roxane gay (@rgay) An all women remake of Lord of the Flies makes no sense because... the plot of that book wouldn't happen with all women. pic.twitter.com/BdmIoLN0nBGolding himself has said he focused his book on only boys, and not only girls, for two reasons. The first was that he was once a little boy, not a little girl, and the second was that a “a group of little boys are more like scaled down society than a group of little girls will be. “I think women are foolish to pretend they’re equal to men – they’re far superior, and always have been. McGehee told Deadline that their all-girl version “breaks away from some of the conventions, the ways we think of boys and aggression ...

Source: The Guardian August 31, 2017 04:06 UTC