[Argh I always accidentally post anonymous and then remember.] ""Sean" is more or less a moron (or, to be more fair, a privileged idiot), so he manages to screw up the lives of Arrietty and her family but good in trying to "help" and "protect" them (why he thinks they need his help and protection? Because they're smaller and weaker than he is, obviously!), no thanks to the inexplicably evil creeper housekeeper Hara."
I'm now going to take the opportunity to pimp out TH White's _Mistress Masham's Repose_ again because this is basically the theme: that's exactly what the "big" child does to the little people in MMR, but then she is CALLED ON IT TOTALLY and learns stuff abut autonomy and respect and how people can have dignity and self-agency even if they are smaller than you and talk funny.
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Date: 2012-02-22 19:57 (UTC)""Sean" is more or less a moron (or, to be more fair, a privileged idiot), so he manages to screw up the lives of Arrietty and her family but good in trying to "help" and "protect" them (why he thinks they need his help and protection? Because they're smaller and weaker than he is, obviously!), no thanks to the inexplicably evil creeper housekeeper Hara."
I'm now going to take the opportunity to pimp out TH White's _Mistress Masham's Repose_ again because this is basically the theme: that's exactly what the "big" child does to the little people in MMR, but then she is CALLED ON IT TOTALLY and learns stuff abut autonomy and respect and how people can have dignity and self-agency even if they are smaller than you and talk funny.