Title: Incredibly disturbing sexist fable.
Review: This enormously popular book has a boy taking and taking and taking from a tree as he grows up, until he has killed the tree to make his house, and as an old man is reduced to sitting on its stump. And the tree is happy to have him sit on it?If the tree weren't always referred to as female ("she" "her"), this would be an upsetting enough book, suggesting that nature is there to take from without giving back. But since the tree is written as a woman, the moral is that it's okay to take and take and take from a woman to the point of destroying her, and she's supposed to be happy if you eventually come back to her when you can't enjoy life's other pleasures.Am I the only one who finds this incredibly disturbing in a children's book?
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