I'm screaming - 10yo has just been telling me that his schoolteacher asked his class to write down the worst things about Scrooge, as an exercise to prepare them for writing little plays of A Christmas Carol, and one kid wrote "unfuckable bitch"
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Tbf we dine out on stories like this. Like the time I got my 8/9 year olds to do cartoon strips of the Battle of Bosworth and the swords were not very swordlike…
Honestly a much more succinct way of describing him than the intro song the Muppets did. Coulda skipped that whole thing and just had Gonzo call him an “unfuckable bitch”. Rizzo’s reaction would have been *amazing*.
I for one find it refreshing that young people, while admittedly using the language of misogyny, are redirecting it to the target of old, rich white men. 'Rupert Murdoch is an unfuckable bitch' see we can all play this game.
I doubt the said boy knew As a term, it is comparable to prick and means "a fool, a dolt, an unpleasant person – of either sex". It is common in England and Australia, where it is usually applied to men or as referring specifically to "a despicable, contemptible or foolish" man.
Except that it is toxically misogynistic and encourages
teaching people, especially these impressionable boys that”it is acceptable to use any female bitches to express you rage—mainly on the female of the species. The creator of Scrooge was a prime example in his personal life. Prick?
Are you super sure you don't want to spend Christmas witnessing an agonising series of posts on if the description is supported by the text, if Scrooge was on the autism spectrum, the social implications of a child saying bad words, and getting scolded by professionally irritating academics?
Is that really fair? Do we get a physical description of Scrooge in the novel? For all we know, Scrooge could have been a devastating handsome MILF (Miser I’d Love to F***), with a thicc derrière.
You cannot tell me that, regardless of how he looks, that man would make sure you had an orgasm. Not when he certainly wouldn't even make sure the room is warm enough to disrobe.
Handsomeness and being unfuckability are not mutually exclusive categories. Being unfuckable can be a result of personality or ethics. Also, we do get this description, only partly physical, but it does suggest that this kid pretty much nailed it.
the parents aren't teaching them this. Someone showed them a video on their older sibs phone which they probably aren't allowed access to so they clung to the worst thing they heard. We had a kindergarten near witch trial to find out which kid shared the word "gun" - it was a cousin over Xmas break.
we were at a Waldorf school and no media as allowed. So gun to them was as bad as this is to a public or normal school. We tried to cover their eyes passing video displays in Times Square lest they repeat something and be expelled - the stress was too much in the end and we left.
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He's a lonely and miserable Grinch.
He's not going home to a hot trophy wife, which he obviously has the money to support.
I think it's a distinct possibility.
Hilarious
To a misogynist
Gross
To everyone else Caspar
Either this or Flick's mom over the phone in A Christmas Story :-)
That's kinda brilliant 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
teaching people, especially these impressionable boys that”it is acceptable to use any female bitches to express you rage—mainly on the female of the species. The creator of Scrooge was a prime example in his personal life. Prick?
To bad you missed it.
"Unfuckable green piece of shit" is right there.
Who am I kidding, I just love the Grinch.
“It’s the day for you to get roasted like a goose, binch”