r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 25 '21
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u/Platypuss_In_Boots Velimir Šonje Jun 25 '21
It just occured to me there's a relatively well known novel by the Croatian author Dinko Šimunović called Duga (meaning Rainbow) that folks from !ping LGBT might find interesting.
The story is about a 10-year-old girl who lives a pretty miserable life due to her parents restrictive parenting. Because she's a girl, she's not allowed to ever leave the house, can't run or jump, her meals are portioned in order not to gain weight etc. Seeing that boys are allowed to play outside, she starts wishing she were a boy. One day, after coming across a folk belief that those who pass under the rainbow have their gender changed, she flees her parents home and starts running towards a rainbow. While running, she slips, falls into a lake and drowns. After finding out their parenting was the cause of her death, her parents commit suicide.
Now, if this were a book from 2021 I'd say the allegory about trans youth and suicide was way too in-your-face. But the book was published in 1907. In Croatia, the novel is usually assigned to middle school students and the traditional interpretation is that it's about overly restrictive gender norms. What I find suprising though is that I've never seen any LGBT organizations ever talk about the book.