Roald Dahl was my favourite author as a child but his books have some pretty terrible messages about women.
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Women are dangerous:
The owner of your orphanage is awful
Your headmistress will lock you in the chokey.
And any woman might just be a witch.
The woman in the sweet shop? Mean and filthy.
Your grandmother’s a wicked witch who plagues you;
Your aunts, abusive. And your mother’s dead.
You’re better off with giants in the desert.
You’ll gain the power to frighten your headmistress
The witches, you can kill in self defence.
Your grandmother deserves to be reduced
To non existence, aunts squashed flat. But mother
Is never coming back. You’re on your own.
Tom Juniper Poetry 