Politically Correct Bedtime Stories - James Finn Garner

Published by Souvenir Press Ltd.: London, 2001 (1994).

This ridiculous and very short book retells a number of classic bedtime stories in a tongue-in-cheek version of "political correctness." As an example of what this looks like, when introducing the three bears, our narrator comments that "they all lived together anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this, of course, since the nuclear family has traditionally served to enslave womyn, instil a self-righteous moralism in its members, and imprint rigid notions of heterosexuality roles onto the next generation. Nevertheless, they tried to be happy and took steps to avoid these pitfalls, such as naming their offspring the non-gender-specific 'Baby'." (page 39)

The stories within are all like this, and many diverge from the plot of the original quite substantially - usually in a manner that makes a joke about what 'politically correctness' might deem to be a 'better' outcome.

Kind of funny. Occasionally a bit rude. 

Nothing too exciting overall, but a fun concept.

Completed 23 January 2023.

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