Once Upon A More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories Audiobook
Once Upon A More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories Audiobook
- James Finn Garner
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 1995-06-01
- 1 h 0 min
Summary:
The hilarious sequel to the #1 phenomenon Politically Correct Bedtime Tales.
‘If we are able to cleanse these stories and put an end to the lies our kids are spoon-fed while becoming spoon-fed…the world may finally become a decent place for persunkind and other, equally important species.’ — James Finn Garner
Spurred by the overpowering success of the million-copy bestseller, Politically Right Bedtime Stories, Adam Finn Garner proceeds his quest to liberate ‘classic’ fairy tales from their about Once Upon A FAR MORE Enlightened Period: More Politically Right Bedtime Stories archaic, sexist, ageist, classist, lookist and environmentally unsound prejudices.
In Once Upon A More Enlightened Period, Garner tackles many demeaning, culturally biased viewpoints through his retelling of such well-known tales as ‘The Princess as well as the Pea’ and ‘The Tortoise and the Hare.’ He provides striven to style these bedtime stories into literature that is totally free from bias and purged from the influences of the flawed cultural past hoping of freeing our social consciousness from these blights.
If he succeeds, no longer will tortoises, hares, talking frogs and various other citizens of nature bear the burden of our insecurities. No more will mer-people suffer because of their unique evolutionary niche. No longer will able young womyn sleep their lives apart waiting for princes to come rescue them.