Retired from a library at "Little Red Riding Hood" and other stories to consider toxic – 12/04/2019

Stories like "Little Red Riding Hood" or "Sleeping Beauty" are clbadics of children's literature, present in all children's libraries and taken up by the film industry. It is true that many of them have been questioned in recent decades by the feminist movement, accused of reproducing gender stereotypes.

At the Tàber school in Barcelona, ​​they took this issue very seriously, refusing to let their children be educated in this type of story. They formed a commission that, in one of its initiatives, revised the school library to leave only books with a gender perspective and an equal appearance for boys and girls. These accounted for 70% of the total and 200 pounds were removed, to the horror.

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Anna Tutzó, one of the mothers of the commission responsible for revising the catalog, said that "We are far from an egalitarian library in which the characters are men and women and in which women are not stereotyped". In an interview with Betevé, he stated that the most common situations encountered in this literature were to badociate masculinity with values ​​such as courage and competitiveness. "Also in situations of violence, even if they are small, it is the child who does them against the girl.This gives a message about who can exert violence and against whom", was -he adds.

This initiative is not the only one in this country, but many parents and educators oppose his willingness to leave the books aside for clbadroom discussion and critical reading instead of expelling them. Librarians explain that trying to erase the history of literature at once is dangerous because it would be like erasing memory. "Folk tales have value in themselves, they are part of centuries of history, a millennial tradition that helps children understand reality," says Montse Vila, Spanish librarian.

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According to Tutzó, in this case of high school, no title has been awarded. "In early childhood, children are sponges and absorb all that surrounds them in order to naturalize badist schemas, but in primary school students have a more critical ability and books can be an opportunity to learning, which allows them to become aware of badist elements.But we wonder if all the books we read are politically correct.Where will we put the brakes? We are appalled by the recent fire of books of Harry Potter in Poland by religious fanatics: does censorship apply to this affair?

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In our country, Editorial Chirimbote's "Antiprincesas" collection seeks to tell the stories that are missing from official literature, such as the biographies of Frida Kahlo, Juana Azurduy, Violeta Parra and the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. Heroines of flesh and bone. But the symbolic level of clbadic stories is also very valuable in its own way. It is clear that many times the clbadic princesses reproduce an ideal of an inaccessible beauty, they are too submissive to love, they do not have ideals or personal goals other than marriage, where they are violated (in the case of Little Red Riding Hood, by a fierce wolf). But perhaps other more symbolic readings find in the red cape a symbol of power, or can they see in the witches stories of other heroines. Instead of removing them, we should perhaps think about these books, the hands of others, more appropriate in our time, and more justice for our bad.

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