I watched the movie (Angus, thongs and the perfect snogging) for the first time with a group of my friends and def laughed my knickers off!! such a fun movie and really is just so girlhood. mildly problematic but love. the book on the other hand😭😭 not okay!! this book is about 14 year old georgia and it's just her wacky, goofy life in england as she and her friends deal with crushes on boys, beauty, popularity, worrying about being a lesbian etc. now I knew that this was going to be super problematic (was written in 1999) but I thought that it was going to be problematic in a fun way😭😭😭😭 but as you can see from the next slide, an unbelievable amount of sa 😭😭 like genuinely unbelievable amount that is just brushed off so easily. i get that this was a different time but damn!! this is a children's book!!! and these are only the instances of sa that happen to the main character!!! I can definitely see the appeal in something like this and I'm not saying that every children's book needs to be perfect and obviously this was written a while ago, but this amount of sexual assault in a children's book that goes unaddressed is actually harmful. if you want to read a 20-25ish old children's book that has these vibes and is still problematic but in a fun way, I would recommend the princess diaries series! 1.75 stars