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Unfortunate narrator doing Native American accents that sound as racist as the fact they’re referred to in the text as ‘savages’- it’s from the perspective of an early 1900s man and the author was of that era too so it’s not really surprising, just disappointing; a radical feminist novel still stuck in colonialist sentiment- but I’m going to stick it out and see what happens when they arrive in Herland
— Nov 25, 2024 05:58AM
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This book is described as a story of a radically feminist utopia that is still relevant today- this is absolutely not true.
This was written in the early 20th century and we can overlook some things by remembering the text’s historical context, but this struck me as a horribly problematic with a pro-eugenics stance that places the white “aryan” society that “breeds out” imperfection as perfect.
— Nov 25, 2024 10:32AM
This was written in the early 20th century and we can overlook some things by remembering the text’s historical context, but this struck me as a horribly problematic with a pro-eugenics stance that places the white “aryan” society that “breeds out” imperfection as perfect.
