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Originally Posted by andyh2000
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From a behind-the-paywall Telegraph story:
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One of Dahl’s most popular lines from The Twits is: “You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams.” It has been edited to take out the “double chin”.
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Here, the bowdlerizer did the opposite of what your link alleges — the bowdlerizer removed a passage suggesting we NOT fat-shame.
I get that the passage also suggests a double-chin might not be generally seen as positive. Sadly, heavy children already sense this, and bowdlerization can do nothing to change that.