name? ).

Also in the book, according to reviews:
- an elementary school explodes because of a natural gas leak that killed 295 students and teachers
- "an abundance of racial slurs and violence" as one reviewer said
- "the issues of familial violence, corrupt justice systems"
- 3 children orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth
These were in the the Top Reviews in the US.

Perhaps the woman giving her opinion of the word "cornhole" would have better served the Lake Travis School Board and the world by not telling the School Board about what sexual practices she will and will not perform. Instead she chose to ignore the real issues that her delicate brood is already very aware of and, in doing so, reinforces stereotypes of certain geological areas to the outside world.

[Celerity]

24. (and apparently she has a game by that name? ).

[Blue Owl]

17. Lake Travis?

Apparently they’re still shellshocked from Dumbkirk, the great Lake Travis massacre….

[lkinwi]

18. She ran for school board last year also.

At least she didn’t win.

[elevator]

20. She got her ass kicked, not poked huh. You'll never win with a anti anal sex

platform.

[Buns_of_Fire]

23. ...and also got herself arrested for assaulting a store employee.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215874132

[MineralMan]

25. Cornhole Karen....

[NurseJackie]

29. Haaaa!

[MineralMan]

30. Always glad to amuse!

[Captain Stern]

26. The lady doth protest too much, methinks

But, kidding aside...if there's a book in a library you don't want your kid to read, don't let them read it. Actually do your job as a parent, and don't ask other people to do it for you.

[struggle4progress]

31. Q&A with Ashley Hope Prez

... You don’t shy away from controversial territory! This story contains sexual abuse, incest, brutal racism and frank sexuality ...

... the frank depictions of consensual sexual activity is where I feel myself most challenged, but the racism and abuse that are part of the story in Out of Darkness are probably what’s harder for readers to contend with. The reality of racism in the world of 1937 East Texas didn’t seem like something I could — or should — varnish in any way. And sexual predation, now as in the past, flourishes in response to the social and economic vulnerability of potential victims. My main character, Naomi, is extremely vulnerable in both of these areas because of her ethnicity and precarious situation in the household where she lives ...

... The New London explosion happened close to home (about 20 minutes from where I grew up), but I knew almost nothing about it and only rarely heard it mentioned .. I wanted to think about what the explosion meant for the victims and their families, but I was even more interested in following its repercussions outward ...

... Once I had Wash and Naomi, I had to find a space for them to be together (a special tree in the woods), and that’s how the Sabine River and the East Texas landscape became important to the story. I loved writing about the natural spaces of my childhood. Sometimes describing that physical beauty was a bit of a reprieve from the harshness of my characters’ circumstances ...

https://latinosinkidlit.com/2015/09/09/qa-with-ashley-hope-perez-about-out-of-darkness/

[Kaleva]

32. She claims she's never done it but i think she may have had a messy experience with it.

And she wants to protect her kids and other kids, when they get older, from ever having to burn the bed in the backyard like she did.