I remember being actively annoyed at the more accommodating, boy-happy George of the relaunched books.
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(Though I concede that you, as a reader, are entitled to disagree with that…and be wrong.)Īnd yet, the ’90s books tried to revise her, trading her “boy” haircut for “short, curly, dark-brown hair was full of bounce” and giving her more a more fixed interest in dating and dudes. But the one interpretation of George I still do not buy is a heterosexual cis woman. You construct the meaning as you read, and I buy all of those. She dates men, if casually and mostly off-page, so she could be bisexual. She hated being called by a feminine name, and she’s so frequently described as “boyish” and wearing “simple clothes” that she could also easily be read as a trans man, or genderqueer. Now, you can read George in a variety of ways. In The Secret in The Old Attic, Nancy actually warns her, “If you have much more hair cut off, people will think you’re a boy.” George particularly hates when people try to modify her name to femme it up: “Woe to the person who called…Georgiana or some other feminization of her name!” Her body language is lively and aggressive she’s mouthy and forever falling over hedges and losing things.īut George wasn’t just adventurous and tomboyish she was butch. Her hair was dark, her face handsomely pert.” She was the muscle of the three, shouting things like “Look at my brawn!” and poo-pooing at Bess whenever she got too nervous about an investigation. George was the grumpy one with the short haircut (my future epitaph), described in The Secret of the Wooden Lady as being “as boyish as her name. I wanted to be Nancy, but I related most to George. Nancy was pretty, and levelheaded, and cool. George was always my favorite of the Nancy Drew trio growing up, because while Nancy was a fellow redhead (or “titian-haired,” as they so quaintly wrote it) and therefore my natural favorite, she wasn’t an awkward, Anne of Green Gables redhead.
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But when they relaunched the series for the ’80s and ’80s, her gender presentation was suddenly a whole lot more heteronormative.Ĭan we instead keep the queerness, please? Please get rid of the harmful ’30s-’50s artifacts – the absence of people of color, the “jokes” about Bess’s body and relationship to food, the hang-ups around getting dates – but there’s one retroelement I’m hoping they keep. In the older books, George is…definitely not a cis heterosexual. I have to assume, having grown up reading the Nancy Drew books, that these “two best friends from childhood” will be George and Bess – and here’s where I’m hoping the TV series doesn’t make the same mistake that the books did. In need of help, she turns to her two best friends from childhood, who were the inspiration for all those books, and the women who have a real axe to grind about the way their supposed best friend chose to portray them all those years ago.” According to Variety, the new imagining will take a bit of a Castle spin and “follow the author of the most famous female teen detective book series who is thrust into a real-life murder mystery. Though CBS was originally slated to adapt this iconic girl detective series for TV, NBC has picked it up and taken it in a new direction. The Nancy Drew reboot has been – well, rebooted.
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