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@nerdiethings
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 8:01 PM
[nancy drew] Also I just found out its possible I've been reading fake Nancy Drew my entire life
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@nerdiethings
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 8:03 PM
From 1950s onwards, Nancy Drew books were heavily revised
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@nerdiethings
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 8:03 PM
A good change: racial stereotypes were eliminated
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@nerdiethings
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 8:03 PM
a bad change: that's because there's only white people in the books now
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@nerdiethings
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 8:04 PM
another change:
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@nerdiethings
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 8:04 PM
"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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@nerdiethings
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 8:05 PM
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 8:05 PM
Nancy learns to hold her tongue; she doesn't sass the dumb cops like she used to."
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@nerdiethings
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 8:05 PM
Edits to change Nancy's sass to "Nancy said, sweetly."
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@nerdiethings
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 8:06 PM
I think there is valid criticism for Nancy being a privileged viewpoint character
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@nerdiethings
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 8:06 PM
but idk
black cat time
@MadarFoxfire
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 8:59 PM
I will interpret changing overt sass to sweet as like
black cat time
@MadarFoxfire
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 9:00 PM
A southern auntie saying "well bless your heart" because it's not ladylike to say "go fuck yourself"
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@nerdiethings
Thu, Mar 26, 2020 9:01 PM
Valid
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