X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fbook-review-johnny-the-walrus.md;h=2a7b3cb843213a332b34faab191f77dca196e950;hb=d665253469d9e1004bacdc2557c36f278d158c28;hp=547d26ac2e9b95fce8d1dd0c1da5520acbfc9673;hpb=8a1d4355d1cdc72ea97d465c7a761a28f2fbdf55;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-johnny-the-walrus.md b/content/drafts/book-review-johnny-the-walrus.md index 547d26a..2a7b3cb 100644 --- a/content/drafts/book-review-johnny-the-walrus.md +++ b/content/drafts/book-review-johnny-the-walrus.md @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ But Matt Walsh completely flubs the execution by making it a satire rather than Rather than being a silly non-realistic children's-literature grown-up, Johnny's mother is portrayed as being duped by social media and medical authorities. ("But Johnny's mom's phone said it's not just pretend / 'Only a bigot would say that! How dare you offend!'", with angry emoji and inverted Facebook thumbs-up icons bubbling out of her phone into the scene.) We get illustrations of protesters bearing signs saying "Human Walruses Are REAL Walruses", "Literally Walrusphobic", "He/Him/Walrux", _&c_. The worms come in an orange pill-type bottle labeled "Wormones." (Separately, walruses don't eat worms, but that's not the main problem here from a literary perspective.) [TODO: spoil the plot, and mention the Walsh-as-Zookeeper easter egg] +[TODO: walrus diet link] The satirical real-world references (which do not earn the dignity of the word _allusions_) completely ruin the mood, to the extent that I don't think this is really a book _for_ children. (Not even an ideological book for children, meant to socialize them into the correct beliefs.) It's a novelty "children's book" for the brief amusement of ideologically conservative grown-ups.