X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fbook-review-johnny-the-walrus.md;h=8e56daac4fc9226731ab83f466a76112079e5c3b;hb=HEAD;hp=eda22722513453c8fdc264c72427c76103d99de2;hpb=be7133afa5b4be490ad5be825c73a371c5b2c835;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 deleted file mode 100644 index eda2272..0000000 --- a/content/drafts/book-review-johnny-the-walrus.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ -Title: Book Review: Matt Walsh's Johnny the Walrus -Date: 2022-10-15 05:00 -Category: commentary -Tags: natalism, review (book) -Status: draft - -This is a terrible children's book that could have been great if the author could have just _pretended to be subtle_. Our protagonist, Johnny, is a kid who loves to play make-believe. One day, he pretends to be a walrus, fashioning "tusks" for himself with wooden spoons, and "flippers" from socks. Unfortunately, Johnny's mother takes him literally: she has him put on gray makeup, gives him worms to eat, and takes him to the zoo to be with the "other" walruses. - -With competent execution, this could be a great children's book! The premise is not "realistic"—no sane parent would conclude their child is _literally_ a walrus _because he said so_—but it's a kind of non-realism common in children's literature, attributing simple, caricatured motivations to characters in order to tell a silly, memorable story.