You could just substitute the text of a politically correct story,maybe Heather Has Two Mommies.
Anyone who thought the politically correct rewriting would stop at the irreverent author of such children’s classics as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox" was, of course, sadly mistaken.
I believe they've already screwed with Mark Twain.
| Mostly removed things like Huck Finn from libraries and curricula, more’s the pity. Though the vocabulary wouldn’t suit modern sensibilities, the escaped slaves in Huck Finn, for instance, are heroic and fully rounded in their own right, not NPCs. |
Look out! It's a Chigro!
This is a very bad idea.
See what they come up with when they tackle Henry Fielding.
For a start, where does it end? There’s no limiting principle that would prevent the editing of nearly every great writer in the Western canon.
I've got an idea. Why don't they start with bad writers?
Homer is a cauldron of toxic masculinity
...the liberal concept (the science is settled!) that men are knuckle dragging bastards who spend all their time watching football, drinking beer, burping, farting, and thumping their women. This doesn't apply if the menare girls transitioning to boys, or boys transitioning to girls, or either transitioning to sheep...
. Chaucer, who has been removed from curricula at various universities, would need extensive re-working — for the offense of relaying 14th-century attitudes toward women, if nothing else.
I think nearly everyone reads Chaucer in translation. Those who don't go mad and say things like ""Thus, swyved was this carpenteris wyf, / For al his kepyng and his jalousye, / And Absolon hath kist hir nether ye, / And Nicholas is scalded in the towte. This tale is doon, and God save al the rowte!" Their personal pronouns become "he/hit/heo" and they develop a rash on their genetives.
As for Shakespeare, has anyone read "Othello"?
A story about a colored guy? And the Merchant of Venice should also be Bowdlermeat, give or take a pound of flesh or two..
We get the word "bowdlerize" from Thomas Bowdler, who published a version of Shakespeare more appropriate for families in the early 19th century. He meant well, but his name has become synonymous with ham-fisted editing of texts for political or social reasons.
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