Jesus Christ you watched the NEW show and you think it's a nostalgic paean to how we treated kids in the old days?https://fee.org/articles/birth-rates-are-at-historic-lows-and-here-s-why/?utm_source=sumome&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=sumome_share …
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He's wrong even about the pettiest shit. Anne and Diana get in huge trouble for getting drunk, it's a massive scandalpic.twitter.com/k75eMQTTlC
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Anne on the show is so terrified of being put back into a household where she's used for her labor she almost has a nervous breakdownpic.twitter.com/szya6dAq23
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She objectively doesn't bring productivity to the household. Matthew can't have her work in the fields bc it's socially unacceptablepic.twitter.com/gX3h6vjXHU
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Anne's experience as a worker is in childcare, which the Cuthberts can't use bc they have no younger children. She's a net financial loss
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That's the whole fucking goddamn point, that's why everyone in town sees her adoption as unusual and noteworthy
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When Anne misbehaved at the last home she stayed at she was brutally beaten, this was like the most famous scene from the pilotpic.twitter.com/3kNARmmw3z
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That's because it's an escapist fantasy that didn't actually happen. They made the remake "gritty" to remind us most kids like her diedpic.twitter.com/JMuitV2Pcg
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One of the things the remake highlights is the inherent cruelty of judging kids by how much "value" they offer you
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Allowing a kid to become attached and then throwing them back like an underweight fish is one of the most traumatizing things that happens
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It still happens ("disruption") in the foster/adoption system today, when we don't openly see kids as small indentured employees
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Which is why the remake amps up the angst of the initial "misunderstanding" of Anne being a girl instead of playing it for laughs
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Like yes bc of her reading she does a bad impression of Hamlet's Ophelia but she genuinely is in such distress she might die
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