# What to do about hijacks? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 9, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-about-hijacks/979509 "2023-02-09T04:03:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 48
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-about-hijacks/979509/48 "2023-02-10T13:50:06Z")
I thought of an example: this thread > [@Classic Books Which Live Up To Their Reputation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-books-which-live-up-to-their-reputation/976763): > > Many voluminous classic books have aged badly, are simply not worth the time, are unreadable or never deserved the reputation won when there were fewer alternatives and less knowledge and variety. Inspired by The Atlantic article below, what is an old classic book others may not know about which you think is still timely, entertaining or meaningful? sparked this subdiscussion > [@Classic Books Which Live Up To Their Reputation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-books-which-live-up-to-their-reputation/976763/117): > > “Tarnished” may have been the wrong word. But ISTM that over the past decade or so—certainly since Le Guin’s Cheek by Jowl was published in 2009—there has definitely been a more widespread awareness that the apparent “naturalism” of Watership Down, and its repeated appeals to Lockley’s nonfiction study of rabbits to sound more authoritative, are misleading. It’s part of a general increased recognition of [longstanding sexist bias in the study of animal behavior,](https://www.wired.com/story/sexist-pseudoscience-biology/) where human gender stereotypes c… which started out being relevant to “Watership Downs”, but that subdiscussion took on a life of its own and I moved it to > [@Sex Roles in other Animals](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-roles-in-other-animals/977848): > > I’ve always been bugged by lionesses in prides doing all the hunting, and the males muscling in on dinner without having done a lick of work. Lioness Lib!!! Which generated a moderate amount of discussion after the move. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-about-hijacks/979509)._