Okay, well every time Oswald (and I don't even like the name!) said something against girls, I shuddered. I think that even if it WAS satire, it was crass, poorly written and encouraged boys to think badly of their female companions. Man, I sound really dumb...but anyway, I just didn't think it was necessary! Alice was loverly, I loved her the best but my goodness! "ALMOST as good as a boy"? It drove me NUTS!!!!!!
Perhaps the reason Nesbit was a feminest was because of children like Oswald. 
If they truly were that bad, I almost don't blame her!
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I wholeheartedly agree about the name Oswald. Thank goodness the book is written in the first person. (My condolences to any Oswalds out there.)
I think a lot of it is also the time it was written in. Oswald hates people being emotional, he has a lot of patriotic pride, etc...all traces of a Victorian upbringing.
So yeah, I see how it could be seen as offensive. I rather liked it--Eng 12 is currently bashing me over the head with all manner of feminist, anti-colonialist, politically correct rubbish so I'm feeling rebellious.
Sort of odd to think that the Bastable boys were just about the right age to fight in WWI...
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Off-Topic Tomfoolery: Bashing you over the head? WHAT is? Do you often feel rebellious, m'dear?!
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Nah, just when they (the aforementioned English class) give me lectures about how I should be ashamed to be white and how my brothers ought to be ashamed to be male and all the rest of it. Otherwise, I'm quite compliant
*cough* Quite.
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Good heavens! Like I always say to oppresive things that I hear about: "I should protest!"
I loved the Bastables's uncle in the movie, he was cool.Posted 3 years ago #
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