Ugh Lord of the Flies. It has been proven with a very real shipwreck of young children that humanity does not behave like that. They actually cooperate and work together beautifully. And survive to be found and prove Lord of the Flies very wrong
(Was this comment for another newsletter? I don’t have time to go back and read what I wrote…but I’m struggling to think of what I wrote that would prompt this comment 💖💖💖 I love you!)
Narnia. Substantially less magical as an adult. The magical wardrobe story needs a rewrite. One that doesn’t assume that white people are perfect, brown people are skeezy, 12 year olds can go to war and come out heroes, and a grown ass queen who has been using a bow and arrow her whole life can “shoot as well as a boy”. One that doesn’t punish a girl for deciding she likes make-up and boys.
Oh yeah. And injures a young woman because her running away from her abusive father caused her nanny to be whipped which was apparently her fault, not her father’s fault, for which she deserved punishment by god.
A calling! - Or maybe an at-the-right-time re-sparking of a passion! This is brilliant!
(Oooh - three exclamation marks in a row. Sometimes you just need them. )
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(I do love an exclamation point! Thank you for sharing in my enthusiasm 💖 I appreciate you so so much)
It could do with a retelling. It’s deeply sexist and racist and writes 12 year olds killing people like that’s heroic and not abusive and traumatic.
(It’s sounds like you might be talking about the re-make of Lord of the Flies…which I loathed reading in high school)
Ugh Lord of the Flies. It has been proven with a very real shipwreck of young children that humanity does not behave like that. They actually cooperate and work together beautifully. And survive to be found and prove Lord of the Flies very wrong
So true! I’ve watched children build beautiful worlds, and have no doubt that it would not descend into horrificness.
That is not the world of children…but of the patriarchy:
(Was this comment for another newsletter? I don’t have time to go back and read what I wrote…but I’m struggling to think of what I wrote that would prompt this comment 💖💖💖 I love you!)
Narnia. Substantially less magical as an adult. The magical wardrobe story needs a rewrite. One that doesn’t assume that white people are perfect, brown people are skeezy, 12 year olds can go to war and come out heroes, and a grown ass queen who has been using a bow and arrow her whole life can “shoot as well as a boy”. One that doesn’t punish a girl for deciding she likes make-up and boys.
Ah! Narnia! You are so right! It could use a rewrite! Thank you for clarifying!
So I’ll do that tonight.
I appreciate you so so much!
Oh yeah. And injures a young woman because her running away from her abusive father caused her nanny to be whipped which was apparently her fault, not her father’s fault, for which she deserved punishment by god.
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