Underrated part of womanhood is realizing you’re just like. allowed to go outside looking like shit
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theres so many things wrong here i want to Scream hollywood is such a fuckjng mess
you all know why lord of the flies was written about little boys? golding very specifically believed that 1) he was not qualified to write about little girls as he had never experienced being one 2) he did not believe that the same events would transpire if it had been girls because he thought boys behaviour more likely to paint a picture of (male dominated) society and its problems. you can’t keep a female version of the story ‘faithful’ to the book because then it would be unfaithful to what the author was originally trying to portray. why dont you go and spit on goldings grave while you’re at it too.
Wasn’t LOTF also written in response to an older book that kind of depicted British boys/men as the golden children of reason and civilization, and Golding, who taught at a boys’ school, was like “lol have you met any actual boys”
Yeah, the other book was The Coral Island, which was super popular at the time and depicted a bunch of shipwrecked British schoolboys bringing civilization to the savage natives of a Pacific island. Golding looked at that and looked at the boys he taught and went “haha, no.” People are always looking at it as a statement about human nature, but it’s more of a statement about British society and particularly about the culture of British boys’ boarding schools, which, if all the books about or inspired by such schools are anything to go on, was thoroughly horrifying.
You could do a thing where a bunch of girls are stranded on an island and end up replicating the social dynamics of girls’ schools, but it wouldn’t be the same kind of statement (I mean, part of the thing about boys’ boarding schools in the UK is that many of the boys who attend them end up as politicians or in other influential positions in society where they can then replicate those dynamics on a grand scale) and also I have zero faith that two men would do a good job of it.