All of us are familiar with A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. We remember Scrooge, and him being visited by three ghosts Christmas eve. We know how stingy and miserly he was. We know of Tiny Tim and his crutches. Most of all, we know it is a redemption story, meant to give Scrooge one more chance at experiencing a humanity he had left behind.
But what if uncle Scrooge was not a man, but aunt Scrooge, a woman? Would the story be any different? Using A Christmas Carol, the author reconstruct the story and tells it the same way Dickens did, but this time using a female protagonist. In our society today, having a woman run a corporation, own property in her own name, and fall in love with another woman does not seem out of place. The fact that the story flows without any issues demonstrates that the limitations society has historically placed on gender are simply irrelevant, and that our world would have been a much better place had women been included in all ranks of society much earlier.
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