Jess Limb

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since May 16, 2001

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May 16, 2001, on Little Red Riding Hood:
I have been researching Little Red Riding Hood for an assignment, and it is interesting to see how many different versions there are of the story. I have come across another politically correct version, and I find it peculiar that they are not consistent with each other. In the other version the wolf and the "log-fuel technician" (?) have revenge on LRRH and Grandma. I, too, don't quite understand why it is necessary to mess with the text in order to produce a story which doesn't offend people (if indeed it does). The fact is that it is a fable from many years before anybody even thought of political correctness. If people wish to write stories in a pc manner, then feel free; but changing a fable so that it loses its original moral (the whole point of a fable) does seem to be taking it a bit far. I don't have a problem acknowledging that I am from "man." What is a "myn" after all?