to feel uneasy about my children reading Black Beauty?

[AnnaSewell]

it's got black in the title! they might become closet racists and join the BNP!

PMSL

Love the name.

good one

Hilarious

titter

ROFL

Thank god - someone with some common sense

I missed the earlier posts, is she concerned regarding the word 'black'?

oh no. This is getting pretty awful now.

And the unfortunate end of Ginger

I'm serious, why was she concerned about reading Black Beauty? I'm intrigued ...

Read the OP. Think she is being ironic

LOL

But this is just yet another thread which could cause offence.

OMG you are right... Burn the books! Can we ban Free Willy for the sexual connations too?

it's your choice to be offended pointy...

I don't think people have much 'choice' about whether they find something offensive or not. You are just goading people now. I'm off.

I agree with you, pointy.

If I was being ironic, I would say that the original poster (and not having seen it) is:
(a) A horse-ophobe who does not like stories about horses
(b) A beauty-ophobe who does not like stories about physical image
(c) A black-ophobe who does not like stories containing the word black
(d) A brilliant-story-ophobe who doesn't like good stories.

If the original poster had a more significant point to make, I apologise in advance for my irony.