You Can't Say That Any More
- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 224
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780349146669
- Utgivelsesår: 2024
- Bidragsyter: Vincent, Bruno
Is The Sound of Music insensitive to deaf people, or The Barber of Seville cruel to the follicly challenged? In this age of gender fluidity, is the title Guys and Dolls acceptable when the more tasteful Peopleof Unspecified Gender would do?
Protecting delicate sensibilities from the harmful values of yesteryear, You Can''t Say That Any More reveals the shocking danger around us in the books, films and TV shows we used to cherish. From Bambi to Bleak House, from the lack of balcony safeguarding in Romeo and Juliet to the troubling depiction of body dysmorphia in The Very Hungry Caterpillar, we are surrounded on all sides by danger, depravity and profoundly harmful messaging.
Titles taken to task and put on the naughty step (at long last!) include: Postman Pat, Middlemarch, Happy Days, My Fair Lady, the Bible, Pride and Prejudice, Peanuts, Dante''s Divin