Making woke news this past week has been the terrible tyranny of the colouring book, as well as white vegans shamelessly culturally–appropriating food. The humble full stop has also been shown up as the patriarchal oppressive symbol it really is. Its use in text messages has the snowflake generation quaking in their kicks from its intimidatory antics while elsewhere people read a full stop where there wasn’t one into an innocent quote on a children’s mug and found a clarion call to domestic abusers.
Colour me shocked
Emanuele Lugli, Assistant Professor of Art History at Stanford has thankfully alerted us all to the dangers lurking in the pages of colouring books, courtesy of...
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