You know how they said that satire died when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize? They may have been out a few decades.
It’s truly dead now.
The Sun, a paper I haven’t held in any regard since their reporting on the Hillsbrough disaster, tweeted out a link to an article yesterday. The article in question?
Snowflake students are suggesting that Frankensteins monster is misunderstood
(Note: I linked to a Vice article about the whole thing. Fuck giving The Sun clicks.)
The problem? Well, in their rush to be outraged about others outrage, they missed one big thing. If you’ve read Frankenstein, you’ll have spotted the problem. (If you haven’t, I recommend you do, it’s an amazing book.)
The whole point of the book is that the monster is misunderstood. It’s not hidden, it’s not subtext, it’s literally the point of the story.
But some people are so determined to be outraged about things that they don’t bother with the whole meddlesome reality thing.
Will
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