The classic stories are in the sights of the debate. Today we have known that a public school in Barcelona He removed from his library 'Little Red Riding Hood' and another 200 classic children's stories for considering them "toxic" and reproducing sexist patterns.
When reviewing the library catalog of books for children between two and six years old, they found that most of them reinforce gender stereotypes and promote values that are not suitable for children. Of all, only 10 percent passed equally.
'The legend of Sant Jordi' is one of the retired, also titles lifelong as 'Sleeping Beauty' or 'The Three Little Pigs'.
Stories of other times
Traditional stories were written many years ago, many of them in the Middle Ages, and they represent the models of society of those times.
They tell stories of women whose only virtue is beauty and whose only destiny is marriage, often even without freedom to choose her husband. Women's happiness is in marriage, while man's role is identified with the achievement of battles, violence and strength.
That the same is better to explain the social context, historical moment, etc. in which those stories have been written. The veto books I think we have seen before and so, as a solution, it does not seem optimal. But what am I going to know? //t.co/jgxUTLpPjv
- Shark UnderTheSea 🦈🦖🌈 (@babsimon) April 11, 2019
In Babies and more "And the wolf did not eat Little Red Riding Hood", parents changed the end of the classic stories to be violent or politically incorrectAnd not only sexists ...
And they don't just reproduce sexist patterns. They also encourage violence (the wolf ate Little Red Riding Hood), the abuse (Hansel and Gretel), the inequality (The three little pigs), the harassment and discrimination (The Ugly Duckling), the submission from the strongest over the weakest (the stepmother forcing Cinderella to do all the housework) ... and so we could continue with an endless list of negative and uneducated values for the little ones.
The boy who is not allowed to read Little Red Riding Hood as a sexist is the boy who will not be allowed to read Tom Sawyer as a racist, the young man who will be banned by Lolita as immoral and the adult who will only read what the Council of Wise Men Who Knows That Agrees. Let's stop this. //t.co/sJ0ElSGhW5
- Miguel Ángel Quintana Paz (@quintanapaz) April 11, 2019
What do we do with them?
The question we ask ourselves when we see the debate that has been created is, what do we do with the books of classic stories? Do we remove them from libraries? Do we remove them from libraries?
We cannot judge those stories from the current perspective. Classic children's stories are that, classics from another time. Many of them with values that we do not want today for our children, but which are also part of our culture. I believe that censorship is not the solutionbut in that parents have the freedom to choose the stories they read to their children, or put at your disposal.
Since then thousands and thousands of children's stories have been written that foster more appropriate values to our time and that we can choose, there are even many stories adapted from the classics with different endings or eliminated the negative messages of the original versions.
I have already read my daughters the classic stories (and this is a personal opinion) because I want grow critically. As we read we always comment and at the time when something we squeaky of history we have commented (How awful!, How strong that the wolf eats Little Red Riding Hood!, Too bad the princess can't decide who to marry, right?). I have always explained to them that they are tales from another era that reflect the society of that time in which certain stereotypes were normalized.
These are some of the comments of users on Twitter against the withdrawal of stories. But each parent is free to choose what he wants for his children. Another thing is that the school decides for them.
And instead of creating a census commission that vetoes titles from a library, wouldn't it be better to create a commission that encourages reading and brings children closer to books with a critical spirit? //t.co/dJNx0LwOGW
- Marta G. Aller (@GarciaAller) April 11, 2019
A school in Barcelona removes 200 children's stories from its library by sexists.
- Pilar Diz (@pilar_diz) April 11, 2019
Next, burn Shakespeare's "Othello" because Othello strangles Desdemona. Or "El cantar de mío Cid", where his daughters end up crushed to sticks by their husbands.//t.co/ncRQqAl5rx
Censoring books is always bad. Prohibiting culture is always negative. It is about educating, of understanding where we come from and where we want to go. Without a past, we are doomed to repeat it. //t.co/FpOAQTBOmn
- Flanagan McPhee (@FlanaganMcPhee) April 11, 2019
In Babies and more A mother proposes to eliminate the story of "Sleeping Beauty" because it includes an inappropriate sexual message for children
