Posted on 02/13/2019 7:59:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Just when you thought it was safe to share your favorite childhood classics with your kids, the New York Times goes and ruins it with an article called "The Gay History of America's Classic Children's Books," by Jesse Green. From Frog and Toad to Goodnight Moon, we are told that our beloved stories are awash in "a secret language of queer compassion." I'm always bemused when people claim that beloved fictional characters are gay. A few months ago it was "Sesame Street's" Ernie and Bert, whose closet door was abruptly slammed shut by their creator, Frank Oz, after he got annoyed by the nattering Nancies who would not stop speculating about the hand puppets' sexuality.
And yet, the speculators keep it up. It always seems rude to do this to beloved characters, especially when each character means something different to each reader. Harriet the Spy (who I've now been informed is a lesbian or something) was one of my favorites. It's not just queer kids who are left out and in need of compassion, as this author suggests, but any kid who is deemed "different," as I was for being a gregarious know-it-all who liked school and would randomly break out into song. It was a rough beginning. The narrative that only queer kids need compassion is tiring. All children need someone to make them feel special. #AllKidsMatter.
The other bothersome thing about this particular story is that Green claims that all of the authors of the books in question were gay while admitting that some were "in the closet." If that's the case, what business does Green have outing them like this? We live in a time when everyone and their emotional support animal has some queer identity, complete with preferred pronouns, plastered all over their social media. We couldn't avoid it if we tried. But there are people who prefer not to shout their sexual preferences to the world and just want to live quiet lives. Outing people who haven't outed themselves is rude. Green writes,
[T]hey won Caldecott and Newbery Medals for books that, without ever directly speaking their truth, sent it out in a secret language that was somehow accessible to those who needed to receive it. And not just to them. These works comforted the proto-gay but also tenderized the proto-straight in a way no other literature could.
And a full case of beer.
I guess Jill in Jack and Jill was a boy named Gill? Who would’ve thought that? I learn something new every day from libs, usually wrong ideas...
Hell, you can hear that playing Bruce Sprungspring forward.
NYC media and city rulers are all gay
Its not in dispute
Remember when the Christian right said “the gays are coming for your children!” and no one believed them.
With the help if the media it all came true.
They cannot convince themselves that they are normal and they know it.
Actually Lennon said he got the inspiration for the song from a story his daughter heard in grammar school.
Lennon didn't have a daughter. His three-year-old son Julian drew a picture of a girl in his nursery school class and called it "Lucy in the sky with diamonds." John was enthralled by the line and wrote a song about it.
I stand corrected.
LOL! George Carlin once quipped about a new Beatles album that if you played it backwards you’d hear a voice saying “hey dummy! You’re playing this record backwards!”
But there are those who insist Carroll was a pedo.
L-O-L-A, Lola.
Eighty per cent of Vatican priests are gay according to explosive new book
Daily Mail | 12 February 2019
Posted on 02/13/2019 7:30:21 AM PST by navysealdad
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That’s because everyone looks through a 21st century mindset rather than understand the Victorians.
Little Boy Blue
He needed the money!
Oh, but everybody knows that if a man has a friendship with a friend’s young daughter it must be something perverted.
Mustn’t it???
Well, way back when, PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON was once said to be about smoking pot, but it wasn’t; it was a children’s song done for teens/young adults.
No way, NO WAY IN HELL, was Sarah Churchill a lesbian!
Yeah, but wasn't Lewis Carroll Jack the Ripper???
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