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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2021-12-04 04:19 pm
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(Anonymous) 2021-12-04 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Even Blyton's original publisher rejected one of her books on the grounds it was too racist even for fifties Britain. How racist ya gotta be to outracist fifties Britain?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-04 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
God damn

(Anonymous) 2021-12-04 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Not quite as racist as fifties America.

(Anonymous) 2021-12-04 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
....

(Anonymous) 2021-12-04 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Not a high bar to clear.

(Anonymous) 2021-12-05 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
God now I'm curious how damn racist it is, and I've read Lovecraft before.

(Anonymous) 2021-12-05 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
She wrote a book about a black doll who was rejected by everyone until the doll was washed and revealed to be white.

ayrt

(Anonymous) 2021-12-05 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Holy shit, oh my god.

(Anonymous) 2021-12-04 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a live action series in the nineties that did this.

(Anonymous) 2021-12-04 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Not OP, but that sounds interesting. Did the story hold up?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-04 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I was a kid so take this with a pinch of salt, but I think so??

(Anonymous) 2021-12-04 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Here you go: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Famous_Five_(1995_TV_series)

(Anonymous) 2021-12-04 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
As far as I remember, the budget was about £2.50, the acting was fine-ish (George was played by a young Jemima Rooper), so it was... fine-ish. Kirrin Island looked awful. The glorious summer days looked brisk at best. It was all very budget. I think some episodes are on YouTube if you're curious.

Not the OP, but I'd like to see a reboot that brings it up to date (and has a bigger budget than loose change), like The Baby-Sitters Club on Netflix. Also, if it toned Julian down, that would be terrific. He's insufferable!

(Anonymous) 2021-12-05 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
I still have the compilation book that I got for my fifth birthday (three books in one), and I’m kinda terrified to go back through it bc of how racist she was :( I guess it’ll live on in my memory
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[personal profile] chamonix 2021-12-05 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
Not to mention the eyewatering misogyny

(Anonymous) 2021-12-05 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
That was also present in her boarding school books a LOT which is especially jarring considering the cast is almost purely female. The pure loathing for every single female character with interests in make-up, accessorising or fashion. And the fat shaming, dear lord.
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[personal profile] chamonix 2021-12-05 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah it's absolutely poisonous. I used to devour everything Enid Blyton when I was younger, and then had a super not-like-the-other-girls phase in my early teens. I don't think the two were unrelated.

(Anonymous) 2021-12-05 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
it’s funny how Astrid Lindgren (author of Pippi Longstocking) can recognise and apologise for making a white guy king of a bunch of cannibal savages but Enid Blyton absolutely failed to even recognise how racist she was

(Anonymous) 2021-12-06 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I know there's old racist stuff in the Pippi stories, but I didn't know Lindgren had acknowledged them and apologized. That's cool.
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