Lord of the Flies is like if the Stanford Prison Experiment were a fiction bookhttps://twitter.com/gertrudeprkns/status/1292255729051631617 …
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I haven't read it, full disclosure. I've seen the film adaptation, I know what it's about But basically it's one of those things that gets sold to you as some kind of sweeping commentary about the human condition when actually it's just germane to privileged male little shits
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I honestly don't really know what to do with the story, it's one of those things like ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS where it's just really a sanitized/sensationalized version of shit that white authors haven't shown a good job of understanding THE LIFE OF PI isn't much better
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It's fine I guess. It's not nearly as invidious as 1984 or 451. I don't know that you can really use it as a rhetorical weapon against leftism (except maybe anprims). At best it's a book about toxic masculinity and dominance culture among males which is kinda Tiptreeish tbh
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See! Okay. This is really important! Honestly, in the age of JKR, with her toxic creative property poisoning the earth, I could see LORD OF THE FLIES relevant from a deprogramming perspective, deconstructing the evils of the boarding school systemhttps://twitter.com/chibikonatsu/status/1292307493352140800 …
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Honestly in 2020 it's kind of ridiculous to imagine that we would ever NEED to have to make the case to children that boarding school culture is uniquely toxic but JKR has romanticized and glorified it to a really unwholesome extent Plus it had a hand in creating David Cameron
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English boarding schools being basically rape factories is something that I am continuously shocked to learn, even as I already have learned it repeatedly. It explains so much.
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There's multiple possible different etymologies for the f-slur for gay men and the fact that one of them is that "f***ing" refers to the practice of assigning first-years to seniors to be their personal servants is very distressing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
I think one of the best parts of the Crown is depicting the terrible place they sent Charles off to.
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And he's a freaking PRINCE, and so despite having all the options, AND probably some degree of special treatment, he's still brutalized.
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