Elmer Elefantino Fluido, in spite of himself, and gender conspiracy theorists

Reflections by Alessandra Garofalo, teacher and partner de Jonathan's tent

I always surprise myself when the human genius gives birth to axioms and theories like those I read yesterday in a couple of articles and which I will not post the link, for the simple reason that I would like to avoid spreading them.
The gender conspiracy (someone explain to me what it is because I have not yet understood) is rampant. He slips everywhere like the drafts between the windows during the winter, or like the contacts in a novel. And now, in the evil Calderone, we have also added the children's literature.

But the most serious problem is that - unknowingly - for about a decade I was part of this conspiracy and, hear heard, the vast and foolish majority of teachers and parents has let himself be carried on the crest of this voracious tsunami that will lead to the extinction of mankind through the sharp and omnipresent instrument of the pernicious gender theory.

My dear Elmer - colorful elephant (David McKee's children's book) as well as homosexual puppet who looks at me with fake innocence from my daughter's bed - why didn't you tell us that you were gay? Why didn't you get out, just to give us the opportunity not to feed children from all over the world with your subtle message?

Now, finally, thanks to the aforementioned articles, a world has opened up and I realize that the literature for childhood, which I have always considered the receptacle of the deepest philosophy, is all a great rip off:

The pimpa lines up in favor of a no vax campaign and praises tronfia to the natural contraction of exanthematical diseases; of measles in particular.

Federico The Mickey Mouse of Leo Lionni, unequivocally promotes the profession of laziness.

Not to mention Gianni Rodari who, in the history of the rain of the rain incites deforestation and climate change.

I read, in one of these enlightened passages (written by almost damn pen), that since (the elephant) Elmer is colorful like the rainbow -while all the other elephants are gray -only him, which is evidently a gay -Symbol, is happy unlike the hetero -elephant taps sentenced to a life of monotony.
Illuminating, I really say. I wonder if whoever wrote the article is a teacher, or an educator. I'm wondering seriously. And other things I ask myself.

For example, I wonder why, before writing, you don't ask yourself about what or who Elmer is actually and what could be the meaning of its history. Is it possible that that colored checkered elephant others is not that each of us, in its peculiarities, in its strengths and defects, in other words in its uniqueness, in its being Elmer and not the photocopy of another elephant?

And is it possible that these individual peculiarities a child or a child, who tend to identify with the character of those who tell or read, understand them before an adult? Children, contrary to what emerges between the lines of some articles that see them as empty containers to be regretted pre -established and predigite, are much more intuitive than the adult.

Children know that "being different" means many things: it means speaking their own language in a foreign country, not being able to eat some foods, having a darker or clearer skin color, having red hair and blue eyes, belonging to a family that professes a religion that is not the one professed by most of the people of a place, write with the left hand or with the right hand or with both or with a prosthesis, walking with their legs or on a wheelchair. grow with both parents either with only one or with the uncles or with grandparents or with adoptive parents, have a political opinion that diverges from that of the one who is sitting at the desk next to him and who is still our friend, and also - why not - to have a sexual orientation that is not that of most people.

Here, David Mckee's book - who was a genius, I don't give a damn about what he did in his emotional life - he speaks of these things, which concern all of us, and also concern the one who finds in the colored elephant a tendency and a malice that I just don't see.

I turn directly to those who fear the effects of this book. Don't be afraid. You and I are different; Probably not on everything, but on many things yes. And it is not said, as our picturesque friend teaches us, that we must learn to look like. Indeed, we must not do it.

I would therefore like to allow myself to give an unquestioned advice to those who have pointed the finger towards Elmer, towards its author and to all those who profitablely use this book for children: enter a primary school, perhaps in a first or second class, it is drunk with the fears and prejudices that we often build as adults, then organize a circle time with about twenty boys and girls, read the story of Elmer without commissioning it.

Finally, ask each of its small auditors, in turn, what he understood about this book, what he is talking about. Then repeat the same experience with another group of children, perhaps in another school and also in another city. Listen very carefully to the answers they will give them.

It will not find conspiracy. Only so much wisdom.