For anyone who's curious, the reason I'm so fascinated/amused by the original Swedish title for Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is because of 1) it functions as an example of the "retitle stuff for stupid Americans" like the first Potter book BUT ALSO
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I think it's interesting -- and bad -- on a level above that Like the original title isn't about the specific Men Who Hate Women in the story, it's about a general social phenomenon that they're an example of
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The new title makes it unambiguously specifically about Lisbeth Salander herself -- it's not even a trait she shares with other victimized women, it's a specific aesthetic thing about her It weakens the urgency implied by the original title, a lot
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Right, I mean the real amusing thing is just that they correctly guessed that if Americans won't be seen in public with a book called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," they definitely won't read MISOGYNISTS by Stieg Larrson
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Anyway, more broadly in that sense, it'd be amusing if STAR WARS were renamed SPACE FASCISM
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It's like that meme where you give Dr Seuss books literal titles Like Horton Hears a Who becomes The Casual Exploitation of Invisible Minorities
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