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minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoIn fairness, Lewis Carroll and J.M. Barrie were also pretty problematic in their own ways. Not sure about Baum. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/lewis-carrolls-shifting-reputation-9432378/ https://www.casemateipm.com/blog/2025/01/03/the-complex-life-of-j-m-barrie-author-of-peter-pan/ Turns out Baum was also problematic, just “not that way!” https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/10/27/130862391/l-frank-baum-advocated-extermination-of-native-americans
minus-squareCruxifux@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoOh I know they were. Lewis Carroll was almost certainly a pedophile himself wasn’t he? Like that doesn’t make this okay thought.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 days agoCarroll and Barrie both had problematic relationships with children.
In fairness, Lewis Carroll and J.M. Barrie were also pretty problematic in their own ways. Not sure about Baum.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/lewis-carrolls-shifting-reputation-9432378/
https://www.casemateipm.com/blog/2025/01/03/the-complex-life-of-j-m-barrie-author-of-peter-pan/
Turns out Baum was also problematic, just “not that way!”
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/10/27/130862391/l-frank-baum-advocated-extermination-of-native-americans
Oh I know they were. Lewis Carroll was almost certainly a pedophile himself wasn’t he?
Like that doesn’t make this okay thought.
Carroll and Barrie both had problematic relationships with children.