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If y'all don't mind, I'm off to go change up the smile on Mona Lisa's face...it bugs me.
Funny. I was going to use that very example in my original post - something like, "Should we now paint the Mona Lisa with fuller lips, wider eyes, and lots of make-up?"
Funny. I was going to use that very example in my original post - something like, "Should we now paint the Mona Lisa with fuller lips, wider eyes, and lots of make-up?"
Naw. But she does need to be more bootylicious. And get a weave.
Yeah, I was being sarcastic - but too snarky, really. I removed my comment. After reading it a couple of times, I decided that I didn't like how it sounded.
Anyway, I really don't think that any words should be censored or forbidden. We give those "bad words" greater power when we forbid people to speak or write them.
Can't believe this, for once yes i sure do agree with you. Your correct in your analogy, the more censoring of bad words, and forbiding people to speak of them, the greater the power to those "bad words" and the more power they now possess.
Have you seen old movies lately on TV? Any and all N words are bleeped. It's funny really. You need to rent or buy the original movie to hear it. Even if black people use the N word it is not heard.
Funny. I was going to use that very example in my original post - something like, "Should we now paint the Mona Lisa with fuller lips, wider eyes, and lots of make-up?"
What's wrong with you? Of course we shouldn't!
We scan it onto the computer and Photoshop the crap out of it instead
No, I don't think the book should be censored. That defeats the point of reading the book with students. It's supposed to challenge the student's ethics... revisionism is bad no matter what cause it's done for.
No, I don't think the book should be censored. That defeats the point of reading the book with students. It's supposed to challenge the student's ethics... revisionism is bad no matter what cause it's done for.
And this goes back to a whole generation not learning the history and then perhaps repeating it.
Let's forget the Holocaust, too...it was just too upsetting.
PC gone mad. Change a word like this in a book like that and the social context is completely lost. Twain was a staunch abolionist and it is sheer literary vandalism to alter his work.
Cultural sensitivity is one thing this is simple stupidity and shows a complete lack of understanding about artistic integrity.
As Twain often said after publication, he did not use the word to offend, but because that was the way people talked back in his youth.
Interestingly, when Huck Finn was published many people were upset that the only truly 'good and honest' character in the book turned out to be the slave Tom.
Sales of Huckleberry Finn were very slow at first. However, a female author, I believe Louise May Alcott (but my memory may be faulty here, but it was a well-known female author) persuaded the Concord Public Library to ban Huck Finn. Not content with that, said female author then wrote letters to various newspaper editors (as well as to Twain) arguing that the book should be banned.
Well! Twain quickly took out large ads in the New York newspapers pointing out that his book, Huckleberry Finn, was banned for being unsuitable for civilized people, and to keep the book away from your children!
Sales shot up, Huck became a best seller, and Twain sent the lady author flowers on her birthday for the rest of her life as thanks for her help in making his book so popular. She was not amused.
PC gone mad. Change a word like this in a book like that and the social context is completely lost. Twain was a staunch abolionist and it is sheer literary vandalism to alter his work.
Cultural sensitivity is one thing this is simple stupidity and shows a complete lack of understanding about artistic integrity.
Very well said!
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