RL Stine is the author of the Goosebumps series, an introduction to horror for millions of children. Unfortunately, with all of today's PC wokeness, even Goosebumps isn't immune. The issue here, however, is that the author is still alive and never authorized his books to be edited ex post facto.
The publisher appears to have gone back to correct what it deems as offensive language or descriptions, such as "girl stuff" and references to a character's weight. Sorry, but not only are these descriptive, you don't edit after a book has been published so you can spare the imagined feelings of the readers. Books are products of their times, and changing them afterwards deprives us of historical reference in how books were once written. Perhaps today, depending on the author, one may not put in such language, but that has to be up to the author or publisher pre-publication.
It's this kind of nonsense that causes not only eye-rolling at the woke movement, but outright hostility. They aren't just trying to change standards going forward, but to engage in Orwellian revision to pretend such stuff didn't happen previously. This is on the level of Staling editing Trotsky out of his photos.
Some may stupidly celebrate such stuff, but remember that you will not always be in the favored class, and one day you may cringe at the beast you've created when it comes for you. After all, what is seen as civilized today will likely be seen as barbaric tomorrow, and your own work may not survive such "evolved" standards of decency.
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