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[nancy drew] Also I just found out its possible I've been reading fake Nancy Drew my entire life
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From 1950s onwards, Nancy Drew books were heavily revised
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A good change: racial stereotypes were eliminated
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a bad change: that's because there's only white people in the books now
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another change:
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"In the revised books, Nancy is relentlessly upbeat, puts up with her father's increasingly protective tendencies, and, when asked if she goes to church in the 1969 The Clue of the Tapping Heels, replies, 'As often as I can'
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Nancy learns to hold her tongue; she doesn't sass the dumb cops like she used to."
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Edits to change Nancy's sass to "Nancy said, sweetly."
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I think there is valid criticism for Nancy being a privileged viewpoint character
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but idk
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I will interpret changing overt sass to sweet as like
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A southern auntie saying "well bless your heart" because it's not ladylike to say "go fuck yourself"
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Valid
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