James Bond, the double-oh-seven man of mystery and intrigue of Ian Fleming’s famous spy novels, and the character who made many a movie star even bigger movie stars, is
The newly issued spy novels will also include disclaimers, something akin to: “This book was written at a time when terms and attitudes which might be considered offensive by modern readers were commonplace.”The Bond series is just the latest target of woke-happy snowflakes who think they can gaslight their way into nirvana.
And don’t forget Disney with its ridiculous cave to LGBTQ culture with a policy to remove the tags, “ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,” from its Magic Kingdom greetings. Again, with the inclusion. Thing is, to make characters come alive, to make them believable and real and true, whether in print or in film, it’s necessary to use the verbiage of the day, the references of the time, the tones and attitudes and phrasings and rhetoric and descriptors of the era. Conversation is illuminating in oh-so-many ways; it’s not only what the person says that clues the reader to his or her personality, motivations and secret, subtle unstated character traits — it’s how the person says it.