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Average rating3.6
Once upon a time, in the olden days, heavy-set middle-aged men would congregate in their elitist clubs, sit in over-stuffed leather chairs, smoke air-choking cigars, and pitch story ideas and plots to each other. Problem was, these stories, many of which found their way into the general social consciousness, reflected the way in which these men lived and saw their world: that is, the stories were sexist, discriminatory, unfair, culturally biased, and in general, demeaning to witches, animals, goblins, and fairies everywhere.
Finally, after centuries of these abusive tales, which have been handed down--unknowingly--from one male-biased generation to the next, James Finn Garner has taken it upon himself (that's right, yet another man) to enlighten and liberate these classic bedtime stories and retell them in a way that is much more in keeping with the society in which we live today.
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, then is the fruit of Garner's labors. We'd like to think that future generations of fairy-tale fans will see this as a worthy attempt to develop meaningful literature that is totally free from bias and purged from the influences of a flawed cultural past.
--front flap
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Excellent. Tous les contes de l'enfance revus et policés à la sauce politiquement correcte. Très drôle donc.
I read this my freshman year of college and laughed my booty off! This was such a great example of how people can take political correctness too far. All of the familiar fairy tales, Little Red Riding Hood for example, are reworked and every possible politically correct phrase you can imagine is in this book. It's good for a laugh whenver you need to be reminded that being PC can be a drag!
Series
3 primary booksPolitically Correct Bedtime Stories is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1994 with contributions by James Finn Garner and Daniel Depland.