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  • July 3, 2008 at 3:00 am #41539
    Pip
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    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. :lol: If they truly were that bad, I almost don’t blame her!

    July 3, 2008 at 3:12 am #41540
    Alyosha
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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…

    July 3, 2008 at 3:14 am #41541
    Pip
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    Off-Topic Tomfoolery: Bashing you over the head? WHAT is? Do you often feel rebellious, m’dear?!

    July 3, 2008 at 3:17 am #41542
    Alyosha
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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 :P *cough* Quite.

    July 3, 2008 at 3:19 am #41543
    Pip
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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.

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