“[I]nclusive school programming may allow children to perceive . . . reindeer such as Rudolph as a reindeer, not as a ‘red-nosed reindeer’.”
Susan Gately, “A Textual Deconstruction of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: Utilitarian, Mechanistic, and Static Constructions of Disability in Society and in Schools” Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 9:1, January 2008, wherein we happily learn that “Rudolph eventually rejects the institutionalized notion that one with a red nose has no worth.”
8 comments:
sp?
eh?
"Raindeer"?
Tsk. Well spotted. If I earned any money from this blog, I would have to pay you a small fee as editor. A small fee, mind.
I always valued the climate-sensitive Rudolph, despite his leftist tendencies, for as I told my wife, "Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear."
Jeffery Hodges
* * *
Shocking, Prof. Hodges. It does remind me of the punchline of a old joke (too long and terrible to recount):
For Hans that do dishes is as soft as Gervais, with mild green, hairy-lip squid.
(Those who haven't seen the Fairy liquid advert won't appreciate it.)
What!
My charge is fifty guineas. Or tuppence to you, Squire.
Post a Comment