Scheherazade
08-28-2007, 07:03 PM
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner
I came across this book in the 'Suggested Further Reading' list for one of the Social Science classes I took at university and enjoyed reading very much.
JF Garner picks on the recent frenzy of political correctness and offers us a taste of how the fairy tales we all grew up with would sound like if they were politically correct too. Is it OK to refer to Little Red Ridinghood's grandmother as "old"? We cannot call the "dwarves" "dwarves" now, can we? And many similar questions are answered in the book!
The tales included are:
- Little Red Riding Hood
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- The Three Little Pigs
- Rumpelstiltskin
- The Three Codependent Goats Gruff
- Rapunzel
- Cinderella
- Goldilocks
- Snow White
- Chicken Little
- The Frog Prince
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- The Pied Piper of Hamlin
It is a very entertaining read over all (Wouldn't recommend reading all at once, though; after a while it gets somewhat repetitive and predictable).
8/10 KitKats!
I came across this book in the 'Suggested Further Reading' list for one of the Social Science classes I took at university and enjoyed reading very much.
JF Garner picks on the recent frenzy of political correctness and offers us a taste of how the fairy tales we all grew up with would sound like if they were politically correct too. Is it OK to refer to Little Red Ridinghood's grandmother as "old"? We cannot call the "dwarves" "dwarves" now, can we? And many similar questions are answered in the book!
The tales included are:
- Little Red Riding Hood
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- The Three Little Pigs
- Rumpelstiltskin
- The Three Codependent Goats Gruff
- Rapunzel
- Cinderella
- Goldilocks
- Snow White
- Chicken Little
- The Frog Prince
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- The Pied Piper of Hamlin
It is a very entertaining read over all (Wouldn't recommend reading all at once, though; after a while it gets somewhat repetitive and predictable).
8/10 KitKats!