Folks, it must be said. If you decide to read a book that is, say, 55 years old, and act SHOCKED! SHOCKED! that its themes and characterizations don't conform to today's accepted social mores... welp, I don't know what to tell you. I mean... /1
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Like. I can see why people like it! But can we also acknowledge that it still gets recommended uncritically all the goddamn time, and that way too many books written extremely recently still share certain of its failings around eugenics, sexuality and gender?
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Of course!
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This was not directed specifically at you, I promise, but at people in general (I see it in booktube especially) making blanket dismissals of "classic" novels. Naturally, MOST older work doesn't hold up in the details, and easy to roll your eyes at. But... /1
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...I simply meant to point out, EXPECT problematic content. I think a lot of readers without much exposure to older work don't know yet just HOW different people thought, and wrote about the world, 40-50-60 years ago. That's all. /2
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