Ronan Farrow had some hot takes for Twitter on Sunday – specifically that we reexamine some highly hated figures in children’s literature and see if they don’t deserve a new assessment. His examples included Miss Trunchbull in Matilda and Harry Potter’s Dolores Umbridge.
To which we say…yikes.
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It all started with this Sunday tweet about Miss Trunchbull from Roald Dahl’s Matilda.
Is Miss Trunchbull in Matilda misunderstood? She’s a pathbreaking Olympic athlete who seems to own her sexuality. She’s a harsh disciplinarian, but it seems like she had an unhappy life and her fate—being gaslit and driven insane—is as sadistic as anything she inflicts on others.
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) May 20, 2018 Read more…
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