[Politically Correct Bedtime Stories 01] • Cuentos Infantiles Políticamente Correctos

En tiempos muy lejanos, para amenizar las reuniones, era costumbre relatarse historias los unos a a los otros. Aquellas narraciones orales, muchas de la cuales llegaron a abrirse camino hasta formar parte del dominio público, reflejaban el modo de vida de la sociedad de entonces. Eran cuentos sexistas, discriminatorios, injustos, culturalmente tendenciosos y denigrantes, para las brujas, los animales, los duendes y las hadas de este mundo.

Afortunadamente, James Finn Garner ha rescatado aquellas narraciones clásicas (Caperucita Roja, Blancanieves y los siete enanitos, etc…), contándolas de nuevo con un delicioso sentido del humor y de un modo mucho más aceptable para la sociedad de nuestros días, libre por completo de tendenciosidad y limpio de las influencias de un pasado culturalmente sospechoso, a años luz de la perfección que ampara todo lo políticamente correcto.

James Finn Garner has taken 12 time-tested tales and retold them with the newfound sensitivity of our times. Here's a snippet from "Little Red Riding Hood":

The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone."

Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid, worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way."

Leap into a fairy-tale world where trolls are "dirt-accomplished and odor-enhanced," witches are "kindness-impaired," and Cinderella wears a gown "woven of silk stolen from unsuspecting silkworms." We can only regret that Garner had to exclude "The Duckling That Was Judged on Its Personal Merits and Not on Its Physical Appearance" for space reasons.