Posted on 02/25/2023 7:27:24 PM PST by Angelino97
James Bond novels including Casino Royale and Octopussy have been edited to suit modern sensibilities with a raft of racist and sexist terms removed ahead of the 70th anniversary of 007 this year.
The publishers of the books by Bond creator Ian Fleming commissioned a review by ‘sensitivity readers’ to modernise them, according to the Sunday Telegraph...
In the new version of Bond novel Live And Let Die, a scene in which Bond visits a New York club is altered to remove reference to a striptease. In the 1954 original it says: ‘Bond could hear the audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough.’
The revised version will now reportedly read: ‘Bond could sense the electric tension in the room.’
The N-word, which author Ian Fleming used to refer to black people when he was writing during the 1950s and 1960s, has been removed from the revised texts. However, outdated references to other ethnicities remain, as do phrases such as the ‘sweet tang of rape’, and the description of homosexuality as a ‘stubborn disability’.
Bond publisher Ian Fleming Publications said it had changed terms to those more accepted today while ensuring they are in keeping with the time the books were written.
The reissued spy novels will feature a disclaimer that says: ‘This book was written at a time when terms and attitudes which might be considered offensive by modern readers were commonplace.
‘A number of updates have been made in this edition, while keeping as close as possible to the original text and the period in which it is set.’
Bond’s publishers, Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, commissioned a review by ‘sensitivity readers’ of the classic texts under its control to modernise the works, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
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“You get to read what we LET you get to read.”
Imagine their reaction if anyone imposed something like that to what THEY like to read...
Literary terrorism.
They bowdlerized Shakespeare 200 years ago. Modern people (when I was a kid) laughed at such a ludicrous practice.
And here we are.
Yippee Ki-Yay...My Friend
These are the same woketard cultural terrorists who are putting hardcore XXX content in grade school libraries.
” the description of homosexuality as a ‘stubborn disability’.”
Stopped reading right there.
Only in this specific day and age can that turn of phrase klunk false.
James Bond awakes aboard Goldfinger’s Lockheed Jetstar private jet. He had been knocked out with a tranquilizer gun, and his vision is blurry as he focuses on the face of a woman.
When she is in focus, he asks, “Who are you?”
She answers, “My name is Pussy Galore”
James Bond delivers one of our favorite lines:
“I must be dreaming.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5drmm5SAS3U
Based on this article, this sounds like reverse bowlderization — that is, pretending that deviant behaviors are perfectly normal.
They tone down Ian Fleming but allow schools to teach that aberrant sex practices are “normal”.
But it’s ok for the children to read transgender porn with flaming perverts in the SchoolLibrary.
Do you expect me to beg?
No Mr Bond, I expect you to censor yourself.
/eyeroll
”I’ve had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday through Friday plane”.
Does it still count as a book burning if you just burn a few pages at a time?
Sensitivity readers? I was going to ask why don’t they honestly call them woke readers, then I realized they’re Demonicrats; they’re on Satan’s side.
I got Demonicrat from Judge Jeannine calling them Demon Rats. The thought popped into my brain, it’s missing a C. Instantaneously, Demonicrat popped in. Ergo, my new nickname for them.
Great reference...:)
Thanks :)
I’d love to see some others that people come up with. They’d probably make some great memes.
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