Maybe you should save that energy for Sharon Dogar's Annexed, a novel that still shows up on YA reading lists about the Holocaust even though it's a crappy perfunctory paint-by-numbers cash-in ("Peter POV fic") that literally throws in a (highly improbable) sex scene
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(They were living in an attic and never more than 20 feet away from their parents so no I don't think there's much possibility anything happened between them Anne kept out of her diary and Dogar's "historical speculation" was obviously clickbait to move copies)
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I'm not mad at Otto Frank for expurgating the diary for its initial publication - that's obviously what Anne intended All the other stuff afterwards, *especially* the Goodrich and Hackett adaptation for stage and screen, is completely fair to get mad at him for
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I mean, people did get mad Meyer Levin was furious about it to his dying day Fritz Pfeiffer (Albert Dussel)'s widow and son threatened to sue
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This is one of my random special interests, Ellen Feldman's The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank is a novel about the urban legend that Peter van Pels (van Daan) survived the camps and disappeared into anonymity
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Like if that had actually happened How do you think he'd feel about watching a movie where everyone is gawking at him and Anne's awkward first kiss In a movie that turns his dad into a fat fuck villain and his mom into a horrible whining shrew
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(The Anne Frank play was once really important to me and it was a trip learning all the details about its history when I got older And I really do recommend the book The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, it's The Prestige to Annexed's The Illusionist)
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Anyway I guess my point is... To some degree it's either all okay or none of it is, right? Anyone who "ships" Anne and Peter - as the mainstream movie made millions of dollars doing - has already dived headfirst into the deep end, of exploiting a dead teenager to make art
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Why come after the queer women writing blog posts about seeing themselves in Anne, like that's not only in the same ballpark of offensive but somehow MORE offensive
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Replying to @arthur_affect
The straight people going after queer people for that are the exact same people who view the diary as a romance novel
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