Do not apologize for your opinion. Especially if you are correct. I find his works whimsical and delightful. And children, I believe, are smarter than many adults give them credit for. ❤️❤️❤️❤️😊😘
Don’t delete it or apologize for you opinion. It’s a good topic to bring up. I agree that it is better to raise your children to face everything in this world and to process it through discussion and reason. Censoring should only be used on people who are deliberately and constantly trying to cause offence. Everything else is fair. ❤️❤️
@franie No problem, I can explain here. In particular the major changes they made in the Roald Dahl’s works are in “The Witches” who the grandmother tell to the child to do not pull the hair of every woman he meet to verify is a witch, in the original edition. In the modified version the grandmother said to the child that every woman have theirs motive to wear a wig. They made this change because they thought that phrase instigated violence against women. Another important modification have made in “Matilda”, when in the original version It said that the main character, Matilda, read Rudyard Kipling’s books, they put in the modified version that she read Jane Austen instead. They made this change because Kipling’s works was deeply influenced by the colonialists’s mentality of 1800s, and they thought that was not good for children
@franie Honestly, I think this changes are useless because every child can understand that pull someone hair to verify is a witch or not, isn’t a good thing to do and I haven’t heard about a person who become violent against women because they read things. The same thing goes to Matilda’s changes of readings. I think the best thing to do with a child when they read something about Kipling or the hair pulling is sit and talking to them about about this argument, with patience and tolerance, and don’t underestimate their intelligence and comprehension.
