Peter Pan was written in 1902, I mean that’s a real low hanging fruit there. We also don’t say “Red Indian” we say “Native American” in the UK. We are very aware of the offensiveness of that term.

Do you actually know what the word “revisionist” means? Because 1. it’s not actually a bad thing to incoroporate new data into historical record and 2. what i said isn’t revisionism because the data has been known since the events first occurred.

Again, i wasn’t defending anyone, was just pointing out that this was not…

Jesus christ, no. I’m Irish-American and was not raised worshipping Brigid and Macha, because that particular mythological ship sailed with colonization hundreds and hundreds of years ago (of note, the best recordings of early myth cycles come via monks, who get squirmy about even describing personages who were…

Speaking as a writer, and also a white dude: the adoption of mythology into a fictional world is complicated. To draw from experience—the Wild Hunt mythology for Europe. Different countries/cultures have different takes on the myth, some of them *vastly* different takes, and for the purpose of a book, for the purpose…

I think she probably thought she was incorporating Native American myths into the story. The legends are the legends they always were, but she’s added in some of her own legend that would make sense alongside it.

Europeans have a tonne of baggage, on all of those things, and stole a lot of ideas, images, history and land etc. The point is that they have different baggage.

I’m disappointed in her — because in general, she seems lovely and I think she’s trying to be thoughtful and respectful. She missed here, unfortunately. It’s a great lesson in how good intentions don’t really insulate you from bad decision-making. I sincerely hope she takes this as an opportunity to learn and rethink…

I don’t think she’s implying that? She seems to be implying that Native Americans were more open-minded than Europeans, which I think is true...

Literally all she had to do was contact Native Americans and ask them. Heck, even collaborate with an NA fantasy writer!

I donno about embracing KK as some feminist ally. I think it’s okay for women to (thoughtfully) critique her use of nudity and sexuality - her ‘brand’ and wealth are very dependent on promoting super narrow standards of beauty, which are tied with having tons of money, opulence, being sexually available to powerful…

I think there’s a difference between “you’re naked, therefore you like sex and are a slut” and “there is no reason to show us your naked body under the flimsy pretext of not knowing what to wear as anyone who cares to see you naked has already done so”.

I bid two goats and an acre of farmland of a goodly soil.

I realize I’m way late to the party here but can we be best friends because you sound like the coolest.

A friend of mine was at school with the younger Middleton and they were apparently known as the wisteria sisters- always climbing castle walls.

The advantages of the grammar school system in the past is rich in myth- that it was an engine of social mobility, and that children did better in grammar schools and so on. Children in state schools today are so much more likely to earn 5+ good grades at GCSE and beyond.

I come from a council estate on Merseyside and live in Scotland. lowest of the low. Token gestures will do nothing. One person may get a scholarship. That is it. I went to a uni with lots of posh people only because I was a swot at RC comp school. And had good teachers. That is it. The gulf is unbelievable. Most kids…

Lots of schools were never run by the church. They call them independent schools (meaning fee-paying) although public schools means a very specific set of names - Eton, harrow, Stowe, Repton, Sherborne, Gordonstoun. The elite.

That’s the insidious thing about the UK class system which is different to the US - you can’t fake being upper class, because people will know. There are a thousand tiny tells. You can see it in how the Middletons are treated. Kate has a voice that is posher than posh and has learned to mimic them, but William’s…

I’m a teacher in the British system (although I teach internationally now) trained and taught in the UK, I taught in state schools, and I have friends who teach in public schools. It’s my considered opinion that it’ll take a lot more than letting a few poor kids into private schools to address and challenge the class…

Because before them, in the middle-ages, you could only be privately educated. Then, they opened schools that were open to the public (although you had to pay). The “public” means open to anybody with the means to pay for it, not as in the modern sense. Free schools in the UK are just called “schools”.