Tuesday, July 08, 2025

So, I guess a classmate of Anne Frank's invented a sexist game.

"Guess Who’s sexist? Classic board game’s gender bias leaves six-year-old fuming"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/guess-who-s-sexist-classic-board-game-s-gender-bias-leaves-sixyearold-fuming-8324067.html

And every time he makes a snarky comment about Anne Frank in his book...

"We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates by Theo Coster"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11450811-we-all-wore-stars

I remember that he not only invented a sexist game after the war, but he was also playing in a creek with an SS officer while she was suffering just because he was able to "fit in" better with a guy like that than she ever would have been able to.

Or I guess they went fishing in a canal, actually.

"It was Hendriks who took me along one day to the Apeldoorn Canal to go fishing with a hand grenade. It goes without saying that I was never totally at ease with him, but at the same time, I was also excited to spend some time with that somewhat sinister character. At home, they didn't make an issue of my being with him; after all, we didn't have any choice. It was wise to be on good terms with him, and besides, it made a difference for us that Hendriks was convinced the war was a lost cause for the Germans."

Page 36 -37

"We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates by Theo Coster"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11450811-we-all-wore-stars

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