ext_7386 ([identity profile] ex-ajhalluk585.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] trennels 2005-08-31 07:48 pm (UTC)

But has anyone, ever, inquired whether Commander Marlow's parenting skills and his job are perhaps one reason why the Marlow children are as they are?

You mean,I presume, apart from a statistically significant percentage of this community in various pubs around the country, in various piss-ups at which I have been personally present?

What culture are you talking about here? The "culture" in which Antonia Forest's works are a vital and important text? Well, if you're proposing to interrogate them, in the words of Anthony Merrick "that's half an hour of your life accounted for, then".

In what "culture" is it a "given" to demand the above, and why do you assume that that culture reads onto this culture, without pause for consideration?

Your culture may be inordinately sexist - in which case I offer you my sincere condolences - but I'm from Lancashire.

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