Don’t stop ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’ from making the rocking world go round

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yank six titles — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “On Beyond Zebra!” — from print in 2021, citing supposedly offensive content in the picture books.And, over the decades, Richard Scarry’s classic children’s books have been retroactively tinkered with time and again by sensitivity readers.

Editors sought to counteract gender stereotypes… by making a policeman bear a policewoman bear, and swapping an illustration of a mom cat pushing a stroller out for a dad cat.Not even “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is safe.

In a new version released by Penguin Publishers, Roald Dahl’s classic now calls Augustus Gloop “enormous” rather than “fat” and features gender-neutral Oompa Loompas.But, in a classic example of censorship backfiring, original editions of Dahl’s book started selling for thousands on eBay following the news, and Dr.

Suess’s blacklisted titles shot to the top of the Amazon charts.Perhaps “Fat Bottomed Girls” will see a resurgence, too.The whole Queen ordeal is pretty laughable considering most of the songs that top the charts today make “Fat Bottomed Girls” sound as innocuous as “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.”As someone who was brought up in the era of YouTube and music streaming, I know firsthand that just about any music you could possibly imagine is available at your fingertips as a kid — whether the censors like it or not.