The Politically Correct Ultimate Storybook by James Finn Garner

The woodsman (who saves Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother in the most well-known versions of the tale) ends up beheaded by the grandmother, who leaps from the wolf's mouth of her own accord after a 'stirring' moralizing speech from Red, who states that womyn and wolves can solve their own problems without a man's interference. The following is a listing of the stories in the order they appear in the book.īased on the popular fairy tale of the same name, this parody includes as its main themes mocking the idea of anti-' speciesism' and the more radical branches and concepts of feminism (such as using the spelling ' womyn' instead of 'women' throughout, a pattern that is repeated in other stories in the book), and is one of the several stories in which the ending is completely altered from the original fairy tale. In 2018, Garner released 'Politically Correct Pinocchio'. All editions of the Politically Correct titles are currently out of print. In 1998, the three books were compiled into an omnibus collection called Politically Correct: The Ultimate Storybook. Garner wrote two follow-up books: Once upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories and Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For an Enlightened Yuletide Season, the latter book satirizing political correctness during the Christmas holiday season. More than 2.5 million copies have been sold in the United States and it has since been translated into 20 languages. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories was Garner's first published book (or, in the words of his similarly satirical biography blurb from the book, 'his first processed tree carcass').

The revisions include extensive usage of politically correct buzzwords (and parodies thereof), deliberately stiff moralizing dialogue and narration, inclusion of modern concepts and objects (such as health spas, mineral water, and automobiles), and often feature a plot twist that reverses the roles of the heroes and villains of the story (for example, the woodsman in Little Red Riding Hood is seen by Red Riding Hood not as a heroic saviour but as a 'sexist' and 'speciesist' interloper, and Snow White's evil stepmother ends up with a positive portrayal while the prince and the seven dwarves are portrayed as chauvinistic). The bulk of the book consists of fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Little Pigs and Snow White, rewritten so that they represent what a politically correct adult would consider a good and moral tale for children. My Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times is a 1994 book written by American writer James Finn Garner, in which Garner satirizes the trend toward political correctness and censorship of children's literature, with an emphasis on humour and parody.

The Politically Correct Ultimate Storybook by James Finn Garner