X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fbook-review-johnny-the-walrus.md;h=e056d6bbc36d7043c1dadd9c2ef1db51d91e57a2;hb=HEAD;hp=bc0f60046ff517c0ebc2ee53c877b55aa2891ce6;hpb=e3cbb6d35838cfb47e2880031ddf1021b9529d23;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 bc0f600..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_](/tag/deniably-allegorical/). 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. Uh-oh! Will Johnny have to live as a "walrus" forever? - -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. If there happens to be an obvious analogy between the silly, memorable story and an ideological fad affecting otherwise-sane parents in the current year ...