The Childish Cruelty of Peter Pan

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  @TheTaleFoundry · 1 year ago · pinned

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  @atlantic85 · 1 year ago

  “I can do no wrong. For I do not know what it is.”

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  @TannerJ07 · 1 year ago (edited)

  &quot;I won&apos;t ruin your childhood I promise&quot;<br><b>proceeds to ruin the meaning of childhood</b>

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  @lightupthefight · 1 year ago

  it&apos;s interesting that &quot;when you grow up, your heart dies&quot; and &quot;growing up means growing a heart&quot; can both be equally true.<br>growing from childhood into adolescence and young adulthood involves growing a heart, but growing too far into adulthood and forgetting your childhood causes your heart to die.<br>what a strange world, eh?

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  @catherineescobar3123 · 1 year ago

  Agatha Christie has a quote I think of about this cruelty:<br><br>“Youth is crude, youth is strong, youth is powerful-yes, and cruel! And one thing more-youth is vulnerable.”

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  @henryph__am · 1 year ago

  Ask someone who’s bullied as a kid and they’ll tell you how cruel kids can be

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  @YukoValis · 1 year ago

  In the words of Sonic from Sonic Boom: &quot;I can&apos;t be swimming around with a bunch of 5 year olds. They can be so cruel when they sense weakness&quot;

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  @analogsergal · 1 year ago

  KIDS ARE CRUEL, JACK! AND I AM VERY IN TOUCH WITH MY INNER CHILD

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  @GrateGuardian · 1 year ago

  I always thought you always stay the same in Neverland, realising that Peter could just control his age is even more bizarre than what I thought it really was.

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  @OnyxQuill4583 · 1 year ago

  &quot;The heartlessness of children.&quot;<br><br>Empathy is a learned trait.

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  @dionettaeon · 1 year ago

  Peter Pan &quot;thinning out&quot; the lost boys in the original was the first time I&apos;d heard of his darker side, but in retrospect, that side of him had clear signs even in the Disney version. He clearly has some selfish tendencies, engages in rough play and sometimes bullying behavior, and those are minor compared to some of the other things he&apos;s done. For one, he cut off Captain Hook&apos;s hand and seemingly has no shred of remorse over it. But more importantly, he absolutely <i>revels</i> in the idea of Hook being eaten by the crocodile, later a giant octopus in the sequel, even hammering the point by repeatedly referring to him as a codfish.

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  @johnpett1955 · 1 year ago (edited)

  The way I see it, Peter Pan was meant to be this morally grey character that represents the good and bad about childhood.<br><br>There are many things about being a kid worth holding on to, but there&apos;s also a lot of growth and maturity that you miss out on if you don&apos;t grow up.<br><br>We must embrace our inner child without letting it be the dominant force in our lives.<br><br>I think Hollywood has definitely forgotten about that side of the story

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