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This week, William’s on vacation! So we talk movies and hunting killers. We learn the only remaining role model in the world. We find out how to exorcise the Pope out of someone. And we learn that if you hope to survive, you’d better be damned sure you remember your first Oreo. Enjoy!
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I don’t think I had an Oreo til I was pretty old, but I don’t remember it anyway. We didn’t have a lot of sweets or desserts in the house when I was growing up. Not for any health reason but ’cause my Mom didn’t grow up with lots of desserts in her family so she didn’t buy them or make them.
So, I had in mind representation when I wrote the question. I don’t think I have the association with role models that they are supposed to be perfect, and anyway, what my friend was talking about was missing seeing a person who is like him.
I don’t quite know how this would work, but I somehow think the definition of “queer” should be radically expansive and also restricted. Expansive if you think of “straight” being defined as a way to keep everyone in a normative line with regard to orientation and gender identity. So in that sense I would want to deny that anyone is really straight. On the other hand, I would want it restricted as I wouldn’t want people who don’t in any way suffer from the social stigma or from legal repercussions or what-have-you, claiming the identity. Which is sort of why I didn’t like Harry Styles as an example (’cause I suspect he dresses the way he does for the reasons Tony was mentioning).
Children’s Lit didn’t really exist until fairly late 19th century. Fairy tales were originally tales for everyone, not for children. That said, I do wonder if children are actually much better able to absorb some of the things in Fairy Tales than we think. I was looking at a Fairy Tale collection of mine from childhood because I was teaching a section of a class on Fairy Tales and an article I read was talking about a category of stories that are called “Donkey-Skin” stories. They are a version of Cinderella stories. The Cinderella story we know evolved from them. In these stories, after the Queen/Mother dies and the female child is left with the King/Father, there is some device (like the glass slipper) where an item of clothing or jewelry that belonged to the Mother is said to only fit the next Queen–the woman the King should marry, and of course that turns out to be the Princess. She then has to escape this incestuous marriage and disguises herself with dirt and ashes (cinders) and lives in poverty until rescued by unrelated Prince. Anyway, I had that story in my Fairy Tale collection when I was a kid and it didn’t strike me as weird or horrifying. I mean no more horrifying than the fact that Snow White’s stepmother asks to have her killed and the heart brought to her to eat. It was just “fill-in-blank-evil-thing” that the protagonist has to deal with.
But then again, I find Series of Unfortunate Events hilarious.
To be fair, if you asked me which was the worse fate, marrying my Dad or having my heart torn out on the orders of my stepmother… I mean… you’re gonna have a bad time either way…