Speaking of not making sense...

...there's this article, which argues that Go the Bleep to Sleep isn't funny because there are children in the world who live in profanity-filled, abusive and neglectful environments.

At moments, actually, the author seems to be channelling Gurdon, except she seems to be suggesting that adults shouldn't read about hard things, either. Or maybe it's only funny things that make light of hard things that are problematic? Or funny things that don't overthink every single iteration of every single possible interpretation? I'm not sure.

Obviously it isn't funny that there are children who live in environments like that.

But, you know... there's this thing called satire. If she doesn't think it's funny*, that's fine. There are still people who think Jonathan Swift was for real.

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*I say this as someone who is fully on the Haven't-We-Had-Enough-Of-This-Book bandwagon. Slow news day, CNN?