Love this discussion, and thank you for your humor and clarity, XO Romance. Perhaps this whole Book-Banning thing should be answered with more humor and satire and we should start a (satirical) ban on Jane Austen. We could organize demos at libraries (and enlist the awesomeness of librarians), send out (satirical) press releases, drawing much-needed attention to the patriarchy-smashing, boundary-busting aspects of Jane, which perhaps are potentially dangerous for our kids (LOL). Austen's books examine social and economic disparities, ridicule entitlement, rarely portray a happy marriage (sometimes even the ones that provide her HEA are questionable!), and interrogate the established order - sounds dangerous to me!
I love this! "Perhaps this whole Book-Banning thing should be answered with more humor and satire." I'm afraid they would take a campaign to ban Jane Austen seriously! But it would certainly get attention for the cause. Cheers to Jane, always.
Can you imagine some mass read-ins tho? Could be a super fun introvert party!
Honestly YES love the read-in idea! Am going to have to think about this! I feel with the chaos and disinformation culture we're in, responses that center humor and attention and joy (and media literacy) might be just the thing.
I couldn't agree more with this: "I feel with the chaos and disinformation culture we're in, responses that center humor and attention and joy (and media literacy) might be just the thing."
Love this discussion, and thank you for your humor and clarity, XO Romance. Perhaps this whole Book-Banning thing should be answered with more humor and satire and we should start a (satirical) ban on Jane Austen. We could organize demos at libraries (and enlist the awesomeness of librarians), send out (satirical) press releases, drawing much-needed attention to the patriarchy-smashing, boundary-busting aspects of Jane, which perhaps are potentially dangerous for our kids (LOL). Austen's books examine social and economic disparities, ridicule entitlement, rarely portray a happy marriage (sometimes even the ones that provide her HEA are questionable!), and interrogate the established order - sounds dangerous to me!
I love this! "Perhaps this whole Book-Banning thing should be answered with more humor and satire." I'm afraid they would take a campaign to ban Jane Austen seriously! But it would certainly get attention for the cause. Cheers to Jane, always.
Can you imagine some mass read-ins tho? Could be a super fun introvert party!
Honestly YES love the read-in idea! Am going to have to think about this! I feel with the chaos and disinformation culture we're in, responses that center humor and attention and joy (and media literacy) might be just the thing.
I couldn't agree more with this: "I feel with the chaos and disinformation culture we're in, responses that center humor and attention and joy (and media literacy) might be just the thing."
:-)