EP 14 - Peter Pan (1953): Growing Up, Gender Roles, Queer Pirates, and Little Mothers

In this episode, we discuss:
- racism, sexism, and the white male fantasy in the Edwardian boy's adventure story,
- the depiction of childhood as the time in your life that you can act however you like without regard to the consequences your actions have for other people,
- the accidental, backwards subversiveness of the game played by the Indigenous characters and the Lost Boys,
- the subversive potential of Smee as the pirates' mother,
- how much we love Captain Hook as campy, theatrical dandy, and
- the sudden and arbitrary importance of appearing honourable in the last 20 minutes of the movie.