#i just stumbled on this interview with someone who wrote a new retelling of mansfield park
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I'm sorry, but if you call Fanny Price (or any female character) insipid, I don't want to hear anything else you have to say.
#manfield park#jane austen#i just stumbled on this interview with someone who wrote a new retelling of mansfield park#the story as they told it doesn't sound like something i'm interested in#but since they framed it as a family saga i thought maybe their thoughts on the novel would be worthwhile#not far into the interview they say that their version of fanny isn't as pious and insipid as the original#like she doesn't need to lie down after a short walk#and first off the word insipid is an immediate turn-off#because it just seems like the word everyone uses for any quiet or anxious character and it feels like a personal attack#but also 'needs to rest after a short walk' DO YOU MEAN CHRONIC ILLNESS??#JANE AUSTEN CENTERS HER STORY AROUND A DISABLED CHARACTER#AND YOU THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE ERASED???#YOU THINK A DISABLED CHARACTER IS UNWORTHY TO BE THE CENTER OF A STORY??#shame on you! dishonor on your book! dishonor on your cow!
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manfield park#jane austen#i just stumbled on this interview with someone who wrote a new retelling of mansfield park#the story as they told it doesn't sound like something i'm interested in#but since they framed it as a family saga i thought maybe their thoughts on the novel would be worthwhile#not far into the interview they say that their version of fanny isn't as pious and insipid as the original#like she doesn't need to lie down after a short walk#and first off the word insipid is an immediate turn-off#because it just seems like the word everyone uses for any quiet or anxious character and it feels like a personal attack#but also 'needs to rest after a short walk' DO YOU MEAN CHRONIC ILLNESS??#JANE AUSTEN CENTERS HER STORY AROUND A DISABLED CHARACTER#AND YOU THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE ERASED???#YOU THINK A DISABLED CHARACTER IS UNWORTHY TO BE THE CENTER OF A STORY??#shame on you! dishonor on your book! dishonor on your cow!
I'm sorry, but if you call Fanny Price (or any female character) insipid, I don't want to hear anything else you have to say.
#couldn't have said it better myself#couldn’t resist including the tags#as a disabled person myself I feel attacked by the mentioned modern author#seriously/ there is an actual Regency era novel about a disabled person who is the heroine of the story#and a heroine everyone praises at the end for being smarter and stronger then the rest#and yet modern contemporary writers say “shy equals dumb”#seriously#books#things i like#mansfield park#jane austen
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