Ok, you keep going in the BAN! direction, and I remain unsure where you are getting that from anything I am saying.
I understand that you strongly believe in autonomy wrt (especially) girls and women and media. And I am right there with you. But you are championing *choice*- and what I'm telling you is that I don't think there actually IS one. Kids aren't reading this shit because it's not shit, they're reading it because it's WHAT'S AVAILABLE.
Which leads to my bigger concern: this kind of media is not created in a vacuum, it's part of a larger cultural trope where girls are taught to be passive- they are fed this from the age of fairytale all the way through adulthood with movies like "Closer", as mentioned by another commenter. It's a circle, and you're coming in in the middle of it, saying "let them pick, it's good for imagination!" I'm saying, this has nothing to do with imagination, and everything to do with agenda.
Especially this book, which was written with a very very specific religious agenda in mind.
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I understand that you strongly believe in autonomy wrt (especially) girls and women and media. And I am right there with you. But you are championing *choice*- and what I'm telling you is that I don't think there actually IS one. Kids aren't reading this shit because it's not shit, they're reading it because it's WHAT'S AVAILABLE.
Which leads to my bigger concern: this kind of media is not created in a vacuum, it's part of a larger cultural trope where girls are taught to be passive- they are fed this from the age of fairytale all the way through adulthood with movies like "Closer", as mentioned by another commenter. It's a circle, and you're coming in in the middle of it, saying "let them pick, it's good for imagination!" I'm saying, this has nothing to do with imagination, and everything to do with agenda.
Especially this book, which was written with a very very specific religious agenda in mind.