"Jeopardy!" champion Amy Schneider has spoken about how the transformation from Tip to Ozma helped her in giving her a model for her life journey as a transgender person. Reading this chapter helps me understand why.
Yet another example of how Baum was ahead of his time...
When I read this book as probably an 8 or 9 year old boy, I identified completely with Tip. So, when I read this: ";I!” cried Tip, in amazement. “Why, I’m no Princess Ozma—I’m not a girl,'" I had not seen it coming. I had no idea what to think, because right up until then I had thought I was Tip. Even now, I think that shocked me more than anything I have read in literature since then. Of course, back in the late 1950s, none of us had ever heard of such a thing as transgender. When Disney made Return to Oz, I was incredibly disappointed when it eliminated Tip from the story, as there was no way Disney wanted to deal with gender dysphoria. Now that attitudes have broadly changed about such things, it seems like this would be a good time to film a version of the second book that is true to the original story. As David Perlmutter mentions, it could send a very affirming message to a significant and currently somewhat besieged portion of the population.
"Jeopardy!" champion Amy Schneider has spoken about how the transformation from Tip to Ozma helped her in giving her a model for her life journey as a transgender person. Reading this chapter helps me understand why.
Yet another example of how Baum was ahead of his time...
Tada! First time readers, did you see this coming?
Nope.
Only from when we learned Mombi had somehow hidden Ozma did I suspect it
I read 'em out of order, so I knew, unfortunately.
When I read this book as probably an 8 or 9 year old boy, I identified completely with Tip. So, when I read this: ";I!” cried Tip, in amazement. “Why, I’m no Princess Ozma—I’m not a girl,'" I had not seen it coming. I had no idea what to think, because right up until then I had thought I was Tip. Even now, I think that shocked me more than anything I have read in literature since then. Of course, back in the late 1950s, none of us had ever heard of such a thing as transgender. When Disney made Return to Oz, I was incredibly disappointed when it eliminated Tip from the story, as there was no way Disney wanted to deal with gender dysphoria. Now that attitudes have broadly changed about such things, it seems like this would be a good time to film a version of the second book that is true to the original story. As David Perlmutter mentions, it could send a very affirming message to a significant and currently somewhat besieged portion of the population.
I wish transition worked by chanting spells around a fire