{"id":4076,"date":"2014-02-27T16:01:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T22:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2014-02-27T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T22:01:51","slug":"fun-home-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/fun-home-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Home Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fun_Home\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4079\" alt=\"Fun Home\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Funhomecover.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Funhomecover.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Funhomecover-97x150.jpg 97w, http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Funhomecover-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>If you haven&#8217;t read Alison Bechdel&#8217;s incisive graphic\u00a0memoir <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fun_Home\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fun_Home\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fun Home<\/em><\/a>, we highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>Her off-Broadway play of the same name was staged at the Public Theater in New York and was a knockout! Scripted by Lisa Kron, the play is a <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fun_Home_(musical)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fun_Home_(musical)\" target=\"_blank\">musical<\/a>, depicting the autobiographical story.<\/p>\n<p>Bechdel&#8217;s father, a closeted gay man,\u00a0commits suicide mere months after Bechdel comes out to her parents.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the University of South Carolina is under fire for recommending the book, one of\u00a0many,\u00a0to incoming freshmen.\u00a0\u00a0The state&#8217;s legislature determined that this was <strong>not suitable reading for &#8220;children.&#8221;<\/strong> Although we would say that 17- and 18-year-olds about to enter an institute of higher learning are not exactly &#8220;children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The issue is Bechdel&#8217;s <strong>lesbianism<\/strong>, not, apparently, her father&#8217;s suicide.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/comics\/article\/61201-bechdel-reacts-to-fun-home-controversy-in-so-carolina.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/comics\/article\/61201-bechdel-reacts-to-fun-home-controversy-in-so-carolina.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bechdel reacts to the controversy in a good article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t read Alison Bechdel&#8217;s incisive graphic\u00a0memoir Fun Home, we highly recommend it. Her off-Broadway play of the same name was staged at the Public Theater in New York and was a knockout! Scripted by Lisa Kron, the play is a musical, depicting the autobiographical story. Bechdel&#8217;s father, a closeted gay man,\u00a0commits suicide mere [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,16],"tags":[479,480,555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4081,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions\/4081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}