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You Can't Say That Any More
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Is The Sound of Music insensitive to deaf people, or The Barber of Seville cruel to the follicly challenged? In this age of gender fluidity, is the title Guys and Dolls acceptable when the more tasteful People of Unspecified Gender would do? Protecting delicate sensibilities from...
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Description
Is The Sound of Music insensitive to deaf people, or The Barber of Seville cruel to the follicly challenged? In this age of gender fluidity, is the title Guys and Dolls acceptable when the more tasteful People of Unspecified Gender would do?
Protecting delicate sensibilities from the harmful values of yesteryear, You Can't Say That Any More reveals the shocking danger around us in the books, films and TV shows we used to cherish. From Bambi to Bleak House, from the lack of balcony safeguarding in Romeo and Juliet to the troubling depiction of body dysmorphia in The Very Hungry Caterpillar, we are surrounded on all sides by danger, depravity and profoundly harmful messaging.
Titles taken to task and put on the naughty step (at long last!) include: Postman Pat, Middlemarch, Happy Days, My Fair Lady, the Bible, Pride and Prejudice, Peanuts, Dante's Divine Comedy, The Wombles, Star Wars, the weather forecast, Bagpuss, Casablanca, Homer's Iliad and many, many more!
Each entry includes trigger warnings, suggested edits, alternative plots and helpful rewritings of deeply problematic books, films, plays, television series and musicals.
Over 100 all-time favourites disapproved of at length and in detail.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780349146669
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 07 November 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Abacus
Illustration: 20 b/w line drawings
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 360g
Pages: 240
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About the Author
Bruno Vincent was born in 1980. He was a bookseller and book editor before he was an author. His humour books for grown-ups, co-authored with Jon Butler, were national bestsellers. Vincent lives in London.
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