Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
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At times, I look around the comments sections of other, non-Q, non-Patriot focused videos to get a different perspective on things. And at times, I find them very informative, especially on topics that are not necessarily Q-related.
Take the news about the abomination that is the Disney live-action remake of Peter Pan for example. Tim Pool recently did a video about it and the comments comes flowing in. There are a few very good comments about how stupid to add girls to the Lost Boys. Here are a couple of them:
-The big problem is adding girls to the “lost boys”. Much of the story revolves around the boys’s need for a mother, and Wendy plays that role because she’s the only girl among them. The writers don’t understand the source material.
-It's actually quite important to the story that the Lost Boys are all male. It's the entire reason that Wendy and the other Darling kids go to off to Neverland in the first place. The Lost Boys need a mother, so Peter invites them there so that Wendy can be their mother. If there already were girls there, then they would be no reason to bring Wendy. Wendy is essentially the same age as all the others, so one of the other girls could have filled that role. This would also remove the rationale for Tinker Bell constantly trying to kill Wendy, since Tink would already be used to dealing with rivals for Peter's affections. The book is about Wendy's ambivalence about her adolescence: she seeks to cling to her familiar and beloved childhood, but as she grows accustomed to her sexuality and the superpower of motherhood, the childhood games grow tiresome, and she realizes retrospectively that she has already grown up despite her efforts to avoid this, that play and make-believe just can't fulfill the way real life can. This character arc can't work if there are other girls around, because it would diminish the specialness of her femaleness. The Lost Boys can have all their fun adventures, but they need her more than anything. I'm actually kind of surprised that the woke haven't banned the book, as it very explicitly locates female empowerment with motherhood.
On the other hand, the books also explicitly explain that you can't have Lost Girls because all girls are too smart to fall out of their baby carriages. (The Lost Boys are the boys who fall out of their baby carriages while their mothers are strolling them through Kensington Garden). I'd have thought that the woke would have liked to have been able to use that.
-The lost boys being all boys was a plot point of the story. It's the whole reason Peter wanted Wendy to come with him, because he saw all women as being "mothers" and wanted Wendy to be their new mother. It was actually part of his immaturity (Peter Pan is supposed to be kind of a little prick because he actively wants to avoid all responsibility and "never grow up")
Like what's the point of making some of the lost boys not all boys? That just erases the lesson the main character needed to learn in the first place?