Yik Yak logo
Download TikTok Instagram X
Yik Yak icon
Join communities on Yik Yak Download
Book Club icon
🐹
Book Club 9w

izzy_the_hamster

 Some Goodreads reviews are insanely stupid. What? A book published in the 1800s has outdated language? Outrageous! And who doesn’t expect to find murder in a Sherlock Holmes novel for goodness sake. Sooty the book wasn’t censored to your standards 😒
156 upvotes, 13 comments. Yik Yak image post by izzy_the_hamster in Book Club. "Some Goodreads reviews are insanely stupid. What? A book published in the 1800s has outdated language? Outrageous! And who doesn’t expect to find murder in a Sherlock Holmes novel for goodness sake. Sooty the book wasn’t censored to your standards 😒"
comment

13
upvote 156 downvote
🐹
Anonymous 9w

For those wondering, I forgot to mention, the novel in question being the original publication of A Study in Scarlet. Yeah, there’s super outdated language in it, it was written over 130 years ago. But wanting stuff like that to be censored is fucking stupid.

upvote 54 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous 9w

It’s so funny too because a lot of indigenous people prefer “Indian” to “Native American” (I mean most prefer their tribe name to anything but a lot do have a preference to Indian as a generic term)

upvote 32 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous 9w

yeah i mean reading older books is a way of looking into the past at how people were treated and to see how far society has come. i’d prefer an accurate depiction of society back then that i can learn from rather than a sensitized version that makes me feel comfortable with my modern sensibilities. of course it’s uncomfortable, but history usually is.

upvote 26 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous 9w

“socioty” 😭😭

upvote 7 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous 9w

right like wtf were they expecting

upvote 3 downvote
🐹
Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

That and in the book they aren’t portrayed negatively, just mentioned as being stoic. Yeah kinda a stereotype but hardly something to get that enraged over. And besides other antiquated terms such as “Jew peddler”, which people might think I find offensive, because Jewish, I don’t particularly care about. It’s just what you get with a book that happens to be from the 19th century.

upvote 27 downvote
🐹
Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

I meant sorry. I think I typed sorty and it autocorrected

upvote 2 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous replying to -> izzy_the_hamster 9w

no it wasn’t you, it was in the review 😭😭

upvote 5 downvote
🐹
Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

Ohh, I thought you meant

post
upvote 3 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous replying to -> izzy_the_hamster 9w

LOL i didn’t even notice that

upvote 4 downvote
🐹
Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

I may or may not have just woken up so my brain might be a little foggy lmao

upvote 5 downvote
default user profile icon
Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

Exactly, like obviously I wish everyone in history and today were good people and there was never (racism, sexism, homophobia, etc) but that’s the unfortunate reality and trying to sanitize everything to appeal to modern sensibilities is a slippery slope to fascism. It’s much better to give warnings to help people protect their peace than outright ban or censor books we don’t like

upvote 6 downvote
🐹
Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

That’s my take. Also, compared to other books from that time, it’s actually pretty careful about stereotypes and that sort of thing. Street Arab was just a term used for homeless children at the time. Heck, even in the second book, the character of Holmes makes a comment about how “women are never to be trusted, at least not entirely” and Watson thinks of it as a horrible and disgusting remark. It’s even pretty progressive in certain ways, at least for the time.

upvote 8 downvote