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11/23/09
That said, having just read her blog, she comes across as wide-eyed and adorable- reading her reaction over meeting Chloë Sevigny and not meeting Hedi Slimane, she seems as much an excitable fourteen year old as anyone, privilege and extraordinary circumstances notwithstanding, I guess.
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ETA: apparently her dad is a 'high-school teacher,' but no comment on what her mum does.
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Haven't they been running that competition for a while now? Like, pre-ANTM days?
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08/04/09
The entire series is about sharing what you have with others, from Laura's penny to Almanzo's ride for wheat for the whole community. While there's a lot of emphasis on self-reliance, it's more communal and familial than individualistic.
08/04/09
I agree. And also add a tired, sarcastic, "And libertarians NEVER share! We get kicked out of libertarian-land if we do."
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DeSmet remained a hard place to live well into my dad's childhood. Grandma suffered through the dust bowl. Dad went to school in a one-room schoolhouse. The family farm had no electricity and no running water.
08/04/09
In any case, while I see how these bits are offensive, I do think they present a good opportunity for parents to talk to their children about race in America. It is absolutely a fact that in the Ingalls' time, people were racist and ignorant and full of grotesque notions about "the other." I think it's a mistake to reject these books because they include those elements or try to whitewash the racism out of them. Hiding our problems doesn't help anybody.
I have a hard time believing that anyone, even a child, reading the books now would go, "Yeah! We should kill all the Indians! Minstrel shows for everyone!" If you are growing up in an environment where statements like those are seen as plausible in any way, you've got problems that are way bigger than Little House.
08/04/09
I think that with the right attitude, these can be very educational.
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She might have been frumpy, middle-aged and depressive when she helped her mother craft those indelible stories, but it's worth acknowledging she seems an intrepid, fearless journalist before then. I do have to respect that, she was successful at it, muck-raking or not. She knew how to spin a story, it seems. A complicated lady. Interesting, had a pang of remembrance, her birth in the "Little House" books! So that's what she went on to.. pretty great article.
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I started crying hysterically, and my mom was horrified that they included that in a children's book.
Needless to say, we moved on to Anne of Green Gables the next night. No more Little House stories for me!
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