Does not follow.
A perfect example of poor parenting might be allowing your children to go hungry so you can go out partying. A parent spending time reading to their child and happening to changing the gender of a protagonist? Doesn’t even break the top million examples of poor parenting, even were I to concede that it’s on balance, a negative parenting example rather than a positive, which you have yet to convince me of. I think if you were in a family court, and claimed somebody was a poor parent, and they asked you to give a good example of it, and you cited, “She read the child the Hobbit, and changed Bilbo into a girl,” you would be laughed out of there.
Oh, well, then, case closed! Your local expert in literature has spoken, thinks it’s abhorrent and stupid, therefore we don’t need to have the discussion!
I don’t see this happening anywhere this situation. Unless… do you actually think that ‘the needs of the many’ is ‘Bilbo must be a man in all tellings of this story, everywhere’? The world demands everybody continue to affirm Bilbo is a male? If you make Bilbo a girl when reading to your child, other children around the world will know, and cry?
Because that would be a perfect example of cah-razy. You must think Peter Jackson’s a menace to society, with all the changes he’s made to the source material when he retold it for the world.
Or maybe you just think that your right to not have gender roles challenged after 40 years on this Earth is more important than anything else, and you personally being hurt outweighs any benefit a child might get. But I hope not, because then you’d just be a $@!$.
