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Okay...
so let me sum this up real quick.
With Elsie, I'm just like:
With the ingrained sexism that is endorsed by the characters AND the narrative, I'm just like:
With the patriarchal and unhelpfully shallow theology, I'm like:
And on the whole, I'm like:
I would never, ever give these books to a child. We know that what they read early on is formative, and these have multiple dangerous concepts. This one tells us that women follow their emotions and must have things spelled out for them, and men follow logic and are usually right. Therefore, men must protect women (and then tell the women not to be made weak by men... good thing a man was around to tell us that) and the women should listen to the men, because what do we know? Seriously, every woman believed the deception, even when presented with evidence. Elsie and Lucy had to actually witness the man misbehaving before they would believe he was bad, and I'm not sure they others actually came around. They probably will when Elsie writes to them like "my bad" and they'll all be like "welp, at least he was pretty, amirite?"
so let me sum this up real quick.
With Elsie, I'm just like:
With the ingrained sexism that is endorsed by the characters AND the narrative, I'm just like:
With the patriarchal and unhelpfully shallow theology, I'm like:
And on the whole, I'm like:
I would never, ever give these books to a child. We know that what they read early on is formative, and these have multiple dangerous concepts. This one tells us that women follow their emotions and must have things spelled out for them, and men follow logic and are usually right. Therefore, men must protect women (and then tell the women not to be made weak by men... good thing a man was around to tell us that) and the women should listen to the men, because what do we know? Seriously, every woman believed the deception, even when presented with evidence. Elsie and Lucy had to actually witness the man misbehaving before they would believe he was bad, and I'm not sure they others actually came around. They probably will when Elsie writes to them like "my bad" and they'll all be like "welp, at least he was pretty, amirite?"
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