The culture asked for it. No one in particular in most of these cases, no. But companies have seen too many tempests in the Twitter teapot and now employ certain people whose job it is simply to avoid fiascos. (Never mind that these “sensitivity edits” result in their own, different fiascos. The way things are going…
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I think the strangled cries of Racism are going to be a harder sell this year, but keep fighting the good fight.
Finally. Now we can all be honest and acknowledge that James had a magical adventure in a giant ass
Rather than editing the books, why not include discussion at the front of the book and footnotes within the book helping teach readers about why those terms have changed for the better?
Once you open the door to allowing changes, the whole book will be re-written to suit whoever is doing the re-writing. If a different group were making the changes, maybe they would include god and make sure he’s prominently discussed. And maybe they would take out any mention of someone being “gay,” because you…
Absurd. The fact is also that progressive should not be censoring and banning books at a time when conservatives are doing it in much greater numbers (in the US at least). They want to make sure your kids don’t read anything with LGBT or trans characters, they want to make sure they don’t learn anything about the…
Nahh, this is absolute bullshit though.
I’m quite puzzled to learn that the editorial changes here are based in part on the editorial view of other literature. It’s the reference to Matilda no longer liking Joseph Conrad that is a little tough for me to parse.
“Pixie was a trans-aleutian-vegan who volunteered every sunday at a soup kitchen slash animal rescue...yet despite all that, dear reader, they were a real fucking asshole!” from my forthcoming children’s book: “Anyone Can Be An Asshole!”
Although this is far from new. I have some of my father’s Hardy Boys books from the 1930s-1940s when he was a kid. Even when I was reading the series in the 1970s-1980s, and reading a mixture the old and recently published versions I realized that changes had been made. And I’m sure that by today’s standards even…
I think the well just ran dry. There have been 25 Bond films released since 1962, and they certainly aren’t all winners. A lot of them kind of feel the same. There have been 31 MCU films released since 2008, and the average one is much better than the average Bond. It’s quite an accomplishment, but they’ve burned…
If it was luck then the guy is really lucky because no other studio or producer has been able to pull it off(and many tries over the last decade)
Sometimes the writers don’t want you to follow everything. If you catch just a noun or you catch an adverb, maybe that’s all they want you to comprehend. You don’t have to follow the entire sentence. It is intentional. Is it intentional 100 percent of the time? No, of course not.
A strong gay character that wasn’t openly gay in the books. The merest hint of gayness she sprinkled in her books relied on gay stereotypes. Also, the only time you should be worried about a gay man trying to groom children is if he is a priest for the Catholic church.
I don’t care how you feel
I don’t give a shit about trans people because I don’t give a shit about people period.
don’t you dare presume to belittle me simply because I don’t think the same way you do
Yes, yes, conservatives don’t care at all about other people or what they think BUT HOW DARE YOU JUDGE THEM OR CRITICIZE THEM IN ANY WAY.
The transphobic trolls are really triggered by this one.