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My what a boring media landscape it would be if all characters were goodie little “Mary Poppins” types.

Just because a minority wrongly take inspiration from an ill behaved character is no reason to temper a fictional character actions. Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid lead to an increase in bank and train robberies?

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I think that arguably Mary Poppins was so popular because she was incredibly mean and acerbic in the books (if memory serves from reading them as a kid.)

The movie Disnified the character just like so many Grimms tales.

> Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid lead to an increase in bank and train robberies?

Doing petty crime and being misogynistic piece of shit is easier than robbing a bank.

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