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What’s Roald Dahl’s Problem With Women?

From Perspectives on Pop Culture - February 4, 2023

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ProfessorMeredith
Nov 15, 2023
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It’s old news that Roald Dahl is…well, “problematic” is the polite euphemism to use, I suppose.

The more accurate phrase would be “so wildly anti-semitic that his own family apologized for it 30 years after his death”. For all that, his work has survived as some of the most popular children’s literature through criticism and multiple attempts at banning …

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