I agree that parents should be watching what their kids are doing. And I know they're going to find it if they want to (they can find it on my site even, I know). But as webmaster, it's my decision to not actively try to pull them into discussions about these stories, either. It's a compromise that I'm comfortable with as a balance between the two sides.
I'm not going to argue with you. I'm sorry that you don't like how things are currently being done. Again I'm willing to work with you on an alternate feature, but right now I'm not going to change how the current featured story is working. We'll come up with an alternate feature of some sort. Honestly I'm tired and don't think I'm going to articulate things well tonight (and obviously have not thus far...)
Sorry you think it's not being handled well. Mare's doing one story a month and I think she's been very fair picking from varied genres.
As for the R-Rated one...I'm sorry, I admit I had not read it; I'm not sure which one you're talking about but you're right it probably should not have been chosen for the featured story. I know you're going to say that if we posted that as featured we should post NC-17 as featured, but I'm going to just say that that was a mistake.
Again, I'm willing to work with you on an alternative here. I'm not saying that I won't do something different to feature them, but with the current feature(d) stories setup, I'm sorry, but it's not going to happen. I wasn't intentionally trying to slight NC-17 writers. Sorry you felt that way.