X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fbook-review-johnny-the-walrus.md;h=9f7e665a0de2a4cc0d677fcece52b5bfc2c236af;hb=bbb4315cfe37f42c0a61994345d427d876ff06a5;hp=e056d6bbc36d7043c1dadd9c2ef1db51d91e57a2;hpb=13d2da8be8504713d190920a091dc14191cef545;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 e056d6b..9f7e665 100644 --- a/content/drafts/book-review-johnny-the-walrus.md +++ b/content/drafts/book-review-johnny-the-walrus.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ Title: Book Review: Matt Walsh's Johnny the Walrus -Date: 2021-05-15 05:00 +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_. +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. -Our protagonist, Johnny, is a kid who loves to play make-believe. +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.