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Raggedy Ann and Andy.. Wall hangings!

They daydream atop my cloud-shaped window valance!

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297. Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977)

5/10

If I could rename this movie, I would call it Raggedy Ann and Andy Promote Gender Roles and Heteronormativity. In the first twenty minutes it expects me to somehow appreciate a "male" toy wanting to belong to a boy child, rather than a girl. According to him, this is because little girls don't wrestle or climb trees or whatever (do you think the writers ever met a little girl, or do you think they just postulated based on rumors?)

Perhaps this bothered me because I never had a Raggedy Ann or Andy doll, and have never actually seen one in person. Maybe when you own a Raggedy Andy as a child, the truly masculine nature of owning a doll with shorter strands of yarn for hair really promotes – I don't know where I was going with that, it's an inanimate fucking object, it doesn't have a gender. I guess a boy wanting to belong to another boy is actually sort of homonormative, when you think about it. There's certainly some Freudian shit going on here. The animation is well-produced, if a little eccentric at times, but the songs are bad, and, of course, I always feel rattled by an unexpected visit from the gender police.

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(via L. Frank Baum. The New Wizard of Oz. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, | Lot #91090 | Heritage Auctions)

L. Frank Baum. The New Wizard of Oz. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1939]. MGM movie edition. With eight color plates. Publisher's cloth and original dust jacket. Endpapers blank...

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